SEESAWING COMPS/12 THE ONLINE RUSH/13 Women’s Wear Daily • The Retailers’ Daily Newspaper • December 2, 2005 • $2.00 WWDFRIDAY Diddy does Saks. Page 4. Beauty Clinique’s New Age By Julie Naughton NEW YORK — With a new president and two additions to one of its best-selling skin care lines, Clinique is about to enter the next chapter in its 37-year history. The Estée Lauder Cos., Clinique’s parent, is expected to announce today that beauty veteran Lynne Greene will take the helm of the iconic department store brand early next year. As well, Clinique is set for a national rollout of two products — a facial mask and a serum — which it expects to significantly boost the brand’s already popular Turnaround skin care franchise. See Clinique, Page5 BY MEGAN MCINTYRE PHOTOS BY ROBERT MITRA; STYLED MITRA; ROBERT PHOTOS BY 2 WWD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2005 WWD.COM Task Force Targets Jewelry Theft Ring By Kristi Ellis WWDFRIDAY WASHINGTON — The FBI, join- Beauty ing with the jewelry and gem in- dustry and local law enforce- GENERAL ment, has launched a task force BEAUTY: With a new president and two additions to one of its best-selling to catch a ring of thieves that 1 skin care lines, Clinique is writing the next chapter in its 37-year history. has burglarized 50 jewelry The FBI has launched the Gate Cutters Jewelry Task Force to nab a jewelry stores of more than $5.1 million heist ring that has burglarized some 50 stores of $5.1 million in goods. in merchandise along the East 2 Coast for two years. Sean “Diddy” Combs made a delivery to the Saks flagship, driving a Brinks Federal agents said at a news 4 truck filled with the first load of Unforgivable, his new men’s fragrance. conference Thursday that the al- P&G is putting its biggest effort in five years behind CoverGirl’s January leged organized criminal ring, 6 launches, including a new makeup line, foundation, lipstick and mascara. dubbed “Gate Cutters Jewelry Crew,” has targeted primarily na- High-end department stores posted surprisingly weak same-store sales in tional, mall-based stores in as 12 November, while Wal-Mart and Penney’s had solid results. many as 12 states, stretching Internet shoppers are buying furs, diamonds and designer handbags, from Manchester, N.H., to Boca Zales is among the retailers that has been a target of the thieves. 13 apparently having overcome a hesitancy to buy expensive items online. Raton, Fla., and possibly more as ry, such as chains, bracelets and while the recovery rate of stolen The Chinese government is giving WorldBest Group Co., a state-operated far west as Illinois. rings, as well as men’s and cars, for example, is 63 percent. textile and pharmaceutical conglomerate, a $617 million bailout. Officials appealed to the pub- women’s Movado watches. The John Kennedy, president of 14 lic for help in catching the suspects, who have been caught the Jewelers’ Security Alliance, Classified Advertisements........................................................................15 thieves, offering a reward of on surveillance cameras, are de- a non-profit trade association fo- about $50,000 for information scribed as possibly African- cusing on crime prevention and To e-mail reporters and editors at WWD, the address is leading to their arrests. American or Hispanic males. representing 20,000 jewelry re- [email protected], using the individual’s name. 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ACCOMPANIED BY A SELF-ADDRESSED OVERNIGHT-DELIVERY RETURN ENVELOPE, POSTAGE PREPAID. situation where they are boxed in and jewelry industry lost $1.1 “You don’t usually see a gang or cornered in a mall and we billion through theft, said Eric with this many hits, that keeps have a violent situation.” Ives, acting unit chief for the doing it without being caught or The thieves, suspected to be FBI. He noted that the recovery at least identified,” he said. four to five people, have selec- rate for stolen jewelry, which is “This is unusual that it keeps Quote of the Week tively targeted men’s gold jewel- hard to identify, is 4.4 percent, going on.” “I have a tremendous amount of respect for Target’s marketing capabilities. To me, no one else out there has done Jones Shakes Up Front Office the job. I think we are next.” By Julee Greenberg “Lynne will really help me to be able to focus on other strategic issues involving the company as a — Terry Lundgren, Federated Department Stores Inc. NEW YORK — In an effort to improve its overall whole,” Boneparth said.