163 ordspråk av Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
So there's no sense on Federated spending time turning things around at Lord & Taylor when the main event for Federated is the integration of May stores.
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Some retailers are already marking up 40- to 50-percent off signs as we speak.
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Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.
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State Street is now becoming very valuable property, and Carson's lease is way under-market.
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Steve is very familiar with taking properties like that and making them profitable.
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Stuckey's strategy would be to take a plain low-priced product like jeans and embellish it with design. Suddenly it becomes a 'fashion' jeans and appeals to a new ethnic audience. It's the same strategy with 7,
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That's something that you never see. But it is totally rational with a company in free fall.
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The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.
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The big picture is that we're a debtor nation but remain the most profligate spenders,
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The bigger issue for the entire retail space is that we have a weak economy, unemployment is rampant, corporate spending is down and corporate earnings are not improving.
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The brand as we know it is dead. Any brand that's built exclusively around a single personality can't survive something like this.
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The business is getting smaller -- the advertising, the TV, the magazine -- everything is going down. This company is not going to go away tomorrow. However, the losses are getting scary.
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The company has remodeled its stores several times and is also trying to sell its credit business . But when the smoke clears, it's anyone's guess as to how many more years Sears can go on like this.
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The company's only chance to move to a new chapter is to have a roadmap of everything that's going to happen with Martha, ... The company is set up for her to come back. The question is, what role should she come back in?
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The energy cost in the equation is grossly underestimated, ... The consumer is already stretched to the limit and doesn't have an extra $1,000 to pay if the home bill goes up.
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