Gap CEO Millard Drexler will resign after two particularly disappointing years for the company. The announcement came as a shock to Gap brass and Wall Street, however,
following the company's return to its focus on mainstay fashion basics - and cautiously optimistic first quarter results. Industry analysts say the loss of Drexler's personal
brand leaves the future of the company on uncertain ground.
Fred Muir, a 17-year veteran of The Los Angeles Times, joins Fleishman-Hillard's Los Angeles public affairs practice as SVP. Muir was a member of three Pulitzer Prize-winning
project teams at The Times, where he covered city issues, the banking industry, film, television and music.
Watch for political types to be targeting a new demographic with upcoming promotions. According to pollster Mark Penn, "Office Park Dads," the male counterparts to "Soccer
Moms," have become an overlooked - and key - constituency for political PR. These dads, typically suburb-dwelling men between the ages of 25 and 50, became the critical swing
voters for Bush just as their wives swayed the vote for Clinton in 1996.
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