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Article: Billionaire bets on Moss to defeat retail curse.(Business)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: Richard Tomlinson Bloomberg News
Philip Green has a problem with four purple crushed-velvet dresses hanging from a display stand.
"HereAEs one of my pet hates: too many garments on a rack," Green says, thrusting the frocks at Becky Bateman, manager of U.K. fashion chain TopshopAEs flagship London store.
ItAEs a Thursday morning in early October, and Green, 57, has strolled down LondonAEs Oxford Street from the head office of Arcadia Group Ltd., his privately held retail clothing company, for a store inspection.
ThatAEs the kind of attention Green has also lavished on TopshopAEs first U.S. outlet. In April, he flew supermodel ...