U.S. designers lag European labels in wooing China
NEW YORK (Reuters) - China isin fashion for top U.S. designers as they look to tap the world's fastest-growing luxury goods market amid a slow economic recovery at home, but critics say they have lagged their European rivals in seeing the Asian giant's potential. Among Chinese consumers the top five brands for the past two years were all European -- Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, Dior and Armani ...
The Heart Link Women’s Network Celebrates Business Award and New Location in Peoria
The Heart Link Network®, awarded the Women Entrepreneur Business Award of Excellence in 2010 and 2011 is pleased to announce its new Peoria, IL location.Peoria, IL (PRWEB) February 08, 2012 The Heart Link Women’s Network®, winner of the Women Entrepreneur Business Award of Excellence in 2010 and 2011, opens a new networking location in Peoria. ...
Interview: February 9, 2012
In Nicole Baart’s new novel, FAR FROM HERE, Danica Greene embarks on a journey from Iowa to Alaska in search of her pilot husband, whose plane has gone missing. But her world is shattered when she discovers that he wasn’t flying alone, and a young woman is missing too. In this interview, conducted by Bookreporter.com’s Bronwyn Miller, Baart explains how she developed the idea for the book over ...
Year in Review: 2011 in The Colony
One of the year’s significant community oriented events was the refurbishment of Kids Colony Playground outside The Colony Recreation Center. Decades after volunteers built the original playground, a new corps of volunteers contributed their time and energy for the upgrade./File photo
Ladies get back down to business
CLASHES between these two great Connacht rivals have produced epic encounters over the years, but excitement was at a premium on Sunday as Mayo cruised past the home side in the opening round of the national league campaign.
Program takes cancer patients on Road to Recovery
Kathy Miller of Arlington Heights sat inside Northwest Community Hospital near her home two years ago, feeling beat down from radiation and chemotherapy treatments to treat her stage-four throat cancer. Even worse, she felt guilty because her girlfriends, her son and her brother were also exhausted from caring for her and shuttling her to medical appointments.