CHANGES AT RETAIL IMPACT VENDORS' SPRING '07 PLANS.

Footwear News, June, 2006 by Niemi, Wayne

Byline: WAYNE NIEMI

LOS ANGELES - Under pressure to remain competitive in a rapidly shifting retail environment, vendors are adapting to a radically altered playing field heading into spring '07.

As they shift focus to the new season beginning with this week's FFANY show, a number of top executives told Footwear News that frenzied retail consolidation has changed the game like never before.

"A year ago, had somebody said to me that this is how we're going to be doing business, I wouldn't have believed it," said Lauri Carleton, president of wholesale at Los Angeles-based Charles David.

"We've seen the landscape of retail completely change for a company like ours."

Carleton said that department-store consolidation is...

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