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The Sears bankruptcy saga front and center | Retail Lifestyle Insight

The continuing saga of bad investments at Sears and JC Penney now contrasts more starkly with winning battles of GAP (US:GPS) and Macy’s(US:M) among others even as Apple and Amazon continue climbing into new rarified air every week. While Amazon

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Posted in Financial Markets

Gap recovers, Esprit spirals towards Sale | Deal Insight – The Retail Lifestyle also rans

  Of course, in keeping with the series’ semantics and character, because both GAP and Esprit have been out of Retail Lifestyle Winner shortlists for a long time and may remain so, but luxury retail has already tried with private

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Posted in Amitonomics, China, Emerging Markets, India Infrastructure, Retail Lifestyle, US

The ups & downs of retail and Private equity | Newsweek.com

In 2006 and 2007 they used loads of debt to purchase huge, cyclical companies at absurd valuations. But some retail companies are still turning in a profit

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Posted in Financial Markets, Financial Services, Investments, Mergers etc, US