YOUNG MEN'S BIZ KEEPS RETAILERS BUZZING AT MAGIC; FEDERATED TO EXPAND SELECTION, SAKS TO INTRODUCE PRIVATE LABEL.

Daily News Record, February, 2000 by PALMIERI, JEAN E.

LAS VEGAS -- Department and specialty stores alike were scouring the aisles at the Las Vegas Convention Center on MAGIC's first morning for the latest trends in the sizzling young men's market. With the maturing of the traditional collection sportswear business, most large stores were on the prowl for the next hot category, and the category they're banking on is definitely young men's.

"For a while," said Frank Tworecke, vice-chairman of Bon-Ton Stores, "the young men's customer was doing his shopping in the collections area. But now he's transitioning out of that into young men's."

And it's the job of the retailer to give him what he wants.

That's what prompted Janet Grove, CEO of Federated Merchandising, to make her first trip to...