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Article: French Connection clicks in US. (French Connection PLC) (women's, men's and children's wear company)
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- WWD
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- January 8, 1997
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LONDON -- French Connection PLC thinks it's finally figured out America and has an ambitious expansion program to prove it.
The British women's, men's and children's wear company currently has 13 stores in the U.S., the latest a 5,300-square-foot unit that opened in late November in Beverly Hills. It already has signed leases for two more -- in the Beverly Center in Los Angeles and in Stamford, Conn.
Another four or five might follow by this fall in such cities as San Francisco, Chicago and Miami, said Stephen Marks, French Connection's chief executive.
The U.S. stores are owned equally by French Connection and its U.S. partner, Best-of-All Clothing, ...