All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Retail Manufacturing

Focusing on profitability puts Nike in a strong position.  Keeping an eye on the potential for its divisions instead of the performance will have lasting long term effects.

Continued growth for the Crocs brand as it expands into clothing and kiosk development.  Kiosk shop open at the John Wayne Airport in Southern California.  New Costco distribution with pricing under $22.00 a pair.  Crocs has a 5 %+ share of the "lifestyle casual" market and you can look...

Crocs a fashionable plastic cog is being banned from hospitals in the UK and Sweden after reports that static electricity, created by the plastic cogs, caused malfunctions in respirators and other sensitive hospital equipment.

  Crocs footwear has been on the market for several years and one of the earliest applications and heaviest sales involved nurses and other hospital people. They are light, extremely comfortable and inexpensive. They have now assumed popularity nationwide for the same reasons. If the static...

Social-networking sites are "a" new frontier of the playground, but they will become only part of the larger playground for 8-12 year old girls.

Changarros or Small Mom & Pop stores will continue to sell in Mexico because of: -Geography -Economic buying power -Sheer number of Changarros (about 750,000)

PVH needs to take total control over the CK Brand, not as a licensor, but as an owner of the brand.For PVH to grow domestically and max international growth PVH must buy back the CK Brand.CK Brands future lies in developing own retail stores and to build a profitable model the stores must have both...

1. Quality of Products manufactured in China need not necessarily be a representation of other countries of Asia who are extremely quality conscious. 2. In comparision to the past few years it appears China is not taking care of Quality which they have done at the start up of their growth. There may...

1. Quality issues are not new in China, what is new is that countries are using those as "technical trade barriers". 2. What is changing also is that China is making now more complex or health-sensitive products and is not experienced to do it

Kurt Darrow (La-Z-Boy, CEO) has proven himself to be the king of the understatement. In the latest report on Fiscal 1stQuarter results he stated: "Against the backdrop of ongoing challenging business conditions pervasive throughout the furniture industry, our results reflect a significant drop in volume,...