Study Group: Toy Retailers Experts
Council Members in this Study Group: 67
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
- Howard Jackson
President
HSA Consulting, Inc
Howard Jackson is the President of HSA Consulting Inc., the world's premier warehouse club, discount & food retail consulting firm, since 1993. He is the leading expert on the Mexican retail market. HSA provides retail strategy, productivity/cost improvement,...
James BaumPresident
James E Baum & AssociatesJames Baum has been the President of James E Baum & Associates, a consultancy focusing on the toy, mass market and specialty retail industries, since 1998 . Mr. Baum has more than 40 years of experience in the retail industry and is familiar with a wide...
Robert CurtisPresident
Curtis Associates, Inc.Robert Curtis is the President of Massachusetts based, Curtis Associates since 1986, a full service distributor and manufacturer's representative firm for the Toy, Gift, Grocery and Housewares Industry serving United States based retailers. Mr. Curtis...
- Thomas Kalinske
Vice Chairman
LEAPFROG ENTERPRISES, INC.Thomas Kalinske is the Vice Chairman of LeapFrog Enterprises. LeapFrog is an educational toy and school products company with approximately $650M in annual sales. Mr. Kalinske has extensive experience as Chief Executive Officer of four consumer products...
Thomas SouzaChief Executive Officer
Personalized ExpertsThomas Souza is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Personalized Experts, a rapidly growing marketing and promotions company. Personalized Experts offers almost one million promotional items including shirts, silk screening, embroidery, direct...
GLG NewsSM Analyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)
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Retail Sales headed deeper South in Q1
January 12, 2009
Analysis by: Thomas Souza, Chief Executive Officer ,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.
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Fact or Fiction Anchor Mall Real Estate has no value
December 22, 2008
Analysis by: Michael Miller, Former Independent Consultant,PREIT, Cafaro Lend Boscov's a Helping Hand | www.printthis.clickability.com
Is it fact or fiction that Real Estate Value of Department Stores in Malls has no value. Loans to Department stores prove nothing....
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PRIVATE EQUITY FEELING THE PINCH
April 15, 2008
Analysis by: Thomas Souza, Chief Executive Officer ,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.
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Circuit City one foot into the grave yard - Can they survive????
April 10, 2008
Analysis by: Thomas Souza, Chief Executive Officer ,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.
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December 28, 2007
Analysis by: Michael Miller, Former Independent Consultant,Wal-Mart Gets Discount on Land Purchase | chicagorealestatedaily.com
The article while factual just scratches the surface of center development. It just gives an indication of one of the incentives available to major tenants.
Members in this Study Group include these company types:
- Toy & Hobby Retailer
- Retail Strategy / Operations Consultant
- Toy & Hobby Manufacturer
- Mass Merchandisers and Discounters
- Retail Trade Association / Publication
Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Director
- President
- Store Manager
- Owner
- Consultant
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GLG Live Meetings with this Study Group's Leading Experts (?)
October 10, 2007 | New York
GLGi: Toy Industry UpdateApril 19, 2007 | Boston
GLGi: Toy Industry UpdateApril 18, 2007 | New York
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