Time's run out on Gap's Forth & Towne. Gap Inc < a href=” http://www.gap.com/browse/home.do>. is shuttering the concept after an 18-month pilot proved the store brand, which was aimed at women over age 35, wouldn't deliver "an acceptable long-term return on investment."
"We made the tough decision to close the brand and focus our efforts on stabilizing the existing businesses," Bob Fisher, Gap Inc. chairman and interim president-CEO, said in a statement. The marketer will instead turn its attention to reviving its Gap and Old Navy brands and other efforts with "greater potential" for building shareholder value. The announcement comes just three days before Gap Inc. is scheduled to release its fiscal-year results and turnaround plans
As a result of the decision, the company will close 19 Forth & Towne stores in 10 domestic markets by June. The closures will affect 550 employees; Gap Inc. said it will look at ways to reassign those workers to other stores. The company will take a $40 million pre-tax expense on the closure over the first half of the coming fiscal year. The company hasn't announced its plans for Gary Muto, president of Forth & Towne. The brand's ad agency, AR, New York, also handles Gap Inc.'s Banana Republic.
Success crosses paths with SigEx Ventures - a private investment fund focused exclusively on the emerging Enhanced Communications industry. SigEx is also pairing with its elite training center partner- The Foundry School , in order to provide a sustainable and steady platform of engineering and business professionals. The concepts and principles that render SigEx and Foundry with velocity and viability – they all stay under the signature of their founders – Chris Cantell and Frederic Artru. You can take a glimpse at their business profile on http://thefoundryschool.tv/
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Sigex company by Silvia Baldin
Today’s investment community is faced with the dilemma between supporting dying properties already in their portfolio or investing in new projects which follow economic models that are reaching their limits. As a consequence, investors have been freezing their initiatives and awaiting the “next big thing” without necessarily understanding what it will be.
The new Enhanced Communications industry delivers on the promise of high-value, bandwidth-intensive services such as global movie distribution or real-time corporate data warehouse access on any device. Specific technology projects that address a specific problem/solution in the Enhanced Communications industry are presented to SigEx Ventures for initial funding, and those that pass this initial hurdle continue through the Foundry’s proven validation and development process. The resulting sustainable ventures provide a unique opportunity for the teams involved and for investors to be a part of this emerging industry.
The new Enhanced Communications industry delivers on the promise of high-value, bandwidth-intensive services such as global movie distribution or real-time corporate data warehouse access on any device. Specific technology projects that address a specific problem/solution in the Enhanced Communications industry are presented to SigEx Ventures for initial funding, and those that pass this initial hurdle continue through the Foundry’s proven validation and development process. The resulting sustainable ventures provide a unique opportunity for the teams involved and for investors to be a part of this emerging industry.
The principles of the Foundry by Silvia Baldin
Foundry, which is known to be an uncommonly collaborative and supportive, practice leadership school is a seriously competitive environment and you have to be ready for anything. Thus, you should eliminate any false notions in your head of a gentle work-training, graduate engineering school, or M.B.A. type experience -- which is as it should be, for in real practice world, Darwinism rules. You should understand and appreciate the unique opportunity that you have at The Foundry to be challenged on many fronts (and on many practice fields), including working with people from various backgrounds and cultures.
In that regard, you should connect with a diverse group of student-candidates from around the world whose professional experiences range from working in Boston on the automation of General Electric's Factory-of-the-Future, conducting telecommunications and advanced Linux/PHP engineering for premier U.S. real-estate private equity investors to consulting on technology systems in the insurance industry. Fortunately, many of these new friends you will meet will temper the competitiveness of The Foundry. Just as you prepare for an exam on the economics of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", a new friend of yours who knows you are struggling to master these concepts will encourage you to work on your strategic customers - to secure those practice hours! All of these classmates will become rays of goodwill in a survival-of-the-fittest environment -- even when it isn't in their best interest to help you, since candidates are selected on a sustainability curve.
