Susan Chandler

Lands' End Inc. was hardly announcing good news this week. The Dodgeville, Wis.-based catalog company said its 1998 earnings were off 51 percent, to $31.2 million from $64.2 million in...

It's been a long time, years in fact, since color dominated the fashion scene. And that's been a major source of industry malaise, according to fashion consultant David Wolfe of...

At 53 calories, the Frango Mint never has been substantial enough to symbolize Chicago. A mere dessert mint, it has always followed the city's main-course institutions, the big buildings, pan...

Walgreen Co., the world's largest drugstore chain, isn't used to being behind the curve. Drive-through pharmacies? The Deerfield-based retailer has bunches of them. St. John's wort, gingko biloba and other...

City bureaucrats charged with finding retailers to fill the long-vacant Block 37 have a mental block. They have decided that only an upscale department store will help return State Street...

Costco Companies Inc. is poised to double its presence in the Chicago area with stores on the city's North Side and in Northbrook. The Issaquah, Wash.-based company is buying an...

Ask a bunch of advertising jocks to name the world's greatest marketing companies, and some names are certain to come up: Coca-Cola Co., Nike Inc. and McDonald's Corp. Yet those...

It was a traveler's nightmare Wednesday for Gloria Wittig, her husband and two daughters. The Milwaukee family was planning to fly from Chicago to London on Wednesday on American Airlines,...

The folks who handle leasing at Urban Retail Properties Co. must be thinking the former Henri Bendel's space in the 900 N. Michigan Ave. building is jinxed. There haven't been...

If you haven't noticed, candles are one of the hottest New Age retailing trends around. With their overtones of "aromatherapy" and romance, wax votives, columns and floaters are being pushed...