Article: Dress shirt brand war heating up. (men's clothing)

DRESS SHIRT BRAND WAR HEATING UP

NEW YORK -- Branded dress shirt manufacturers are graduating from Marketing 101 in record numbers.

Dress shirt company executives say competition is so tough that it's not enough to create a good product, place it in retail stores and forget about it.

They now have to do battle on a variety of levels:

* Educate their retail accounts about the line and about the particular quality features of their shirts;

* Motivate the floor salespeople to actively sell their shirts;

* Create excitement at point-of-sale, usually through a combination of fixturing, packaging and in-store videos;

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