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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I have an older son who's an artist.
He's an abstract oil painter.
Went to the Royal College of Art in London.
And I have a daughter who's getting a degree in forensic psychology at John Jay in New York.
I worked for over a decade to buy Neiman Marcus.
Because merging it with Saks created the $600 million of synergies.
So if you wanted to save the luxury multi-brand category in the United States, you needed to put them all together.
They didn't work.
competing with each other.
Because there just wasn't enough margin in selling other people's goods to support the kind of service level that people expected.
Not much.
Right?
Not much.
They're the same stuff.
That's why it was so much synergy.
Yes.
Because the same person who bought, you know, handbags could buy handbags for Neiman Sachs and Bergdorf.
Bergdorf is special and more elevated.
And they still have a separate team.
But there's a lot of economies of scale putting all these businesses together.
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