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	Abercrombie & Fitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Abercrombie, born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, was a former trapper, prospector, topographer and railroad surveyor.
		Abercrombie and Fitch T-shirts caused controversy in 2005.
		As the Abercrombie and Fitch brand reaches its full growth potential in the U.S., the company is depending on the Hollister Co. and RUEHL concepts to act as its primary growth vehicles in the U.S. The company will also begin expanding the brands internationally, expanding to Europe by 2006 and Japan by 2007.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abercrombie_&_Fitch_Co. (3270 words)

	History of Abercrombie and Fitch, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abercrombie and Fitch was originally a store that outfitted wealthy businessmen for their outdoor pursuits, and it continued to sell such clothing to this demographic until it was bought by The Limited (which owns Victoria's Secret) in 1988.
		Abercrombie grew tremendously after establishing themselves as the clothing line of choice for the "prep" clique in suburban high schools all across America.
		Abercrombie began publishing a quarterly catalogue in which only minimal space was given to marketing of their actual clothing.
	www.americandecency.org /abercrombie/aberhistory.htm (384 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abercrombie was exasperated by the lack of aggressiveness of Amherst and Brigadier-General Thomas Gage, and he complained to Loudoun that by not taking Montreal they were missing a fine opportunity to relieve the pressure on Wolfe*’s army at Quebec.
		Abercrombie rejoined the army at Oswego, New York, in July 1760 and was soon commissioned major; on 7—8 September he was Amherst’s emissary to Vaudreuil [Rigaud] in negotiating the capitulation of Montreal.
		These sources allege that the subject was not the son of Major-General James Abercromby but the brother of the future General Sir Ralph Abercromby; the latter was also a young officer in the Seven Years’ War (European theatre) and became famous for successful campaigns in the West Indies in 1796 and Egypt in 1801.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35843&query= (1104 words)

	John Abercrombie (www.whonamedit.com)
		A strong religiosity and charitability were basic traits of Abercrombie's characters; to his professional colleagues he was a sample of collegiality, bedside he was a man of silence.
		Abercrombie was never a physician with a hospital or ambulatorium.
		To Abercrombie, the noblest task of the medical writer is the exact observation and exact report of the pathological facts and their reciprocal relation.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/109.html (799 words)

	Sales drop for Abercrombie & Fitch
		Abercrombie and Fitch, the US clothing retailer, is planning a major expansion into Europe next year in a move that will pile pressure on UK fashion groups such as Marks and Spencer and Arcadia.
		Abercrombie and Fitch has set a precedent that we hope other retailers around the world will quickly follow, ending the needless suffering of sheep who are raised for their wool.
		Abercrombie and Fitch is still comfortable with its forecast for earnings of 79 cents a share in the fourth quarter.
	www.fashionunited.co.uk /news/abercrombie.htm (1133 words)

	The Blog of Death
		As a writer and photographer for National Geographic magazine, Thomas James Abercrombie was paid to travel to the ends of the earth and take pictures of some of its most awe-inspiring sights.
		In 1956, Abercrombie landed a job as a correspondent for the National Geographic and set off on a life of adventure.
		Abercrombie won the 1954 Newspaper Photographer of the Year award and the 1958 Magazine Photographer of the Year award; he was the first photographer to win both honors.
	www.blogofdeath.com (6480 words)

	Abercrombie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The thongs are meant to be "lighthearted and cute," according to an Abercrombie statement, and spokesman Hampton Carney told The Chronicle last week that the underwear is age-appropriate.
		I suppose Abercrombie and Fitch could argue that the thongs give young girls early power over their sexuality by allowing them agency both over their body and how they clothe it.
		Abercrombie might think it can get away with this -- just another venal corporation profiting from girls' insecurities -- because of the apparent acceptance of the intense sexualization of young girls in American pop and consumerist cultures.
	faculty.smu.edu /jdbradle/Abercrombie'sLolitaLine.htm (829 words)

