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JC Penney has teamed up with Sephora for a "store-within-store" initiative in an attempt to reach a younger, trendier target of women, that will be implemented as early as this fall.
Additionally, Sephora will sell its beauty, body, and fragrance products for JC Penney's Internet customers with a direct link between the two company's websites.
The department store will feature a Sephora store in the center of its retail space that will showcase the signature Sephora look in terms of layout and theme. The in-store store will even come complete with Sephora-trained staffers to tend to customer's beauty needs.
Sephora, which carries over 150 brands including Chanel, Vincent Longo, and Bliss, will now serve as the exclusive beauty provider for JC Penney, which currently lacks a beauty department.
Fall 2006 will mark the birth of this project with only handful of stores, followed by all JC Penney stores that will open in 2007.
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ReNu with MoistureLoc was being pulled from U.S. store shelves at the request of Bausch & Lomb amid concern the contact lens solution may be linked to a fungal eye infection that can cause blindness.They also began placing advertisements in newspapers Friday suggesting consumers use another lens care solution for the time being. The ads feature a letter from Chairman and Chief Executive Ron Zarrella.
"We find ourselves in a position where the safety of one of our products, Renu with MoistureLoc manufactured at our United States plant, is in question," the letter said. The action did not apply to other Bausch & Lomb products or ReNu with MoistureLoc made outside the United States.
The company stopped shipments of MoistureLoc in the United States on Monday when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was scrutinizing 109 reports of Fusarium keratitis infections in patients in 17 states over the last 10 months. Without eye-drop treatment the infection can scar the cornea and blind its victims. Symptoms can include blurry vision, pain or redness, excessive discharge and increased sensitivity to light.
Federal health officials have made no direct link between MoistureLoc and the infections, but a high incidence of affected patients interviewed had used the cleaner.
Inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration remained at Bausch & Lomb's factory in Greenville, S.C., Friday, an FDA spokeswoman said. The inspectors have been scouring the plant for about three weeks and have so far found no evidence of contamination, Zarrella said.
MoistureLoc hit stores in late 2004 and generated $45 million in U.S. sales last year — a small portion of Bausch & Lomb's more than $2 billion in annual revenues. The company also makes contact lenses, ophthalmic drugs and vision-correction surgical instruments.
More than 30 million Americans wear contact lenses, and analysts estimate that nearly 10 million of them use Bausch & Lomb lens care solutions.
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Retail Makeover From Sephora To JC Penney
JC Penney has teamed up with Sephora for a "store-within-store" initiative in an attempt to reach a younger, trendier target of women, that will be implemented as early as this fall.Additionally, Sephora will sell its beauty, body, and fragrance products for JC Penney's Internet customers with a direct link between the two company's websites.
The department store will feature a Sephora store in the center of its retail space that will showcase the signature Sephora look in terms of layout and theme. The in-store store will even come complete with Sephora-trained staffers to tend to customer's beauty needs.
Sephora, which carries over 150 brands including Chanel, Vincent Longo, and Bliss, will now serve as the exclusive beauty provider for JC Penney, which currently lacks a beauty department.
Fall 2006 will mark the birth of this project with only handful of stores, followed by all JC Penney stores that will open in 2007.
Read more!
Bausch & Lomb Asks Stores to Pull Product
ReNu with MoistureLoc was being pulled from U.S. store shelves at the request of Bausch & Lomb amid concern the contact lens solution may be linked to a fungal eye infection that can cause blindness.They also began placing advertisements in newspapers Friday suggesting consumers use another lens care solution for the time being. The ads feature a letter from Chairman and Chief Executive Ron Zarrella."We find ourselves in a position where the safety of one of our products, Renu with MoistureLoc manufactured at our United States plant, is in question," the letter said. The action did not apply to other Bausch & Lomb products or ReNu with MoistureLoc made outside the United States.
The company stopped shipments of MoistureLoc in the United States on Monday when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was scrutinizing 109 reports of Fusarium keratitis infections in patients in 17 states over the last 10 months. Without eye-drop treatment the infection can scar the cornea and blind its victims. Symptoms can include blurry vision, pain or redness, excessive discharge and increased sensitivity to light.
Federal health officials have made no direct link between MoistureLoc and the infections, but a high incidence of affected patients interviewed had used the cleaner.
Inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration remained at Bausch & Lomb's factory in Greenville, S.C., Friday, an FDA spokeswoman said. The inspectors have been scouring the plant for about three weeks and have so far found no evidence of contamination, Zarrella said.
MoistureLoc hit stores in late 2004 and generated $45 million in U.S. sales last year — a small portion of Bausch & Lomb's more than $2 billion in annual revenues. The company also makes contact lenses, ophthalmic drugs and vision-correction surgical instruments.
More than 30 million Americans wear contact lenses, and analysts estimate that nearly 10 million of them use Bausch & Lomb lens care solutions.
Read more!
