Mercedes Gonzalez Articles

Mercedes R. Gonzalez has been a buyer in the garment industry since 1988. Her passion for the industry started when she was 14 years old and went to work every summer for her uncle who owned and operated a manufacturing company in the heart of the garment district in New York. After graduating from New York University where she earned her degree in economics, she went back to work full time with her uncle. She changed the operation of the company by moving production overseas, streamlining the company and insuring a stronger bottom line. Soon after Mercedes decided to try buying and was hired by one of the largest buying offices at the time, Frederick Atkins. She had participation in private label for such stores as Dillard's and Harvey Nickels of England. She soon went to work at one of the member stores Gonzalez Padin in Puerto Rico and her love for international trade grew. In the last 20 years Mercedes has worked with some of the most important buying offices in the country and has helped to open or restructure hundreds of stores in the United States and abroad, including the inaugural Sears store in Panama.

Regularly featured in industry publications, such as Women's Wear Daily, Mercedes also teaches workshops on successful retailing at industry trade shows such as MAGIC and WSA and at regional markets in Atlanta, California and Dallas.

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www.justshopboutique.com

www.littleshopofretial horrors.com

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