Article: Firm hangs hat on fair trade: Former Lands' End executives offer 'style with a conscience'.

Byline: Doris Hajewski

Sep. 19--Four former Lands' End executives today launched a new online and catalog apparel business that markets clothing with a claim of fair trade practices. The new company is called Fair Indigo, and it's based in Middleton. Its marketing tagline is "style with a conscience." The company will open its first store at the Hilldale mall in Madison on Nov. 1, and it expects to expand with four to five stores per year, starting in 2008. The company is headed by Bill Bass, who ran Lands' End's online business. Bass stayed with Lands' End after the company's sale to Sears but left after Sears was sold to Kmart.

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