George Lazarus

This may be a grim reminder to those many executives in Corporate America finding their companies swallowed up. At the Bannockburn headquarters of Favorite Brands International, a 14-person transition team...

The bubble is far from bursting over the Pokemon craze as licensing deals proliferate, fueled by the video game, the movie, the enormous hype and yet another flick due out...

Designer eye wear is strictly in the eyes of the beholder. Ask a dozen people what they're wearing, and you'll hear about 13 different designers. Everybody, it seems, is into...

Kellogg has been on top of the heap of the U.S. ready-to-eat cereal market for so long that unseating it as No. 1 might be cause for rejoicing or outright...

Kemper Insurance Cos. rode its cavalry on TV for a quarter century, promoting the reliability of its agents. But last April the cavalry disappeared from the tube. Now, Kemper has...

A warm winter always gives furriers the chills, so retailers around town are anxiously awaiting a temperature plunge, because 70 to 80 percent of furs are sold from November to...

Dutch confectioner Van Melle's U.S. operation--a firm best known for its Mentos--is wrapping up a deal to acquire the lease and manufacturing assets of Candy Tech in Buffalo Grove. Also...

Relationships--personal and corporate--often dictate why a blue-chip ad account will wind up with one agency or another. However, periodically, a client believed leaning toward one or two agencies will pick...

Admittedly, drug stores are not shopped for orange juice. More likely, if you forgot OJ at the supermarket and just happen to pick up a prescription at the drug store,...

As if the Betty Crocker brand doesn't generate enough fruit-snacks business, its parent General Mills has latched on to Pokemon as a new banner in that category. The new Pokemon...