Genevieve Buck

What's with Montgomery Ward? Perhaps now that Montgomery Ward Holding Corp. has had its first shareholders annual meeting with new management aboard, Roger Goddu may come forward and talk openly...

Target continues to be the powerhouse and growth vehicle for Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson Corp. The discount stores contributed more than 70 percent of the retailer's $25.4 billion in revenues in...

Furniture retailers will probably not be thrilled to hear that J.C. Penney Co. will have four free-standing suburban home furnishings stores open by spring of 1998. The stores will be...

Every annual meeting has at least one shareholder who seems to spend the entire year lining up thorny or goofy questions that will garner personal attention. One such gadfly made...

As clues trickled in Monday on the killing of real estate tycoon Lee Miglin, the Gold Coast murder mystery was heavier on question marks than answers. Consider some of the...

Retailers' April sales "will be muted, at best," predicts Kurt Barnard, president and publisher of Barnard's Retail Marketing Report and a consultant to numerous retailers. Major retail chains report their...

If Saks Holdings Inc., parent of Saks Fifth Avenue stores, does buy Barney's Inc., parent of Barneys New York stores, will the stores themselves be named Saks Fifth Avenue/Barneys New...

Sears, Roebuck and Co. knew it should stop dunning bankrupt credit-card holders, but kept at it despite a judge's warnings, court records show. And Sears stopped filing debt repayment agreements...

Whenever sweatshop issues arise, the tendency is to think they affect high-profile apparel companies elsewhere--generally on the East or West Coasts. But every manufacturer that produces even a small portion...

Whatever happened to sweatshops? They're still there. They've occasionally been the subject of attention, with Nike Inc. a particular target. But sweatshops haven't been in the headlines as they once...