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Article: Mark Cross gets a facelift. (Bolan Group Ltd. to manufacture line of leather handbags for leather goods stores)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- September 13, 1991
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NEW YORK -- Barbara Bolan's first full handbag line for Mark Cross will be launched in November for the spring market.
Bolan's company, The Bolan Group, Ltd., was hired by Mark Cross last June to help revitalize the line, but at that time the 15-year veteran of the handbag industry could only do a small group in time for the August market.
Mark Cross is part of the leather goods division of A.T. Cross Co., which encompasses Manetti-Farrow, the U.S. wholesale distributor of the Mark Cross and Fendi leather goods lines, and the Mark Cross retail operation.
In 1990 the leather goods division's sales fell 32 percent to $33,077,883 from $48,613,023 ...