PARIS — Swiss flavors and fragrance supplier Givaudan posted third-quarter sales that were down 4.2 percent to 1.05 billion Swiss francs, or $984.8 million at average exchange.
For the first nine months of 2008, the firm generated sales of 3.15 billion Swiss francs, or $2.98 billion at average exchange for the period, representing a 1.4 percent [...]
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As their husbands paced the stage at Nashville’s Belmont University Tuesday evening, Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama took the opportunity to show their true — or rather, patriotic — colors. McCain wore a royal blue suit, and Obama, a paneled cranberry red Narciso Rodriguez dress (curiously, the sparkly green ribbon pins at the neck said [...]
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NEW YORK — “The yoga room was not so Zen.”
Peter Som’s assessment of the lively CFDA party at Elie and Rory Tahari’s SoHo home Tuesday night couldn’t have been more spot-on. Over the course of the night, many of the guests crowded the Taharis’ rooftop yoga room and the adjoining terrace, including Leighton Meester, [...]
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