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Thursday, September 13, 2007

What is the Best-Selling Underwear in the World?

Answer:

The retailer Marks & Spencer sells 50 million pairs (counting multipacks as a pair) of its own brand of women’s underwear globally each year - that's almost 137,000 pairs a day. Since its beginnings, Marks & Spencer has developed from exclusively selling clothing to selling foods and furniture. In 1999, its e-commerce site began operations. The company’s turnover in the UK for the 1999-2000 financial year was $9,712 million (£6,482 million).

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Who has the Largest Swatch Watch Collection in the World?

Answer:

Fiorenzo Barindelli, of Cesano Maderno, Lombardy, Italy, has a collection of 3,677 Swatch watches, including an example of every Swatch watch type produced since 1983.

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What is the Biggest-Selling Designer Clothing Label?

Answer:

The biggest-selling designer clothing brand in the world is Ralph Lauren, which had annual global wholesales of $4.5 billion (£3.2 billion) in the 2000 fiscal year. Boasting men and women's labels such as Polo Ralph Lauren, Polo Sport and the Ralph Lauren collection, the company has nearly 240 Polo shops and outlet stores worldwide, and also sells its designs through approximately 1,600 department stores and speciality shops.

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