Blair Corp.’s Nandkeolyar Serves Up 2009 Survival Tactics

On Innovation:
Nandkeolyar considers this to be the best and worst time for innovation. While Blair is working on several different initiatives that “are pretty innovative,” it’s also scaling back on others to limit risks on launches and make sure none of its mainline businesses are put at risk.

Still, Blair’s intent is to “keep doing things, fine-tune strategies and roll them out,” Nandkeolyar said. “You don’t want to lose that time and opportunity because the market is flat.”