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19 May

Lester Gribetz, Master Merchant, Former Bloomingdale’s Vice Chair, Dies

Lester Gribetz, Master Merchant, Former Bloomingdale’s Vice Chair, Dies
Lester Gribetz, a former Bloomingdale’s vice chairman and for a long time a highly respected and talented retail executive immersed in the house furnishings and cosmetics industries, died Thursday morning at his home in Manhattan along with his husband by his side. He was 93. “Lester was a special and rare human being,” said his husband, Andy Peters, who confirmed Gribetz’s passing. “His open heart and type, caring nature captured everyone he got here into contact with. He was also a talented, once-in-a-generation merchant, which guided him from folding towels at Bloomingdale’s just out of the military to becoming vice chairman of the shop.” “He was a master merchant with an ideal eye,” said Jack Hruska, the previous executive vice chairman of...
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21 Jan

QVC Brings Back Master Beauty Class in 2023 –

QVC Brings Back Master Beauty Class in 2023 –
QVC is giving its Master Beauty Class event one other go. After the series’ successful first yr in 2022 — at that time, it was the retailer’s largest beauty event ever — QVC is taking the event across digital platforms to widen its reach. “It’s now not about just connecting through the tv, we at the moment are casting such a large net to so many other platforms,” said Anna Baker, vp and general merchandise manager at QVC. Those platforms include TikTok, QVC.com, the retailer’s app, Facebook and YouTube. “[Our customer] is engaging with us on all of those different platforms.” Participating brands include Too Faced, Peter Thomas Roth, Lancer, Tarte and Philosophy. It can also include Be Free, a recent hair care brand from...
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10 Dec

Master P Opens Up About Daughter’s Fatal Drug Overdose

Master P Opens Up About Daughter’s Fatal Drug Overdose
Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for REVOLT Music mogul Master P is on a mission to show his pain into purpose after losing his daughter to a fatal drug overdose.  In a recent interview with CBS Mornings, Master P sat down with Gayle King to debate how daughter Tytyana Miller’s premature death in May has since inspired him to spread awareness across the impact of substance abuse and mental illness. Article continues after video. “It’s hard,” he told King. “Coming from where I come from, coming from poverty, you'd think that you simply would outlive your kids and that was the mission. I feel like, going to my daughter’s funeral, I feel like I went to my very own funeral.” “I’m gonna turn my pain...
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