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Best Buy’s Founder is Forced Out as Ex-CEO Receives $6.6 million Severance

May 16, 2012 by Ted 2 Comments

<May 16, 2012> The news out of Best Buy Stores, Inc. continues to be ugly. Earlier this week, we learned Best Buy Logothat the board investigation into the unseemly Brian Dunn affair has taken an unexpected turn, resulting in Best Buy founder and board chairman Richard Schulze being forced out of his own company. And yet, some market analysts are celebrating. Why? [Read more…] about Best Buy’s Founder is Forced Out as Ex-CEO Receives $6.6 million Severance

Filed Under: News, Retailers Tagged With: Best Buy, Brian Dunn, Richard Schulze, scandal

The Top Ten Leadership Lessons of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

April 5, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

<April 4, 2012> In an upcoming issue of Forbes magazine, entrepreneur Jeff Bezos will be profiled and Forbes Cover with Jeff Bezosanalyzed as the technology-industry’s leading “philosopher-CEO.” As part of this coverage, Forbes contributor George Anders solicited the rule-breaking CEO’s lessons of leadership. [Read more…] about The Top Ten Leadership Lessons of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

Filed Under: Management, News, Retailers, Strategy Tagged With: Amazon, Jeff Bezos, leadership

Best Buy Bombed by Wall Street as Word Comes Its Bonds May Get Rated ‘Junk’

April 5, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

<April 4, 2012> Best Buy Co. may be starting to feel a little like Rodney “I don’t get no respect” Best Buy LogoDangerfield as Wall Street reacted strongly to news today that Standard and Poor’s may drop the industry’s largest retailer’s bond rating to “junk” status. As word leaked out, Best Buy’s stock dropped 2.55%, more than twice the rate the overall Dow dropped. [Read more…] about Best Buy Bombed by Wall Street as Word Comes Its Bonds May Get Rated ‘Junk’

Filed Under: News, Retailers Tagged With: Best Buy, Wall Street

New Group Azione Unlimited Continues Ramp-up with New Dealers & Vendors

March 29, 2012 by Ben Leave a Comment

Azione logo<March 28, 2012> Azione Unlimited, the new buying group targeted at the integration and custom retail channels announced Tuesday that it has added two “founding” dealer members who will both join the organization and serve on its advisory board. The organization followed this announcement up today with another hailing the addition of two new vendors bringing the total number of vendors supporting the group to just under thirty. [Read more…] about New Group Azione Unlimited Continues Ramp-up with New Dealers & Vendors

Filed Under: Associations, Retailers, Specialty Tagged With: Azione, vendors

HTSA Announces New Member – Their 64th for the Group

March 29, 2012 by Ben Leave a Comment

<March 28, 2012> Home Technology Specialists of America, a national dealer buying group of integrators and custom retailers, announced today that Digitech Custom AV of Carmel, Indiana has joined the group as their 64th member dealer. According to HTSA, Digitech merged with another dealer in 2011 – Integrated Home Technologies – and has been in business for 23-years offering a variety of residential, commercial, and industrial solutions. [Read more…] about HTSA Announces New Member – Their 64th for the Group

Filed Under: Associations, Retailers Tagged With: Bob Hana, Home Technology Specialists of America, HTSA

Wal-Mart Gets Angry…Birds, That Is

March 22, 2012 by Ben Leave a Comment

<March 21, 2012> In a unique partnership, Rovio Entertainment, Ltd., creator of the popular Angry Birds game and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. are coming together to offer exclusive Angry Birds clothes, plush toys, and snacks that will include clues to a new version of the game launching later this week called Angry Birds Space. The partnership offers benefits to both Wal-Mart and Rovio…but mostly to those Wal-Mart customers who are Angry Birds fans as items sold in the store will include “Golden Eggsteroid” clues to unlock levels of the new game. [Read more…] about Wal-Mart Gets Angry…Birds, That Is

Filed Under: Consumer Trends, Retailers, Strategy Tagged With: Angry Birds, brands, downloads, games, Rovio, Wal-Mart

Agreeing with Soul by Ludacris, Judge Orders PRO Group To Testify Now

March 15, 2012 by Ben Leave a Comment

PRO Group logo<March 14, 2012> Over the last few weeks, we have reported on a trademark and unfair business practices lawsuit filed by Signeo, the parent company of Soul by Ludacris, against Sol Republic. In its original filing, Signeo alleged that Sol Republic deliberately selected the SOL mark used on their headphone products in order to confuse the marketplace with a name that is phonetically identical to the SOUL trademark used by Signeo on its headphones. [Read more…] about Agreeing with Soul by Ludacris, Judge Orders PRO Group To Testify Now

Filed Under: Brands, Manufacturers, News, Retailers Tagged With: Bob Cole, lawsuit, n Kevin Lee, PRO Group, Rob Standley, Scott Hix, Signeo, SOL Republic, Soul by Ludacris, Vann's, World Wide Stereo

Netflix Looks to Partner with Major Cable Company

March 8, 2012 by Ben Leave a Comment

Netflix Logo<March 7, 2012> Reuters is reporting today that Netflix, once feared as a predator to many in the Cable TV industry, may be more kitten than lion as it seeks to partner with one or more major cable TV providers in offering Netflix as part of its programming package. Once an unthinkable proposition, Reuters says the company is actively pursuing just such an arrangement. [Read more…] about Netflix Looks to Partner with Major Cable Company

Filed Under: News, Retailers, Strategy Tagged With: business model, cable operators, content, content owners, HBO, Home Box Office, Netflix, Reed Hastings

HTSA Appoints New Director of Marketing

March 2, 2012 by Ben Leave a Comment

HTSA Logo<March 1, 2012> The Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA) announced today that it has created a new Director of Marketing position that it believes will dramatically increase support for HTSA members with dynamic new programs. The new Director of Marketing is Kathleen Marini. [Read more…] about HTSA Appoints New Director of Marketing

Filed Under: Associations, News, Retailers, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: Bob Hana, HTSA, Kathleen Mariani, marketing

Pro Group Pulled into Lawsuit

March 1, 2012 by Ben Leave a Comment

<February 29, 2012> New court documents filed late last week as part of the ongoing lawsuit Soul by Ludacris Headphonesbetween Soul by Ludacris and SOL Republic appear to more deeply entangle one of our industry’s most prominent national retail buying organizations, the Pro Group. Court filings from both sides have ignited a controversy in which certain Pro Group members appear to make a claim that is contradictory to one by the Pro Group Executive Director David Workman. [Read more…] about Pro Group Pulled into Lawsuit

Filed Under: Associations, Brands, Manufacturers, News, Retailers, Strategy Tagged With: Bob Cole World Wide Stereo, David Workman, headphones, Kevin Lee, Lan Kennedy-Davis, PRO Group, Rob Standley, Scott Hix, Signeo, SOL Republic, Soul by Ludacris, trademark, USPTO, Vann's

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