Mattie & all,
finally some news & stock price action in DK.
DK closed at 16.125 (up 10%)
NEW YORK, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- DKNY Kids, the label that speaks an
international language of style, now has an international spokesperson: Tara
Lipinski, the 1997 World and U.S. Champion Figure Skater. The popular athlete
will represent DKNY Kids in a myriad of promotional contexts, most notably in
personal appearances at stores throughout the world.
"With her passion, dedication and discipline, Tara is a great role model
for kids everywhere. She proves that with hard work dreams come true," says
Donna Karan, chief designer and chairman of Donna Karan International, the
parent company of DKNY. "Tara embodies everything that DKNY Kids is about:
spirit, energy, creativity, individual expression. We couldn't ask for a
better spokesperson."
The admiration is mutual. "I am so lucky to be working with DKNY," says
Lipinski, who wears DKNY sportswear and activewear in her personal life as
well as when she's training. "The DKNY Active and DKNY Kids lines provide
clothes that are not only perfect for training, but fit my lifestyle as well.
Having the chance to meet Donna Karan, who is such an amazing woman, was a
thrill I will not soon forget!" The 15-year-old skater will also pack a DKNY
wardrobe when she heads to Nagano, Japan to compete in the 1998 Olympic Winter
Games.
In 1997, Lipinski became the youngest World and United States figure
skating champion in the sport's history, winning both titles at age 14. As a
new season approaches, she is a favorite to become the seventh American female
to win the Olympic skating gold medal since the debut of the Winter Games in
1924. Lipinski, whose hometown is Sugar Land, Texas, started rollerskating at
age three, winning a regional championship at age five. A year later she
turned to the ice and the rest, as they say, is history.
Launched in 1989, DKNY set a new direction for sportswear in America with
user-friendly designer clothes and accessories that encompass a total
lifestyle, going from day to evening, workday to weekend. 1992 saw the
introduction of DKNY Mens, which mirrored the contemporary approach of its
women's counterpart as well as DKNY Kids, which includes lines for both boys
and girls. To accommodate its spiraling womenswear growth, in 1996 the DKNY
brand segmented into four labels: D, a forward designer collection, DKNY,
DKNY Classic and DKNY Active. DKNY Jeans, dubbed The Official Uniform of New
York, debuts in Spring 1998 with separate collections for men and women.
SOURCE Donna Karan New York
CONTACT: Christy Hood, 212-789-1627, or Sherrie Krantz, 212-768-5906,
both of DKNY
There's more...
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- From 1994 to 1996, total revenues
generated by Working Woman's Top 50 Women-Owned Businesses jumped more than
$14 billion. Seven companies cracked the billion-dollar mark for the first
time.
Back in 1992, when Working Woman started the Top 50, there was not a
single billion-dollar-plus business owned by a woman.
Working Woman also points out that an important trend that has emerged
this year is that the Top 50 Women-Owned Businesses are using cutting-edge
technology to grow the businesses and are actively pursuing global markets.
Some of the Top 50, such as Jockey, Rodale, and Tootsie Roll, already have
strong international sales and others, like Donna Karan and Printpack, are
moving in that direction.
The Working Woman Top 50 Women Business Owners awards program celebrates
the achievement of America's most dynamic women entrepreneurs. Each year,
Working Woman identifies the hottest woman-owned companies and ranks them by
annual sales revenues. The report is exclusively detailed in Working Woman's
Top 50 Business Owners issue in October.
On Wednesday, October 8, 1997, representatives of the Top 50 will gather
in New York City at the Empire Room or the Waldorf-Astoria for an awards
luncheon and program. Prior to the luncheon a program, "Are We Really in a
New Economy?" will be presented by Merrill Lynch in the Basildon Room of the
Waldorf-Astoria. Expected to attend the luncheon in addition to
representatives of the Top 50 Woman-Owned Businesses, will be alumni Top 50
Women Business Owners, members of other women business associations, and high
school students from Independent Means that teaches young women the basics of
business ownership. Press will be invited to interview representatives of the
Top 50 at 11:30 a.m. and attend the luncheon program.
Martha Ingram, Chair of Ingram Industries in Nashville with $11.5 billion
sales is number one on the Top 50 list. The other Top 50 billion-dollar sales
companies and their women owners, are Loida Nicolas Lewis, TLC Beatrice
International; Marian Ilitch, Little Caesar Enterprises; Maggie Hardy Magerko,
84 Lumber; Lynda Resnick, Roll International; Antonia Axson Johnson, Axel
Johnson Group; and Linda Wachner, Warnaco Group.
The Top 50 Women-Owned Businesses are:
1) Martha Ingram, Ingram Industries
2) Loida Nicolas Lewis, TLC Beatrice International
3) Marian Ilitch, Little Caesar Enterprises
4) Maggie Hardy Magerko, 84 Lumber
5) Lynda Resnick, Roll International
6) Antonia Axson Johnson, Axel Johnson Group
7) Linda Wachner, Warnaco Group
8) Liz Minyard, Minyard Food Stores
9) Gay Love, Printpack
10) Donna Karan, Donna Karan International
11) Ardath Rodale, Rodale Press
12) Christine Liang, ASI
13) Donna Wolf Steigerwaldt, Jockey International
14) Helen Copley, The Copley Press
15) Jenny Craig, Jenny Craig
16) Irma Elder, Troy Motors
17) Patricia Gallup, PC Connection
18) Barbara Levy Kipper, Chas. Levy Company
19) Jane O'Dell, Westfall-O'Dell, Transportation Services
20) Ellen Gordon, Tootsie Roll Industries
21) Annabelle Lundy Fetterman, Lundy Packing
22) Doris Christopher, Pampered Chef
23) Gertrude Boyle, Columbia Sportswear
24) Ebba Hoffman and Sharon Hoffman Avent, Smead Manufacturing
25) Rachelle Friedman, J&R Music and Computer World
26) Kathy Prasnicki Lehne, Sun Coast Resources
27) Pleasant Rowland, Pleasant Company
28) Nanci Mackenzie, US Gas Transportation
29) Marta Weinstein, Logistix
30) Lillian Vernon, Lillian Vernon
31) Lois Rust, Rose Acre Farms
32) Helen Jo Whitsell, Copeland Lumber Yards
33) Ann McIlrath Drake, DSC Logistics
34) Carole Little, California Fashion Industries
35) Josephine Chaus, Bernard Chaus
36) Pamela Aguirre, Mexican Industries
37) Marilyn Marks, Dorsey Trailers
38) Sondra Healy, Turtle Wax
39) Jessica McClintock, Jessica McClintock
40) Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Entertainment Group
41) Aya Azrielant, Andin International
42) Suzanne Millard, Turtle & Hughes
43) Marcy Carsey, Carsey-Warner
44) Gail Duncan-Campagne, Jerome-Duncan Ford
45) Pamela Lopker, QAD
46) Kathryn Hach-Darrow, Hach Company
47) Valli Benesch, Fritzi California
48) Harriet Gerber Lewis, Gerber Plumbing Fixtures
49) Joan Helpern, Joan and David
50) Maryjo Cohen, National Presto Industries
SOURCE Working Woman
NOTE TO EDITORS: Interviews of Top 50 Woman Business Owners are
available as well as Working Woman editors who prepared
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