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- <text id=91TT0228>
- <title>
- Feb. 04, 1991: Business Notes:Sporting Goods
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 04, 1991 Stalking Saddam
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- SPORTING GOODS
- A Blowout In Sneakers
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- <p> The flashy shoemaker L.A. Gear, which jumped quickly into
- the No. 3 spot behind Nike and Reebok, is winding up with a
- disappointing season. Last December a Marquette University
- basketball player tumbled to the ground when one of his L.A.
- Gear high-tops collapsed. Michael Jackson's L.A. Gear line
- flopped; many pairs were sold at a hefty discount. Last week
- the company projected that it would lose as much as $6 million
- in the fourth quarter. For all of 1990, it expects profits of
- $33 million on revenues of $900 million.
- </p>
- <p> To rebuild L.A. Gear's momentum, chairman Robert Greenberg
- signed singer Paula Abdul to endorse her own line. The company
- also hopes youngsters will go for Sun Blossoms tennis shoes,
- which sport white vinyl flowers that change color in sunlight.
- To top it off, the company will launch Catapult, a $100 shoe
- designed to compete with Nike's Air Jordan and Reebok's the
- Pump.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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