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Article: 25 years young: the Ralph Lauren Home Collection celebrates a milestone anniversary white embracing new opportunities.(Ralph Lauren Home: Twenty-Five)
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- HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
- Article date:
- October 20, 2008
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FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, THE BREADTH OF POSSIBILITIES has produced the longest-running, no doubt most influential and arguably single-most iconic brand in the home furnishings industry: The Ralph Lauren Home Collection.
And this month, as the brand celebrates its 25 anniversary, it is poised to enter a new era, with a new division president, several new key licenses imminent and a vastly changed retail landscape that has caused it to expand its distribution beyond its traditional upstairs niche.
"I jumped at the chance to come here," said Frank Guzzetta, who just came on board as president of Home this past summer, ...