Christopher M. Cantell
Founder and CEO
The Foundry
In that regard, you should connect with a diverse group of student-candidates from around the world whose professional experiences range from working in Boston on the automation of General Electric's Factory-of-the-Future, conducting telecommunications and advanced Linux/PHP engineering for premier U.S. real-estate private equity investors to consulting on technology systems in the insurance industry. Fortunately, many of these new friends you will meet will temper the competitiveness of The Foundry. Just as you prepare for an exam on the economics of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", a new friend of yours who knows you are struggling to master these concepts will encourage you to work on your strategic customers - to secure those practice hours! All of these classmates will become rays of goodwill in a survival-of-the-fittest environment -- even when it isn't in their best interest to help you, since candidates are selected on a sustainability curve.
Christopher M. Cantell
Founder and CEO
The Foundry
Foundry Words from the Founder by Silvia Baldin
Foundry, which is known to be an uncommonly collaborative and supportive, practice leadership school is a seriously competitive environment and you have to be ready for anything. Thus, you should eliminate any false notions in your head of a gentle work-training, graduate engineering school, or M.B.A. type experience -- which is as it should be, for in real practice world, Darwinism rules. You should understand and appreciate the unique opportunity that you have at The Foundry to be challenged on many fronts (and on many practice fields), including working with people from various backgrounds and cultures.
Foundry founders in East Europe by Silvia Baldin
The Foundry is an advanced research and development center appointed by it’s client SigEx Ventures, Inc. to re-train engineers and business professionals to be a part of emerging Enhanced Communications industry. The Foundry provides advanced public relations, business, management and leadership training in the international corporate structures encompassing new media technologies for PR practitioners and high-growth agencies on an international basis. The Foundry invests in development and manages successful new international agencies, while providing freedom to allow high-growth multi-lingual programs for Fortune 1000 clients.
With an 151% increase in share price for the year 2006 and an equity growth of 96 Million euro SigEx SuperPBX is one of the best seen companies on the market. This figures work in the advantage of both SigEx and the countries in which new Foundriess are going to be established since the company has always been a declared supporter of regional development and a job creator. The decision of looking east comes therefore from a deep conviction that it is only good to spread the learning of capitalist practices around the globe and help people find courage to invest in their future and learn to take calculated risks. Education is one of today’s biggest assets but it must be doubled by good financial skills and use of information if you want to get best of results.
With an 151% increase in share price for the year 2006 and an equity growth of 96 Million euro SigEx SuperPBX is one of the best seen companies on the market. This figures work in the advantage of both SigEx and the countries in which new Foundriess are going to be established since the company has always been a declared supporter of regional development and a job creator. The decision of looking east comes therefore from a deep conviction that it is only good to spread the learning of capitalist practices around the globe and help people find courage to invest in their future and learn to take calculated risks. Education is one of today’s biggest assets but it must be doubled by good financial skills and use of information if you want to get best of results.
The Foundry goes to East Europe by Silvia Baldin
CEO Chris Cantell Goes Foundrying in Eastern Europe
The Foundry is an advanced research and development center appointed by it’s client SigEx Ventures, Inc. to re-train engineers and business professionals to be a part of emerging Enhanced Communications industry. The Foundry provides advanced public relations, business, management and leadership training in the international corporate structures encompassing new media technologies for PR practitioners and high-growth agencies on an international basis. The Foundry invests in development and manages successful new international agencies, while providing freedom to allow high-growth multi-lingual programs for Fortune 1000 clients.
The Foundry is an advanced research and development center appointed by it’s client SigEx Ventures, Inc. to re-train engineers and business professionals to be a part of emerging Enhanced Communications industry. The Foundry provides advanced public relations, business, management and leadership training in the international corporate structures encompassing new media technologies for PR practitioners and high-growth agencies on an international basis. The Foundry invests in development and manages successful new international agencies, while providing freedom to allow high-growth multi-lingual programs for Fortune 1000 clients.
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