Richard Baker
speaker
1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then we monetized the real estate and created value and did everything we could to keep the operating companies together and as strong as possible.
And I guess January of this past year, after having put Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Sachs, and the IP for Barneys all together in one entity, we had a run on the bank and
And we made the decision.
I made the decision that we should bankrupt the company in order to save the company and to save actually multi brand luxury in the United States by bankrupting the business.
We got them together.
We got synergies.
We saved all the jobs or most of the jobs.
We saved the relationships with the vendors.
And now they're coming out of bankruptcy this week and they'll be strong and successful and, and, uh, and merge together.
So, uh,
Our children and our grandchildren, hopefully, will still be able to shop at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman as we go forward.
Okay.
No, my father... So you want to go way back?
Let's go way back.
You want to go way back?
Yes.
OK, so I'm going to force you to go way back.
So so the story is that my grandmother, Sylvia, came from Poland in 1921 on July 4th through Ellis Island, didn't speak any English.
And she ended up marrying my grandfather.
They moved to Hoboken and where my grandfather was a lawyer.
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