tated goal is to
             improve conditions for international workers. Gap Inc. acknowledged that
             many of the international factories manufacturing their goods and services
             did not meet with their point by point expectation analysis on the issues
             of ethical international manufacturing.
             Relationship to other Brands Within the Parent Company
             Though Banana Republic has historically represented a higher end line
             of clothing for Gap Inc., tending to maintain higher, overhead retail
             stores and retaining outlet retail services within catalog and recently
             higher end outlet malls. They basically maintained a shabby sheik veneer
             with a lower profile marketing scheme. Banana Republic markets a more
             global product line. Associating their retail line with global product
             sources and styles. The Banana Republic has been associated with a market
             tactic of engendering travel and old style colonialist nostalgia. (Sardar,
             2000, pg 1) "The Banana Republic makeover will be t
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