K&G

“Because after I was fired, The first thing I tried to do was buy K&G from Men's... For ninety million dollars.”

“K&G provides a unique opportunity for an offensive and defensive strategy, and they didn't quite understand what that meant, and so what it means is men's warehouse stores were able to raise the gross profit percentage of By a full 10%, which is a thousand bas…”

“We owned a division called K&G, and K&G did four hundred million. We had a hundred stores, and it was a super store in the sense that it was 25,000 feet, and it was men's and women's, and the price points were below men's warehouse.”

“To this day, they still can't find anybody that would offer them Half of what I was going to pay them.”

“Men's warehouse stores were able to raise the gross profit percentage by a full 10%, which is a thousand basis points over a decade, because K&G was protecting our opening price point position.”

“Well, at first, they wouldn't sell it to me at all. Then they said, alright, If you give us a four year non-solicitation. And I said, what do you mean by that? And they said, you can't hire our employees for four years. And I said, are you kidding? I'll give y…”