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Quant

Mary. born 1934, British fashion designer, whose Chelsea Look of miniskirts and geometrically patterned fabrics dominated London fashion in the 1960s

quant

(QUANTitative analyst) A financial analyst who uses the computer and complex algorithms to develop derivatives and other intricate financial instruments. See quantitative.

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Working in marketing, advertising and sales for the company, Norman Satinoff had a front row seat for the exciting venture, even travelling to New York with Quant and her team to sell her designs to the US market.

Swinging Stockport; The launch of a new exhibition about the career of Mary Quant at the Victoria and Albert Museum has sparked fond memories for retired marketing man Norman Satinoff. Here, Norman, from Cheadle, tells the Manchester Evening News about his experience of working alongside the fashion legend - and the crucial role a Stockport business played in propelling one of her most iconic designs to success

Quant herself argued it was these women who brought about the skirt's birth, saying in 2009: "I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, in which you could run and jump and we would make them the length the customer wanted.

QUANT-UM OF SOLACE AT THE V&A

The exhibition starts in the post-World War II world of Quant's experimental first shop, Bazaar, in London in 1955, and shows how her designs ended up being produced for US chain stores and mail order companies.

THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM CELEBRATES MINI-SKIRT PIONEER MARY QUANT

This means that the assay meets WHO standards of quality, safety, performance and reliability, and allows global health organizations to consider the Aptima HIV-1 Quant Dx assay for public sector procurement in resource-limited settings.

Hologic's Aptima HIV-1 Quant Dx Assay Receives Two CE Marks, Making It the First and Only Dual-Claim Assay for Both Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis

Drogen formulated a session focusing on the quants and integrating their work into the PM's book.

Estimize Teaches Discretionary World About Quant Trading Data Science

The initial offering of the RBC Quant Global Real Estate Leaders ETF has now closed, and the ETF will begin trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Canada : RBC Global Asset Management launches RBC Quant Global Real Estate Leaders ETF

Beane, memorably played by Brad Pitt in the movie adaptation of the book, is thought of as the first "quant" to run a baseball team.

The Rise of the Machines in Investment Management

RBC Quant Emerging Markets Equity Leaders ETF (USD)*

RBC Global Asset Management Inc. announces RBC ETF Cash Distributions for March 2016

This delivery, financial details of which were not available, also includes the Quant Flow integration platform and is being implemented in its entirety as a software service delivery.

Rejlers Embriq announces signing of agreement with Troms Kraft Nett for Quant SmartGrid platform

Liechtenstein-based NanoFlowcell has launched an updated version of its electric sports-car concept called the Quant F, Leftlane News has reported.

NanoFlowcell launches Quant F

Quant, now 80, said she "couldn't have imagined" 50 years ago that the skirt would become a staple of women's clothing but said: "It seemed then to be obvious and so right."

A mini marvel; It is some 50 years since Mary Quant took the world by storm with her short skirt. Marion McMullen finds out the lengths women went to in the name of fashion

Nunzio La Vecchia, founder and head of development for the nanoFLOWCELL AG, said, 'In the coming months and years, we will work with our system development partner Bosch Engineering GmbH on further development and international homologation of the QUANT e-Sportlimousine.