	Abercrombie Marked Up
		Shares of Abercrombie were up $1.99, or 3.5%, to $58.88 in extended trading after shedding 4.4% during the regular session.
		Abercrombie's sales rose 35% to $704.9 million for the quarter, up from last year's $520.7 million, on a same-store sales gain of 25% for the quarter.
		A similar increase inspired selling in shares of Abercrombie after the third quarter, when it reported that inventories increased to $364 million from $227 million, primarily reflecting a jump in denim merchandise.
	www.thestreet.com /_tscrss/markets/natworden/10253051.html (364 words)

	USATODAY.com - No more Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NEW YORK (Reuters) — Youth-oriented retailer Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF) Tuesday said it would retire its quarterly catalog, which draws regular protests because of its racy photos of scantily clad or naked young men and women.
		Abercrombie and Fitch said its "2003 Christmas Field Guide" issue, already recalled from stores, would be the final publication of the magazine.
		Abercrombie has been wrestling with a sales slump, and last week it posted a 13% decline in same-store sales in November, prompting a 10% drop in its share price and an investment rating downgrade by Merrill Lynch.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/retail/2003-12-09-anf_x.htm (508 words)

	Fool.com: Will a New Brand Lift Abercrombie? [News] July 5, 2000
		Recent topics on the Abercrombie discussion board have been the back-to-school shopping season and the impending opening of a new brand under the Abercrombie umbrella.
		Abercrombie needs to find its way, and quick, if shareholders are to continue believing in the vision of management.
		Abercrombie shareholders should attach more value to the new fall clothing line and the back-to-school season as opposed to the rollout of the Hollister brand.
	www.fool.com /news/2000/anf000705.htm (685 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Lascelles Abercrombie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lascelles Abercrombie was born on January 9 1881, in Cheshire.
		Greatly influenced by both Browning and Hardy, Abercrombie's own poetry is distinguished by its rugged forms and complex philosophy.
		While wholeheartedly approving the changes in pitch and content brought to poetry by his own Georgian generation, Abercrombie stopped well short of Modernism in his outlook, professing an allegiance to older and more humanistic principles.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4981 (517 words)

	E.J.N. - JOHN ABERCROMBIE
		John Abercrombie, who comes from Greenwich, Connecticut, began playing the guitar at fourteen, and by the time he was out of high school, he was ready to veer away from imitative Chuck Berry licks in favor of learning to play the instrument more seriously.
		Abercrombie has also recorded with many other ECM artists; the most significant collaborations must surely be with drummer Jack DeJohnette (Abercrombie appears on all of DeJohnette's Directions and New Directions albums) and with fellow guitarist Ralph Towner.
		Abercrombie and Towner's Sargasso Sea was released in 1976 and their newest album, Five Years Later, came out in January 1982.
	www.ejn.it /mus/abercrom.htm (689 words)

	WFB on NRO
		Abercrombie and Fitch was for time immemorial a sports equipment and men's clothing store.
		Abercrombie's needle pointed surely at the hurricane of 1938, and presumably its managers feel sure that the way to sell their current brand of clothing is to flaunt the modern dress.
		AandF is engaged in yet further expansion of advertising along the line pioneered by Calvin Klein, which is torso-oriented and, in the case of Abercrombie, oddly aimed more at the pulchritude of the male than the female form.
	www.nationalreview.com /buckley/buckley061901.shtml (686 words)

	Abercrombie & Fitch accused of discrimination in hiring / Suit claims retailer avoids employing minorities on sales ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing retailer that appeals to the college set with blond-haired, blue-eyed models, was sued on Monday for racial discrimination, accused of favoring whites for its sales floor jobs.
		Abercrombie, whose upscale casual clothes have made it one of the hottest companies for teenagers and college students, is accused of favoring whites by concentrating its hiring on certain colleges, fraternities and sororities.
		In an affidavit, a former assistant manager of an Abercrombie store in Boston said that of the 110 employees there, two or three were fl, one was Hispanic, and the other 106 were white.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/17/MN296873.DTL (529 words)

