As you have no doubt heard, Billabong has reached a deal with “…entities advised by Altamont and entities sub-advised by GSO Capital Partners1 (the credit arm of the Blackstone Group, and together with Altamont, the “Altamont Consortium”)” to sell Dakine to Altamont, get bridge financing to pay off its existing syndicated bank debt, put together […]
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I’ve gotten out of the habit of reviewing A&F’s results, but a cursory look at their 10Q intrigued me. You don’t typically see sales fall 9% while pretax income for the quarter improved (if that’s what you want to call it) from a loss of $30 million in last year’s quarter to a loss of $15
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There’s never time to write about everything I want to write about, and The Buckle is one that has often slipped through the cracks. And while there’s nothing dramatic to report, I thought it might be time to take a short look at their results. At the end of the quarter, The Buckle operated 443 stores
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For the quarter ended May 4, Tilly’s sales were $109 million. In last year’s quarter ending April 28, 2012, sales were $96.5 million. That 13% sales growth. But further down the income statement, we find that income before taxes fell 35% from $5.9 to $2.3 million. What went on? NOTE: Net income fell even more, from $5.9 to $2.3
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It’s Friday evening, my wife is out of town, and a friend sent me this article from May 20 announcing the debut referenced in the title. I’ve had a glass of wine and think I’m going to break a rule and have another one as I write this. Or more. God knows what I’ll end up saying. If you
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This, happily, won’t be like the short novel I had to write for Quiksilver. There are some interesting conference call comments and two income statement entries crying out for a brief discussion, but that’s pretty much it. Let’s get going. Sales rose 4.7% from $162.3 in the quarter last year ended April 28, 2012 to $169.8 million
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Quiksilver reported a net loss of $32.4 million in the quarter ended April 30 compared to a loss of $5 million in the same quarter last year. They also released information on their efforts to reduce costs and refocus the business. To start, here’s a link to the press release in the 8K with the financial
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What We Know Billabong announced yesterday that there would not (at least at the present time) be a sale of the entire company to either the Sycamore Consortium (which includes Paul Naude) or to the Altamont/VF group. The company further announced that they were still talking to both groups “…regarding proposals presented to the Company for
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Zumiez’s 10Q and conference call for its quarter ended May 4th offered some insight into its growth strategy that I think are worth reviewing. Some of it isn’t new, but taken together the comments are interesting. Some Points of Strategy At the end of the quarter, Zumiez had 503 stores; 475 in the United States,
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When I first read about this deal, I thought “Good for the team at OTZ. I hope K-Swiss does well by them” and kind of let it go. Then at a reader’s urging, and through a few clicks on the internet, I decided there might be something to write about here. I don’t have any information that isn’t
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