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Beginning in the fall of next year, QVC will distribute Liz Claiborne’s New York brand of apparel, which is produced in collaboration with designer Isaac Misrahi. Dow Jones Newswires Oct. 8, 2009
Tags: Isaac Mizrahi, Lis Claiborne, QVCAnne Byrn, a.k.a. The Cake Mix Doctor and has a new cookbook out called The Cake Mix Doctor Returns, and she’s making appearances on QVC, in addition to heading out on a publicity tour. Byrn will appear at 10:15 a.m. Saturday at The Big Read, an annual book festival in Clayton, MO, to speak and sign copies of the book. Byrn’s upcoming appearances on QVC and publicity schedule are available on her blog here. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct. 7, 2009
Tags: Anne Byrn, QVC, The Cake Mix DoctorSome 51,000 sets of Paula Dean Hammered Cast Iron Cookware sold by QVC on TV, the web and its employee stores from October 2007 through July 2009 have been recalled by the retailer, after 79 reports of cracking or shattering during heating. The products were manufactured by Meyer Trading Company in China. ConsumerAffairs.com US Recall News Oct. 6, 2009
Tags: Paula Dean Cookware, QVC
Designer Chloe Dao
One of them is a strapless dress like the kind she is modeling in the photo at left. Vanessa Hall conducts a short interview with Ms. Dao in her Houston boutique, which includes some hints about what to expect in her fall collections. Inspired by a theme of “Destruction and Reconstruction,” the designer promises heavy fall fabrics, jackets, and color blocking. Examiner.com July 20, 2009
Tags: Chloe DaoTo the history of brand-on-brand slug-fests must be added a couple of robe/blanket hybrids whose wearers can only consider sweatpants, hoodies and moo moos too fashion-forward for such salt-of-the-earth persons as themselves. Coke/Pepsi and Boeing/Airbus, move over. Company in the annals of marketing rivalries is coming in the blob-like forms of the Slanket and Snuggie. More »
Tags: Freedom Blanket, Slanket, SnuggieThe price of the exclusive QVC offer was $559, while a model with the same configuration became available on the Dell website just a week later for $487. That’s a 15% premium for customers buying a new but decidedly entry-level PC. So, were the QVC shoppers willing “early adapters” or naïve dupes? PC World Feb. 26, 2009
Tags: Dell Inspiron Mini 10 NetbookIn response to a precipitous fall in the demand for diamonds in recent months, Debswana — the mining company jointly owned by De Beers and the Botswanan government — has closed the Orapa and Damtshaa mines in northern Botswana. Half of the landlocked, southern African nation’s finances come from diamond trading. Radio France Internationale (English Language) Feb. 24, 2009
Tags: Botswana, De Beers, Debswana, Diamond miningForget about the predictions of South African industry analysts that the price of rough-cut diamonds could fall another 60%. What keeps De Beers executives up at night are the more than 500 million carats of gem diamonds in public hands (or on them and in safety-deposit and jewelry boses). That’s more than 50 times the number of gem diamonds produced by the diamond cartel in a year. “The moment a significant portion of the public begins selling diamonds from this prodigious inventory, the cartel would be unable to sustain the price of diamonds, or maintain the illusion that they are such a rare stone that their value is, as the ad slogan claims, ‘forever.’” International Herald Tribune Feb. 23, 2009
Tags: De Beers, Diamonds
Computer maker Dell will begin accepting “pre-orders” for its new Inspiron Mini 10 netbook through QVC about a week before Dell starts taking advance orders on its own Web site. Here’s why according to a Dell spokesmann, “”Because netbooks are a new PC category, particularly with non-technical, mainstream consumers, a conversational, demonstration-centered experience like a QVC [TV] spotlight segment is an ideal venue to inform, engage, and excite.” Say it on, brother… Betanews Feb. 19, 2009
ZaleMark Holding Company Inc. has announced that several of its jewelry brands will be sold on Gems TV. The two companies, in addiition, have agreed to “co-design and co-develop specific celebrity endorsed brands.” ZaleMark Holdings Press Release on MSNBC.com Feb. 17, 2009
Tags: Gems TV, ZaleMark