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BOBBY JONES -- STILL THE LEADER IN THE (HIGH-END) CLUBHOUSE.(Hickey-Freeman sportswear division)
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Daily News Record
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January 13, 1999
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RETAIL STORES AND A MORE MODERATELY PRICED PLAYERS COLLECTION ARE PART OF STRATEGY GOING FORWARD
NEW YORK -- Several years ago, before Jim Leddy worked for the Bobby Jones division of Hickey-Freeman, he read a Wall Street Journal story that amounted to something of a hatchet job on Hickey-Freeman's parent, Hartmarx.
As if to drive another nail in the coffin of what was then an ailing giant, the story said Hartmarx was planning to start a golf sportswear company commemorating "some dead golfer."
Leddy, who was working for Corbin at the time, took exception to such a characterization. He wrote his first letter to the editor.
A few hundred million dollars later, ...
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