George Lazarus

Non-dairy creamers haven't exactly taken a powder--the powdered versions still are a $300 million-plus annual business--but it's in the liquids where the sales action has shifted. As recently as 1996,...

Pop-music phenom Christina Aguilera is coming to the rescue of embattled retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co. While she begins a summer tour next week co-sponsored by Sears and Levi, Strauss...

A huge windfall of GM ad bucks is landing at B Com 3 Group's Starcom MediaVest Group. General Motors Corp. disclosed Tuesday that it's consolidating virtually all of its media...

The focus of Mexican restaurant chain Pepe's may be south of the border, but the chain is waving the red, white and blue as it ventures into institutional locations. In...

The opening salvos are being fired in the Great Women's Shoe War in Chicagoland retailing. The major combatants are Marshall Field's flagship State Street store, long a top-volume producer in...

Motorola Inc.'s numbers are gaining momentum, but can this Schaumburg-based electronics-high tech giant finally get it right in its advertising messages? The disclosure that Motorola is seeking creative input or...

Oh dear, the decades-old John Deere logo is getting another facelift. Though the trade and consumers might not initially notice the change, the trademark now finds the deer leaping forward....

Imagine playing Monopoly, and you land on pricey Park Place--so your only option is paying a stiff rent, unless you're just about bankrupt and you can't fork over the dough....

Retired veterans and alumni of General Mills and Pillsbury Co., cognizant of the corporate rivalry that long existed in Minneapolis between these food goliaths, surely must be astounded that Big...

The storied Ivanhoe Theater some time next year will become what's billed as the world's largest fine wine and specialty foods superstore. Michael Binstein, chief executive officer of Gold Standard...