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- BUSINESS, Page 65Business NotesEAST-WEST TRADECoffee, Tea Or Vodka?
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- The hottest buzz word on Madison Avenue is fast becoming
- perestroika. The latest sign of Soviet chic: Moscow unveiled an
- ad campaign last week to lure U.S. business travelers onto
- Aeroflot, the national airline. Created by Miami's Kelley
- Swofford Inc., the ads tempt Americans with "perestroika perks"
- ranging from complimentary nights in a Moscow hotel to a free
- Mont Blanc pen "to sign your deal with the Russians."
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- Americans who stay at home can sample the fruits of Soviet
- industry at trendy stores like New York City's Bloomingdale's,
- which in August opened a Perestroika Shop. Back-to-school
- shoppers could choose last week from Soviet items that included
- watches, sunglasses and Red Star-emblazoned sweat shirts. The
- department store company is now negotiating to open one or two
- small Bloomingdale's shops in Moscow next spring. Not to be
- outdone, Nathan's Famous, a New York-based fast-food chain, last
- week shipped a 40-ft. mobile restaurant to Moscow, where it will
- open Sept. 25 in Red Square.
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