	A&F cleans up its act with new publication called "young" - May. 28, 2004
		At the same time, it's not entirely surprising, given the backlash the retailer faced last year that eventually forced it to pull the plug on the A&F quarterlies that featured nude "teenage-looking" models in highly suggestive poses.
		About the new concept, Abercrombie's Lennox said the company is currently developing a new "lifestyle" brand and expects to debut the concept in August.
		Shares of Abercrombie are up about 57 percent year-to-date and are trading around their 52-week high.
	money.cnn.com /2004/05/27/news/midcaps/abercrombie_catalog?cnn=yes (837 words)

	John Abercrombie, Bio
		It was as the guitarist in Billy Cobham's band that Abercrombie first began attracting widespread attention among the general public.
		Abercrombie has also recorded with many other ECM artists; the most significant collaborations must surely be with drummer Jack DeJohnette (Abercrombie appears on all of DeJohnotte's Directions and Now Directions albums) and with fellow guitarist Ralph Towner.
		Abercrombie and Towners Sargasso Sea was released in 1976 and Five Years Later in 1982.
	www.johnabercrombie.com /bio.htm (734 words)

	Rachel E. Abercrombie
		Her aim is to understand the factors controlling seismic slip by studying earthquakes under a wide range of conditions (for example, on the San Andreas System, in subduction zones, in the oceans and also very deep earthquakes).
		Abercrombie, R. Antolik, and G. Ekström, 2003, The June 2000 Mw7.9 earthquakes south of Sumatra: deformation in the India-Australia plate, J. Geophys.
		Abercrombie, R. and Mori, J., 1996, Occurrence patterns of foreshocks to large earthquakes in the western United States, Nature, 381, 303-307.
	www.bu.edu /es/people/abercrombie.html (265 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Jack Abercrombie, 83, helped clothe region
		Abercrombie grew up in Arkansas during the Depression, and his family eventually joined the tide of refugees heading west to California.
		Abercrombie stayed with founder Bauer to launch a new venture manufacturing sleeping bags and jackets with eider down, used in the war to keep fighter pilots warm.
		Abercrombie is survived by daughter Peggy Jackson and son Michael Abercrombie, both of Edmonds; daughter Cathy Moray of Seattle; sisters Kathy Weed of Portland, Ruthie Tomlinson of Hanford, Calif., and Lee Burt of Modesto, Calif.; brother Bob of Sacramento, Calif.; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002357572_abercrombie05m.html?syndication=rss (494 words)

	AsianWeek.com
		According to the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Abercrombie has hired 24 of 25 requisite diversity recruiters, who are to focus on seeking women and minority employees.
		Abercrombie did, however, sponsor the College Leadership Summit at the National Convention for the Organization of Chinese Americans in July.
		Abercrombie is also prohibited from targeting fraternities and sororities, where it found many of its employees before.
	news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=109232a3183ac78a5f50f1c484dbc4c2 (845 words)

	Abercrombie & Fitch Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abercrombie & Fitch is a retailer of casual clothing and accessories for men and women targeting the collegiate demographic.
		Both David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch were stubborn, hot-tempered men, and they had vastly different views about the future of their business.
		Abercrombie & Fitch outfitted many great hunting and exploration expeditions, like Theodore Roosevelt's trips to Africa and the Amazon and Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole.
	www.scripophily.net /abfitcom1.html (1357 words)

	USATODAY.com - Abercrombie & Fitch to pay $40M to settle bias case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LOS ANGELES (AP) — Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF) has agreed to pay $40 million to fl, Hispanic and Asian employees and job applicants to settle a class-action federal discrimination lawsuit that accused the clothing retailer of promoting whites at the expense of minorities, lawyers said Tuesday.
		A spokesman for Abercrombie and Fitch could not immediately be reached.
		The lawsuit was filed last June in San Francisco by Hispanic and Asian groups charging that Abercrombie and Fitch, known for its "classic casual American" clothing styles, hires a disproportionately white sales force, puts minorities in less-visible jobs and cultivates a virtually all-white image in its catalogs and elsewhere.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/retail/2004-11-16-anf-bias_x.htm (487 words)

