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| | Fast, Fashionable -- and Profitable |
 | | Europe's big "cheap chic" clothing retailers Hennes and Mauritz (known as HandM) and rival Inditex, the name behind Zara, Massimo Dutti, and other brands, are cranking out profits that U.S. competitors like Gap (GPS) and Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF) can only dream about. |
 | | Zara can get clothes from the design studio onto the racks in as little as two weeks. |
 | | Zara, which has opened only 16 U.S. stores since entering the region in 1989, says it's concentrating on a few main markets in Europe, including Germany, France, Britain, and Italy. |
| www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/mar2005/nf20050310_0805_db039.htm (1324 words) |
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