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Moores, Clothing for Men, is a Canadian brand specialized in tailor-made clothing for men similar to Tip Top Tailors or Classys. It is an affiliate to Men's Wearhouse, from the U.S.
The store was founded by Martin Prosserman in 1980 when it opened its first location in Mississauga in the Greater Toronto Area. Moores is owned by the Moores Retail Group who also owns GoldenBrand clothing in Montreal. In 1999 the Moores Retail Group was bought by Men's Wearhouse. Today, in Canada Moores has 126 retail locations situated all over Canada and employs over 1200 people. Its current headquarters are in Toronto.
The stores sell a wide variety of footwear, tuxedo rentals, office wear, outerwear, ties and many more articles for workers or special occasions.
Its ad slogan is: "Well made, Well Priced, Well Dressed"
In September 2008 Men's Wearhouse selected the New York advertising agency DeVito/Verdi to handle its national advertising and marketing communications account. The assignment calls for the agency to provide full service marketing support and to develop strategic planning, advertising, public relations, market planning, promotions, and P-O-S programs. In addition to the Men’s Wearhouse brand, DeVito/Verdi will also handle marketing for the company’s other retail brands: K&G, MW Tux, Moores Clothing For Men (Canada), as well as new projects in development.
Moores is a Canadian chain of clothing stores.
Moores may also refer to:
Places:
- Moores, former name of Riverton, California
- Moores Flat, California, a former settlement
- Moores Hill, Indiana
- Moores Branch, a stream in Kansas and Missouri
People with the surname Moores:
- Aaron Moores, British swimmer
- Dick Moores, comic strip creator whose best known work was for the comic strip Gasoline Alley
- Frank Moores, Canadian politician and businessman.
- John Moores (baseball), American businessman
- Peter Moores (businessman) (1932–2016), British businessman, art collector and philanthropist
- Peter Moores (cricketer), English cricketer and coach
Usage examples of "moores".
They made cracks about the power bill, and how Warden Moores would cook his Thanksgiving dinner that fall, with his wife, Melinda, too sick to cook.
If the governor ordered Warden Moores to fire me for ruffling the wrong set of feathers, who was Hal Moores going to put in my place?
The year before, when a prisoner had rushed him in the exercise yard with a shank whittled out of a crate-slat, Moores had stood his ground, grabbed the skatehound's wrist, and had twisted it so hard that the snapping bones had sounded like dry twigs burning in a hot fire.
I could get there at six, which was the time Warden Moores usually came in.
I thought Warden Moores was better than that, but it never crossed my mind to do the business I had originally come for, and when I left Moores's office, I walked over to E Block instead of back to my car.
I would get through the day somehow, I reckoned, get Wharton settled in, check back with Hal Moores that afternoon, and get my sick-leave for tomorrow.
Hal Moores had some sick-leave piled up - not a lot, they didn't give you a lot in those days, but he took what he had so he could help her do what she had to do.
Still, when Moores tipped the mason jar at me, wordlessly asking if I wanted the other half, I shook my head and waved it off.
And, as Moores had pointed out, Delacroix's nuts were going to fry no matter who was out front.
All my real idea was right then, however, was an odd realization: that John Coffey and Melinda Moores, different as they might have been in size and sex and skin color, had exactly the same eyes: woeful, sad, and distant.
I knew Melinda Moores better than the others did, but maybe not, in the end, well enough to ask them to risk their jobs for her - and possibly their freedom, as well.
So when I suggested that another miracle might result if we took John Coffey to Melinda Moores, they didn't outright laugh.
I thought the real Warden Moores was the man who'd once broken the wrist of a skatehound who tried to stab him.
Did I think that Hal Moores would stand meekly aside and let us bring a convicted child-murderer into his house to lay hands on his wife?
There stood Hal Moores in blue pajama pants and a strapstyle tee-shirt, his iron-gray hair standing up in tufts and twists.