Not surprisingly, manyprominentrecentfailureshavebeenfirmsreliant onthe Americanconsumer, such asEddieBauer, a clothingretailer, and SixFlags, a theme-park operator.
If you've recently bought a tie with a Brooks Brothers label or shirts or chinos from the Gap or Eddie Bauer, you're probably wearing Nano-Tex treated fibers.
At Yahoo a daunting 40% of ad revenue still comes from dot-coms, a wobbly market, but it also serves a blue-chip roster in the real world, including Visa, Eddie Bauer, FTD and Spiegel.