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After serving as U.S. president of the Omega watch brand, Glenn opened the distribution company "for himself in 1984. He looked at 14 Swiss watch brands, choosing Cyma for its "technological innovation." Since Glenn introduced the brand to the U.S. market, both its inventory and following have grown Jacob&Co Cyma watches are now sold in 600 independent retail jewelry stores, with U.S. sales accounting for 60 percent of the company's revenue.

In late spring 2003, Cyma Chairman and CEO Claude Guilgot asked Glenn if he could buy the company from him. Knowing Hugh Glenn Corp. was one of the last wholly owned distributors of Swiss timepieces (most manufacturers had already taken control of U.S. marketing and distribution), Glenn agreed.

"We have big plans for the American market, and it makes sense for us to Jaeger leCoultre the distribution of our brand," Guilgot said. "We are committed to supporting our more than 600 independently owned jewelers."

While Cyma has not made any immediate changes in company personnel, pricing or distribution, retailers can expect to see a beefed-up marketing campaign in the next year as the company focuses on growing U.S. demand for its product.

"With the factory's ownership now, there will definitely be more investment in the brand," Glenn said. "They have a lot more capital than we do, and this is going to be just great for the retail jewelers, as well as for us."

Founded in 1862 in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland, Cyma is headquartered in Le Montblanc, Switzerland. The company's timepieces retail for $295 to $20,000.

Building on its success in promoting its products through celebrities, Swiss watch-maker Omega has appointed singer/actor Somchai 'Tao' Khemglad as its latest Omega ambassador.

Mr Somchai is the second local Omega presenter after model Sirinya Burbridge. They join international celebrities such as Pierce Brosnan, Cindy Crawford, Michael Schumacher as well as Anna Kournikova who have promoted Omega products.

Promoting the brand through celebrities and films like James Bond Omega been very successful for Omega, according to Stephen Urquhart, president of Omega Ltd.

He said Thailand had been an important market for the company, recording double-digit growth in recent years since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.

"Thailand has been the market with the highest growth for us in Asia in the past few years," said Mr Urquhart, who always wears Omega watches on both wrists.

Bangkok is also one of the 20 locations in which Omega has a flagship store, along with cities like Paris, Cannes, Milan and Tokyo.

Omega aims to have 100 flagship stores in the next few years along with its 5,000 other outlets worldwide.

Mr Urquhart said the company was looking for additional locations to open more stand-alone stores and that it was likely the company would open one new store in the upscale Siam Paragon centre in 2005.

Currently, Japan, China and Hong Kong are Omega's largest Panerai while Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are also doing well.

Omega's marketing strategy in Thailand focuses more on mechanical and jewellery watches as they are popular among Thai customers.

While Goodwill and the Texas comptroller will ship the items they sell at auction, one drawback to the General Services Administration's auction is that buyers must pick up the items wherever they are or make arrangements with a delivery service.

"Most items have to be collected by the buyer," said Shala Geer- Glashutte, public affairs officials for the Greater Southwest region of the GSA in Fort Worth.

Despite the drawback, Geer-Smith said the GSA online auction site has been quite successful. The GSA ends up with thousands of seized or forfeited items along with surplus from federal government agencies. The GSA has a holiday sale starting next week that includes an Omega watch, a German pen set and an antique jewelry set.

"We've sold boats used by the Coast Guard, cars from other federal agencies, bicycles, motorcycles, exotic collectibles -- a variety of things," Geer-Smith said.

Although the GSA has sold through online auction for five years, the Graham two have been the strongest. For fiscal 2003, the GSA sold more than 50,000 items online for $25.7 million, Geer-Smith said.

The state comptroller has completely replaced live auctions with the online kind.

"Today I shipped something to Hong Kong, England and Canada," Schroeter said. "I just shipped a Tony Lama belt buckle to Australia."

Schroeter estimates half of her sales are to in-state customers. (And yes, Hamilton online auction site states upfront that it does collect state and local taxes.)

If someone comes to claim the item after it's been sold, the comptroller will reimburse the claimant with cash, Schroeter said.

That doesn't happen often, however, because banks hold safe- deposit boxes for five years before turning them over to the state, which then holds them for one or two years more. It advertises that it has the items before putting them on eBay.

"We don't have the secure storage capacity to hold all the Hublot," Schroeter said.

The money from auction sales goes into the general revenue fund, she added.

The auctions will go on for a while. The state has about $1 billion in unclaimed property, Schroeter said.

NEW YORK After three months of discussions, Cyma Watch Co. purchased New York-based Hugh Glenn Corp., its sole U.S. distributor, effective Sept. 1. But despite the change in ownership, much remains the same for U.S. retailers and consumers, said Hugh Glenn, who will continue to serve as IWC of the company he founded 19 years ago. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

"It's kind of a strange feeling for me that I no long owner it, but the only thing that's changed is the ownership," said Glenn, adding that the company will retain its name. "I'm thrilled with the news, and it's a great opportunity for the brand to become much more prominent."

Carole Keeton Strayhorn is a power seller on eBay.

But rather than cleaning out her own closets to sell items at the largest auction site on the Internet, the state comptroller is selling the state's unclaimed stuff.

