Kira's dad is trying to blame the U.S. economy for the failure but I think it has more to do with the awful clothing and a serious miscalculation about how to break the U.S. market. I remember wondering how she was able to open so many U.S. stories so quickly without building her brand. Apparently her dad just opened his checkbook. You can't just buy your way in to the U.S. market. You have to establish a name first.
Apparently the closing of the stores were under very shady circumstances and there are a lot of disgruntled employees who were treated very poorly and lost their jobs without notice or severance pay.
http://theshophound.typepad.com/the_...ets-worse.html
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I was a manager at one of the Kira Plastinina shops and am so disgusted with how the company went about with everything. There was so much discrimination, people who weren't paid, frustrations and scandals. Its crazy to think a company could away with so much. We were given less than a weeks notice about our jobs being let go..some people weren't given anything and just fired on the spot with NO reasons or explanations. We are at the point where we are getting kicked out of our locations, no rent has ever been paid, no electric bills have been paid and all our vendors will go bankrupt if the company doesn't find a way to pay them which I'm sure they won't. Our Russian head Director is in the USA and is going around to locations and taking the merchandise with her husband and computers etc. It's nuts we are so astounded. We are at the point where we are fighting for our paychecks. We all believe this was a cover up for some kind of dirty work or drug deal..something. But this company has been nothing but savage to us. They caused us soo much stress and pain it's unreal. Lawsuits are crazy and all of us were so mistreated. We worked SOO SOO hard for nothing. They just slapped us in the face
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