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Charivari (store)
Charivari was a chain of clothing stores in New York City. Its first store opened in 1967 and had grew to have six stores and finally closed in 1998. It is known for championing avant-garde fashion designers in the 1980s. Its rise to prominence in fashion coincided with the gentrification of its neighbourhood, Manhattan's Upper West Side. History The Charivari stores were founded by Jon Weiser, his mother Selma and his sister Barbara Weiser in 1967. They ran the stores together. Charivari was the first high-fashion store in the Upper West Side. In 1976, the men's store relocated across the street. That year, Esquire magazine ran a feature about America's 8 top stores and Charivari was picked for New York. During the 1970s and 1980s the store grew from one to five locations (four were on the Upper West Side, there was a store on West 57 and a sixth location on the Upper East Side was added in 1992). The Upper West Side locations were designed by Alan J. Buchsbaum. Writing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |