Teen focused jewelry and fashion accessory retailer Claire’s Stores has more than 2,800 stores in Europe and the U.S. It was the “beneficiary” of a leveraged buyout (LBO) back in the giddy days of 2007. The debt it acquired in that process, along with the over retailed, soft economy, online selling environment has pushed it
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You may remember that until a few months ago Spy, as a public company, was releasing the usual filings and I was analyzing them. But they stopped releasing them and, though still public, its shares are now traded on the OTC pink sheets under the symbol XSPY. As I wrote every quarter, I always liked
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Well, the press release was back on June 3rd. And the sale of Sector 9 was, I guess, a week ago. Happily, it’s not my job to be timely, but to give you things to think about with the goal of maybe helping you do better business. So let’s think about Billabong. Back when CEO
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At almost the same time Abercrombie & Fitch (owner of Hollister), Tilly’s, The Buckle, and Genesco (owner of the Journeys chain) released, in early June, 10-Qs for their quarters that ended April 30th. I was going to do my usual thing and review each one separately. But I was busy, too much time passed and
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What I most liked about Agenda this time was how refreshingly inviting it was. Lots of open space and perhaps wider aisles. Maybe lighter? Especially on Wednesday, there appeared to be a lot of traffic and people seemed upbeat. Apparently that might have had something to do with getting a few days of sun after
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