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“Doing nothing wasn’t an option”: M.J. Bale CEO Matt Jensen

Inside Retail

Bale in 2009, some of the challenges you faced from the outset, and how you got the business off the ground during those early stages? Matt Jensen: It was a difficult market environment when we launched back in September 2009, given it was the back end of the GFC. But I can’t remember it being too challenging.

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How Maison Francis Kurkdjian built a brand around the Picasso of fragrance

Inside Retail

Born of a collaboration in 2009 between Marc Chaya and perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, Maison Francis Kurkdjian has become a major player in the luxe fragrance industry, and is sold across more than 700 locations worldwide. Gradually, Francis and I were more and more often thinking about creating a fragrance house together.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

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cities,” says Steve Kaufman, former Editor-in-Chief of VMSD from 1998 until 2009. In sharp contrast to the harsh realities of the Depression, the 1930s was the most elegant period in Hollywood’s history. Economic expansion was fueled by a new affluence. And its editor was a sometimes-writer named L.