There has, I gather, been some discussions/speculation about the circumstances under which a publicly traded company can be delisted from a stock exchange. I don’t claim to be an expert in this. It’s different for each exchange and I guess not set in stone. But as there seems to be some interest, I thought I’d lay out what I found out about the process for the NASDAQ market.
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November 20 2008 |
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Back in May, ESPN filed a suit against Quiksilver alleging the company was using a mark confusingly similar to the X mark used for the X Games. Now it looks like the rolls have reversed, and ESPN will face allegations in court that its X logo violates Quiksilver’s Gen X clothing trademark.
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November 19 2008 |
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Every time I look at somebody’s (pretty much anybody’s) September 30th quarterly report, I see the beginnings of the recession, and worry about what these things will look like when we see the ones for the December 31st quarter. I know everybody else is worrying about that as well. Worrying doesn’t really help. All you can do is run your business well and that seems to be what Columbia is doing.
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November 14 2008 |
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I wrote about the quarter’s results when they came out with their press release. I’m not going to repeat that analysis, you can go back and read it if you want. I said I would follow up when I had the more detailed actual filing. Now that I have it, there are some points I want to highlight.
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November 11 2008 |
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I imagined you noticed recently that the retailer, No Fear, proposed a merger to the board of directors of Orange 21 (Spy Optics). Orange announced November 5th that they were not considering it. We’ll see what, if anything happens next. But in the meantime, I think it’s instructive to review a little of the history and relationships that exist between Orange 21 and No Fear. And there may be a lesson for companies battling to manage through the recession.
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November 10 2008 |
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VF owns Vans, Reef, Nautica, Wrangler, Jans Sport, Eagle Creek, Lee, Majestic, Red Cap, Lucy, Rustler and other brands as well. They organize their business and report in six segments, which they call Coalitions; Jeanswear, Outdoor, Imagewear, Sportswear, Contemporary Brands, and Other. Read more about their latest quarter ended September 30.
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November 07 2008 |
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It’s Monday morning and the DOW at the moment is up 575 points, so obviously all our problems are solved. Just kidding. But at the very least, the coordinated international approach to beginning to manage some of the issues of bank solvency is working to reduce irrational panic. I’m guessing we’ll have an announcement from the U.S. Treasury shortly that they are doing much the same thing the Europeans did. If there is no such announcement, we might have the arbitrage moment from hell, as money flows out of non guaranteed banks in the U.S. to guaranteed banks in Europe. Read more here.
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October 13 2008 |
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Everyone knows the stock market is experiencing rapid decline. “Markets tanked Thursday, extending the Dow’s losses over the last seven sessions to 2,271 points, or 20%, as panicked investors ditched stocks across the board,” according to a story published this morning on CNN.com. But what does that mean for our industry?
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October 10 2008 |
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As I write this on Friday, we may be finding the bottom. We went down big yesterday with big volume. If we can follow through today, plummeting on huge, panic driven volume, we might find a bottom. Maybe even bounce before the close. Complete panic, with everybody giving up in total despair, is the key to a finding a bottom many people seem to think. Read more thoughts here.
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October 10 2008 |
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The boardshorts product class was the third-highest volume apparel class in the ActionWatch Retail Panel during the latest twelve-month period tracked (following fleece tops and T-shirts). Read more here.
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October 09 2008 |
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