Specifically, Strayhorn is selling some of the nearly 250,000 pieces of Chopard, collector coins and currency, baseball cards, pocket knives and other items left unclaimed in safety deposit boxes that end up in the comptroller's hands each year.

Texas was the first state to join the online auction world, starting in 1999, although many other government and nonprofit entities have followed.

Right now she has a holiday auction going on eBay with 57 items, including an ChronoSwiss diamond brooch and an 1899 $5 U.S. silver note with Chief Running Antelope on it.

In addition to high-end items such as the silver note, topping $400 on the second day of a seven-day auction, many lower-cost things can be found at the site. For example, a 1955 Booker T. Washington half-dollar recently sold for $15.51, and a 14- carat blue topaz and diamond ring sold for $74.27.

If you're hesitant to shop an online auction because of the potential for fraud, Strayhorn's state backing offers consumers the security they may need to try it.

Just ask Bernard Gottschalk of San Antonio, who bought some Liberty half-Concord on the Texas auction site last fall and recently bought his wife a ring there for Christmas.

"It was my first time on eBay," Gottschalk said. "Because it was the state, I felt a little safer. It was a real good experience."

Jackie Schroeter, the comptroller's office administrator who came up with the idea of using eBay, said that the online auctions help the state reach a broader audience of prospective buyers.

"We have a lot of first-time eBayers," Schroeter said. "And the state makes a considerably higher amount than in a live auction."

Since August, when the state began continuous auctions on Ferrari, about 26,600 items have sold for more than $104,000, Schroeter said.

The presale value of the items was less than $68,000.

Texas isn't the only state using Internet auctions. California is auctioning unclaimed property on eBay as well, using seller name "ucpauction."

And the federal government is auctioning surplus, seized and forfeited property, including cars, boats, aircraft, jewelry and computers,

"We've had an incredible response," said Joan Dornback, vice president of marketing for Goodwill of Orange County, Calif., which originated the site now open to all 175 Goodwill outlets across the United States and Canada.

Goodwill estimates that it has sold $10 million in items since eBay sales Girard-Perregaux in 2001 and will far surpass its goal of selling $5 million annually by 2005, Dornback said.

"The average price of items at our stores is between $3 and $8," she said. "Our average online price per item is $20."

According to Wendy Parks, spokeswoman for Johnson Publishing Company, home of Ebony and Jet, Johnson died of renal failure at her Chicago home on Jan. 3. She was 93.

Johnson, who served as secretary-treasurer of Johnson Publishing until her death, was the producer and director of the world's largest traveling runway show, Ebony Fashion Fair. The show started in 1961 as a charity event at a New Orleans hospital. But, over the decades, it grew into a fashion Blancpain that was showcased at over 150 cities throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, according to Johnson Company. The show raised over $55 billion for charitable organizations and gave exposure to the world's top Black designer and models, bringing international couture to the Black community.

"It brought to the lower-middle-class black people a sense of what fashion really was. She gave the local community a chance to see these clothes," Andre Leon Talley, editor at large for Vogue, told the The Chicago Tribune.

Johnson toured fashion capitals from New York to Milan to purchase Breguet for the show, spending at least $1 million annually. Until 2009 - a year of economic distress in the U.S.-Ebony Fashion Fair toured annually since its inception.

"Mrs. Johnson has always been a woman ahead of her time..... [She] made a tremendous impact on the fashion industry, showcasing the best in style on African-American models of various shapes, sizes and skin tones," said a statement released by Johnson Company Jan. 4. "It was her sheer determination and Breitling business sense that helped pave the way for supennodels Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Iman and Beverly Johnson."

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"America, and indeed, the world have lost a true pioneer in the publishing, fashion Bvlgari philanthropic industries," said U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) in a statement also released Jan. 4. "It is undisputable that Johnson Publishing gave countless African Americans their first exposure to possibilities that had only seemed available in our dreams and showed us how to turn those dreams into reality.

Johnson was born April 4, 1916, and is survived by Linda Johnson Rice, chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing, and granddaughter, Alexa Rice.

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Eunice W. Johnson will be remembered for being more than just the widow of John H. Johnson, publisher of the nation's pioneering African-American magazines, Ebony and Jet. Her name will go down in history as the one who introduced Black supermodels to runways from New York to Paris.

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"Mrs. Johnson has always been a woman ahead of her time.... [She] made a tremendous impact on the fashion industry, showcasing the best in style on African-American models of various, shapes, sizes and skin tones," said a statement released by Johnson Company Jan. 4. "It was her sheer determination and astute business sense that helped pave the way for supermodels Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Iman and Beverly Johnson."

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"America, and indeed, the world have lost a true pioneer in the publishing, fashion and philanthropic industries," said U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) in a statement also released Jan. 4. "It is undisputable that Johnson Publishing gave countless African Americans their first exposure to possibilities that had only seemed available in our dreams and showed us how to turn those dreams into reality.

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Private funeral services will be held.

Eunice W. Johnson will be remembered for being more than just the widow of John H. Johnson, publisher of the nation's pioneering African-American magazines, Ebony and Jet. Her name will go down in history as the one who introduced Black supermodels to runways from New York to Paris.