	Men.Style.com Forums abercrombie image: Fashion Message Boards
		I have a younger brother who is 20 and all he wears is Abercrombie from head to toe and he always looks like he's slept in his clothes for at least 3 days. He could at least go to the Gap or something.
		One good thing about their clothing though is that they do tend to fit really well, and help accentuate your body, but also their clothing isnt standard, i have like four polos from abercrombie and they all vary in size, some by a substantial difference, so you have to try anything on before buying.
		It's crazy to walk into Abercrombie and see a bunch of preppy, had everything given to me daddy's girls wearing something that was in my opinion evolutionized by the punk rock movement...Converse Chuck Taylors.
	forums.men.style.com /thread.jspa?threadID=17927&messageID=57184 (1580 words)

	Abercrombie M (1946) Annotated
		Citation frequency of Abercrombie's 1946 paper in neuroscience journals (gray bars) and in all other journals (fl bars).
		The estimation of density of nuclear population and the accurate comparion of the number of nuclei in different tissues, from microtome sections, is only possible if size of nucleus is taken into account.
		[Abercrombie, M., M. Johnson 1946 Quantitative histology of Wallerian degeneration I. Nuclear population in rabbit sciatic nerve.
	www.nervenet.org /papers/Abercrombie46.html (2605 words)

	Abercrombie and Fitch - Boycott Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abercrombie and Fitch's Spring catalog continues toned down featuring primarily bare chested men - which seems to be the marketing style for them these days.
		Since February 2000, the American Decency Association has campaigned against Abercrombie and Fitch because of their use of pornography to appeal to the prurient interests of youth.
		Abercrombie's fall catalog continues to avoid the blatant pornographic imagery that had marked it since 1999.
	www.americandecency.org /abercrombie.htm (445 words)

	JS Online: Parents say kid's thong is just plain wrong
		Abercrombie & Fitch, the same retailer that enraged parents last year with a summer catalog of teenage-looking models groping each other and in the nude, now offers several varieties of thongs at its Abercrombie stores, the division of the company for children 7 to 14 years old.
		"Abercrombie has built their whole image on edginess, and even if people still don't buy them, they win because people are talking about them," said Laura Peracchio, a professor of marketing and consumer behavior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
		The Abercrombie & Fitch clothes may be designed with a certain irreverence, but it is all meant to be fun and fashionable, he said.
	www.jsonline.com /news/gen/may02/43941.asp (1009 words)

	Lovemarks \| Abercrombie & Fitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abercrombie and Fitch is a specialty clothing retailer in the United States of America.
		I worked at Abercrombie and Fitch and to me (and the other "Crombie Kids") the brand is more than just form fitting shirts, loose, and torn jeans, but a lifestyle.
		I love Abercrombie and Fitch, although their women's clothes tend to run small and extra tight.
	www.lovemarks.com /lm/read/490 (504 words)

	CNN.com - Abercrombie kills racy catalog - Dec. 10, 2003
		Apparel giant Abercrombie & Fitch, under fire from some consumer groups for its racy catalogs, said Tuesday it would stop issuing them and halt publication of its controversial holiday issue.
		But one parents' advocacy group claimed the move was in response to its protests and calls for a boycott of Abercrombie over the catalogs.
		Abercrombie said it has sold about 200,000 copies of each issue of the catalog.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/US/12/10/abercrombie.catalog (427 words)

	Abercrombie & Fitch plans to expand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abercrombie and Fitch Co., New Albany, Ohio, plans to expand during 2005, planning to increase gross square-footage by 11 percent by the end of the fiscal year.
		Flagship Abercrombie and Fitch stores will be opened in New York, as well as 60 additional Hollister stores and seven RUEHL stores.
		Five Abercrombie and Fitch stores and five abercrombie kids stores will also be converted into Hollister stores.
	www.ddimagazine.com /displayanddesignideas/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000928641 (300 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Clothier pushes porn, group sex to youths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Protesting the Abercrombie & Fitch Christmas catalog is becoming an annual holiday ritual, but this year the Ohio-based clothing retailer has reached a new low, contend anti-porn and family advocacy groups who are launching an unprecedented offensive.
		Abercrombie promised to remove the article from future reprintings of the issue.
		Abercrombie said it thought the shirts were funny but pulled them from its stores.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35604 (1121 words)

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