It expects to complete the sales of a metal coil-coating business and a parts business during the 2005 fiscal year.
Mr. Caballero has sold trench coats, business suits, riding jackets and blazers to an A-list clientele including President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
It's difficult enough as a woman to feel sexy in puffy winter coats, business casual button downs, and workout sweatpants.
His father, Edward Grossman, had taken over his own father's ladies' suit and coat business, I. Grossman & Son, and the family lived a comfortable life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
The Rudin patriarch, Sam, began the family empire when he branched out from his father's ladies'-coat business to build apartments in the Bronx in the 1920's.
"So I'm at the movie theatre," she said, "and I've got my coat all neatly laid out against the back of my seat, when this guy comes along — " And here I stopped her, because I've always wondered about this coat business.
MONROE MILSTEIN was working with his father in the wholesale women's coat business in 1972 when he became interested in a little deal in Burlington, a tired-looking town about a 100-mile drive from his home in Long Beach, N.Y., on Long Island.
Consignment shops are a good resource for determining the value of higher priced clothing items, such as coats, business suits, dresses and evening gowns.
The manuscript--an anecdote, entitled "In Memoriam," about a salesman Miller met while working in his father's coat business--was found stashed in a box by his mother, Augusta, soon after "Death of a Salesman" opened in New York at the Morosco Theatre, in 1949.
