1.   Boo.com North America is a unit of Boo.com Group Limited, a London-based fashion retailer that went out of business in October.

2.   A moral tale of three generations of fashion retailers.

3.   About a year ago, a top executive at a major fashion retailer was fired.

4.   By comparison, trendier higher-priced fashion retailers may carry hundreds of different styles.

5.   For art dealers, fashion retailers, hair salons and others lately clustered below Houston Street, secrecy can be a powerful marketing tool.

6.   Gains by Telefonica de Espana SA and the explosive debut of fashion retailer Adolfo Dominguez stood out.

7.   It has Nordstrom, a fashion retailer spreading across the country and changing ideas about customer service.

8.   Japan-based World Company and Spain-based Zara are fashion retailers whose merchants systematically examine early sales data to estimate future demand for various products.

9.   Other fashion apparel retailers have posted weak results for their most recently completed quarters.

10.   Shoppers may know Nordstrom for its vaunted customer service, but among Wall Street analysts and investors the fashion apparel retailer is perhaps better known as a top-notch merchandiser.