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Isaac Mizrahi, Brand Charisma and QVC

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By Simon Graj, Contributor Robert W. D’Loren is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the omni-channel company Xcel Brands, Inc. – owner of the Isaac Mizrahi brand and a 50% interest in the Liz Claiborne New York brand. He is also chairman and CEO of IPX Capital, LLC a private equity investment company; and he was Director, President and CEO of Nexcen Brands from June 2006 to August 2008. His career in IP-centric and consumer-branded products has been extensive and long-term. Among the other highly visible brands with which he has been associated are The Athlete’s Foot, Waverly Home, Iconix Brand Group and Bill Blass, Ltd. This interview was conducted for the Simon Graj blog series by Ron Beyma.  

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Liberty Interactive Corporation to Hold Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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Liberty Interactive Corporation to Hold Annual Meeting of Stockholders

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Liberty Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB, LVNTA, LVNTB) will be holding its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., Mountain Time, at the corporate offices of Starz, 8900 Liberty Circle, Englewood, Colorado 80112. The record date for the meeting is 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 10, 2013. At the meeting, Liberty Interactive Corporation may make observations regarding the company’s financial performance and outlook.

The presentation will be broadcast live via the Internet. All interested persons should visit the Liberty Interactive Corporation website at http://www.libertyinteractive.com/events to register for the webcast. An archive of the webcast will also be available on this website for 30 days.

About Liberty Interactive Corporation

Liberty Interactive Corporation operates and owns interests in a broad range of digital commerce businesses. Those interests are currently attributed to two tracking stock groups: Liberty Interactive Group and Liberty Ventures Group. The Liberty Interactive Group (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB) is primarily focused on digital commerce and consists of Liberty Interactive Corporation‘s subsidiaries Backcountry.com, Bodybuilding.com, Celebrate Interactive (including Evite and Liberty Advertising), CommerceHub, MotoSport, Provide Commerce, QVC and Right Start, and Liberty Interactive Corporation‘s interests in HSN and Lockerz. The Liberty Ventures Group (Nasdaq: LVNTA, LVNTB) consists of Liberty Interactive Corporation‘s interests in TripAdvisor, Expedia, Interval Leisure Group, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Tree.com (Lending Tree), AOL and various green energy investments.

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Behind the Scenes at QVC: Lights, Camera, Customers

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By Julia Pimsleur, Contributor

I recently went on QVC to sell my language learning product for kids, Little Pim and got a peek behind the curtain of the most successful 24-hour shopping network in the world ($7.8 billion in annual sales). While I admit to never having watched QVC before my SVP of Customer Acquisition, Alyson, cooked up the idea of turning me into the Vanna White of language teaching for kids, I now feel a bit like I have been admitted to a private club of Immediate Gratification and I don’t ever want to go back to holding meetings at Starbucks. …read more

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Liberty Interactive Corporation to Present at Morgan Stanley Retail & Restaurant Conference & Field

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Liberty Interactive Corporation to Present at Morgan Stanley Retail & Restaurant Conference & Field Trip

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Liberty Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB, LVNTA, LVNTB) announced that Mike George, President and CEO of QVC, Inc., will be presenting at the Morgan Stanley Retail & Restaurant Conference & Field Trip, on Friday, April 5th at 8:40 a.m., Eastern Time at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, FL. During his presentation, Mr. George may make observations regarding the company’s financial performance and outlook.

The presentation will be broadcast live via the Internet. All interested persons should visit the Liberty Interactive Corporation website at http://www.libertyinteractive.com/events to register for the webcast. An archive of the webcast will also be available on this website for 30 days.

About Liberty Interactive Corporation

Liberty Interactive Corporation operates and owns interests in a broad range of digital commerce businesses. Those interests are currently attributed to two tracking stock groups: Liberty Interactive Group and Liberty Ventures Group. The Liberty Interactive Group (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB) is primarily focused on digital commerce and consists of Liberty Interactive Corporation’s subsidiaries Backcountry.com, Bodybuilding.com, Celebrate Interactive (including Evite and Liberty Advertising), CommerceHub, MotoSport, Provide Commerce, QVC and Right Start, and Liberty Interactive Corporation’s interests in HSN and Lockerz. The Liberty Ventures Group (Nasdaq: LVNTA, LVNTB) consists of Liberty Interactive Corporation’s interests in TripAdvisor, Expedia, Interval Leisure Group, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Tree.com (Lending Tree), AOL and various green energy investments.

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Wendy Williams: From Syndicated Radio Host to National TV Star

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By Dan Schawbel, Contributor

I recently spoke to Wendy Williams, who is a media personality, actress and New York Times best-selling author. She hosts her own syndicated talk show, The Wendy Williams Show. Williams has gained notoriety for her on-air spats with celebrities. Williams was a contestant on the twelfth season of Dancing with the Stars. She was eliminated on April 5, 2011. Wendy Williams also sells a line of jewelry products on the home shopping network, QVC, called “Adorn by Wendy Williams“. Her upcoming book is called “Ask Wendy” and will be published by William Morrow in May. Follow her on Facebook or on Twitter @WendyWilliams. …read more
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Amazon and Apple Crush Competition in New Mobile Survey

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Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) place so high on most customer satisfaction surveys that the repetition has made the conclusions commonplace. Unfortunately for several financially battered retailers, their stumbling has not been helped by their satisfaction grades. The trends, both good and bad, have extended to mobile e-commerce.

Research firm Foresee issued its “ForeSee Mobile Satisfaction Index: Holiday Retail Edition.” The results are not terribly different from the Foresee e-commerce data for the same period. Retailers who do well online also do well with mobile activity. Of the 25 companies included:

Amazon tops the list at 85, with Apple (83), and QVC (83) close behind. Rounding out the top five are NewEgg (80) and Victoria’s Secret (80).

Almost no one has heard of PC hardware and parts company NewEgg. The balance of the companies are well known. Amazon had better be at the top of the list, for its own sake, since it has no physical stores to speak of. QVC does not either, because its other medium for sales is television. Apple and Victoria’s Secret must just try harder, although the popularity of their products may get mobile e-commerce buyers to have positive views of the merchandise under any circumstances.

Retailers that are in steep decline, in general, do not do well in the Foresee results. The Sears division of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) rates just one spot from the bottom. Also-ran discounter Overstock.com Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) also does poorly, and troubled online retailer Gilt does very badly as well.

In the range of merely mediocre are Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT), each of which have huge traffic and are among the top 50 most visited sites in the United States, according to Comscore. Their volumes of business are such that mid-tier performance in the Foresee survey probably does not hurt them much. Also in the middle of the rankings are Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), each of which needs to do better in e-commerce and in physical store activity to keep away from trends that already have caused questions about their viability.

On the whole, the companies that did poorly in the Foresee research cannot afford to.

Methodology: In a survey of more than 6,200 consumers collected during the peak holiday shopping season between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the retail juggernaut scored highest among 25 of the top mobile commerce companies. The report shows that consumer satisfaction with the mobile retail experience is improving, as the Index climbs two points since last holiday season to 78 on a 100-point scale.

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