GLG News by Anvil Knitwear Experts: Retailers

Thomas SouzaChief Executive Officer Personalized Experts

How to survive retail in 2010

June 9, 2010

Analysis of:Retail Sales | www.personalizedexperts.com

How to survive the retail market in 2010 and beyond. Market changes are inevitable, fluctuations in sales and earnings will continue. Democrat spending out of control and will remain that way until November elections. Beware of false positives as they may lead you to things are improving. Though minimal improvement is upon us we are not out of the woods.

Thomas SouzaChief Executive Officer Personalized Experts

Retail Sales headed deeper South in Q1

January 12, 2009

Analysis of:U.S. Retail Sales Fell 0.8% in Week After Christmas | www.bloomberg.com

Retail sales will continue to struggle as consumer confidence continues strong decline.  Q1 may show weekest sales yet before slightly turning around in 2nd half of the year. All signs head to lower confidence, but as soon as Obama takes office the landscape might change slightly.  I believe just his enthusiam will bring back a bit of confidence which may help perception in the market. The BIGGEST issue will be are we too little to late for some retailers to survive.  GREED! and LARGE overhead will cause some retailers to fall off the hill sooner than expected.  Cutbacks have not worked and baloon payments are coming do... who will survive?  Many retailers especially descretionary income retailers will have to tighten the belt even further and make dramatic changes in order to survive this downturn.  Retail is here to stay we all know that, these adjustments will help you decide where to put your money in the future. 

Joseph GoldsteinChief Executive OfficerRID Corp

Late on the subject

May 29, 2008

Analysis of:Sears' Hip-Hop Hope: Store Signs LL Cool J To Do Apparel Brand | www.wwd.com

Sears has once again proven to be late in recognizing fashion trends. Hip Hop although not dead as a music trends is dead as a fashion trend. Even the biggest names in Hip-Hop clothing has hit thee skids, whether it be Rockawear or John John or any of the so called urban labels. It is unfortunate when these names would have been important that Sears slept.

Joseph GoldsteinChief Executive OfficerRID Corp

The best and the brightest!!

May 12, 2008

Analysis of:Li & Fung boss predicts BRIC retail expansion | www.just-style.com

     Li and Fung not only is one of the biggest sourceing companies in Asia and one of the best financed and diversified, it is run by two od the brightest men in the industry. They are both educated in the United States and one has taught at Harvard Business School. They know the business and have established themselves as leaders.      They already own the license for Calvin Klien Asia and has been rolling stores out at a steady clip. Their success their will only lead to others willing to give them Licenses for other labels.     Their experience and knowledge of both China and India gives them unique advantages over their competitor in these nations.     For these reasons and their track record of success in every area they have involved themselves I believe they accomplish hat they have outlined.Joseph Goldstein

Thomas SouzaChief Executive Officer Personalized Experts

PRIVATE EQUITY FEELING THE PINCH

April 15, 2008

Analysis of:Home Retailer Expected to File For Bankruptcy | online.wsj.com

Private Equity Firms;  the squeeze is just beginning.  Overpaying, loading companies with debt with little financial risk investment from private equity has been the norm for almost 10 years.  TIMES R CHANGING.  Banks have begun to reel back financing and companies cannot afford the heavy debt load.  Senior Executives (Baby Boomers) are retiring and CEO's are hard to find.

Thomas SouzaChief Executive Officer Personalized Experts

Circuit City one foot into the grave yard - Can they survive????

April 10, 2008

Analysis of:Circuit City Critic Stirs It Up | online.wsj.com

That fact that this is Circuit City is the article headline only leads way to retail 2008.  Can we take another round of mergers and acquisitions.  Does the independant survive?  How does Circuit City stabalize and survive during an economic crisis.  Is it over for Circuit City?  Soft numbers for the rest of 2008 and into spring of 2009.

Joseph GoldsteinChief Executive OfficerRID Corp

It is a reasonable expectation

November 8, 2006

Analysis of:Jupiter predicts $32B in online holiday sales | www.retailingtoday.com

1) This growth will contribute to slower retail sales at store level.
2) Makes the net an important factor for any and all retailers to join in.

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