Volcom filed their 10Q in the last couple of days. There’s some good news here, though of course Volcom’s income statement for the quarter and six months reflects the impact of the recession. And the issue of how to manage their PacSun business is an interesting one. Let’s start with the balance sheet. Read more here…
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Last April, TransWorld Business published its first annual State Of Surf Hardgoods Report. After polling more than 100 leading retailers and 50 top shapers, we presented the results. This year we’ve done it again, except better. We polled more retailers and manufacturers, asked more targeted questions, and got more accurate results. In addition, we’re now able to draw comparative conclusions based on last year’s data.
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Retailers in the ActionWatch same-store data set experienced surf/skate product revenues down 19.4% in February compared to the same month last year.
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Zumiez, Inc. filed its 10-K statement on March 23. Unless you’re some kind of masochist, then you probably don’t want to read the entire thing. So, here are some interesting bullet points from the document.
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One of the most interesting presentations of the conference came from WSL Strategic Retail CEO Wendy Liebmann, who discussed results from a study her company conducted called “How America Shops In Crisis”. How long does this expert think the economy will affect consumer behavior? Forever! Read why right here.
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On March 9–11 some of the world’s leading minds in the field of retail research met in Los Angeles for the 2009 Envirosell Science Of Shopping Conference. The conference was started by environmental psychologist, best-selling author, and Envirosell Founder Paco Underhill. Here’s video footage, data, and market insight from his presentation.
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Orange 21 is giving each of its existing shareholders the right to buy one share of its common stock for $0.80 cents for each share they currently own or warrant they have. Before the offering, they had 8,199,314 shares outstanding. Assuming that everybody buys the shares, they would have 17,744,128 shares outstanding afterwards and would raise $7,635,851.20
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Reading and analyzing Quik’s 10K helped clarify some issues for me about industry strategy and the economy. I want to use some of their positioning statements to talk about how we compete in the much larger market we are, or want to be, a part of. When I say “much larger market” I mean the fashion driven market and the customers and potential customers who don’t skate, surf, or snowboard.
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Transworld Business surveyed 185 leading surfboard retailers from around the county in order to present an accurate assessment of the surf hardgoods market. In this second installment of results, we’re breaking down how retailers in the U.S. are stocking their boardrooms by construction/ materials.
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In an effort to provide our readers with the most comprehensive coverage of the current retail climate as possible, Transworld Business has developed a new monthly column we’re calling Retail Round Up. In this installment we examine monthly same-store sales results for more than a dozen retailers that cater to the teen/ young adult market
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