Committee Concerned For Children Names Shonk-Simmons Woman Of The Year.DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- June 6, 1996-- Spiegel, Inc., announced today that Georgia Shonk-Simmons, executive vice president of Spiegel subsidiary Newport News, Inc., was honored as the 1996 Woman of the Year by the Committee Concerned for Children, Inc. (CCC CCC A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa. ), for her 24 years of involvement in the fashion industry. Shonk-Simmons received the award at the CCC's annual dinner held in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of yesterday evening. She is responsible for the management of all merchandising and marketing activities, plus catalog design and production for Newport News. Shonk-Simmons joined Newport News in 1994 after a 13-year tenure at Spiegel where her last position was vice president, merchandising. She also served as vice president/corporate fashion director and director of product development. Prior to her work at Spiegel, she held merchandising positions at Lyttons, Carson Pirie Scott Carson Pirie Scott & Co., known informally as Carson's, is a chain of traditional department stores that have been in business for over 150 years. Their product price points are targeted to the moderate-to-upscale shopper. and Hahne's/ADG. Newport News, headquartered in New York, N.Y., is a specialty catalog company focusing on quality womens' apparel and home textiles at moderate price points. The CCC is a non-profit organization composed of women in the fashion industry who raise money for seriously ill children. The monies are donated to the various medical facilities within the Tri-State area of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York such as the Children's Blood Foundation, the Spina Bifida Association of America and the New York Society for Autistic autistic /au·tis·tic/ (aw-tis´tik) characterized by or pertaining to autism. Children. Spiegel, Inc., is a leading, mulitchannel specialty retailer marketing fashionable apparel and home furnishings to customers through catalogs, more than 400 specialty retail stores and innovative electronic platforms. Spiegel's other businesses include Eddie Bauer, Eddie Bauer HOME, AKA EDDIE BAUER, Newport News, E STYLE and For You from Spiegel. Spiegel's Class A Non-Voting Common Stock trades on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on National Market System under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors : SPGLA. CONTACT: Joy Villalino, 708/769-2590, Spiegel. |
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