Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Incorporated

The floors at the Shops at Kenilworth are stripped, the ceilings ripped out, and the fountain is drained. Scaffolding stands throughout the mall. It's not a pretty sight now, but the Towson mall's owners promise major upgrades by next month as the 30-...

Beatrice Rugolo, longtime co-owner of Jerry's Belvedere Tavern, the popular Govans bar and restaurant, died Wednesday of lung and brain cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Lutherville resident was 65. She was born Beatrice Varelli and spent her early...

Robert N. Wildrick said yesterday that he is retiring as chief executive officer of Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc., nearly a decade after taking over the then sleepy, financially strapped regional menswear chain and turning it into a national brand....

Monday: -- Earnings: Diamond Foods Inc.; FuelCell Energy Inc.; H&R Block Inc.; Hayes Lemmerz International Inc.; SAIC Inc.; Vail Resorts Inc. Tuesday: -- Federal Reserve meeting -- October wholesale inventories -- Earnings: CHC Helicopter Corp.; Cooper...

Ho-hum. That's the sales forecast for retailers this holiday season. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. economist Steven Wieting expects a "below average" holiday season this year, according to a report this week from the New York-based bank. Wieting...

With their seven-figure salaries and even larger bonuses, CEOs can buy some of the finer things in life, and put away a tidy sum for retirement. Often, however, they don't have to. Executive perks in Maryland, according to company filings, include...

After the most disappointing holiday retail season in a decade, few experts expect a quick rebound for retailers in 2001. News has been grim so far, with store closings, layoffs and bankruptcies coming on the heels of a 2000 holiday season hurt by a...

It seems that reports of the suit’s demise were premature. A recession and general, back-to-basics mood post-September 11th has put the starch back in a lot of shirts and the gray flannels back in a lot of offices. It’s not surprising then that a 97-year-...

If you want to strike up a conversation with a stranger on the streets of Hampstead, just mention the word traffic, advises Chris Cavey. "You'll have a compadre for life," he said with a laugh. The first reported appearance of a car in Hampstead was in...