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e.l.f. on a Meteoric Trajectory
Dana Wood
September 11, 2023
Multiple birds, one stone. In snapping up Naturium Skincare for $355 million in cash and stock, e.l.f. Beauty furthered its agenda in a number of ...
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Going Local Requires More than a Strategy
Warren Shoulberg
September 6, 2023
As retail chains have gotten ever larger – stretching into the hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of units – management at the country’s ...
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Earth to Best Buy: Resurrect Your One-Upmanship Over Apple
Robin Lewis
August 23, 2023
Best Buy has gone through several strategic iterations not only to survive but also to flourish. CEO Corie Barry (since 2019) succeeded Hubert Joly following ...
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Coach and Michael Kors: An Eddie Lampert Echo?
Robin Lewis
August 17, 2023
Oh noooo! Are we going there again? No, I’m not going back to my years of ranting about Eddie Lampert, the brilliant financier who acquired ...
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Lego: Building an Empire Brick by Brick
Warren Shoulberg
August 10, 2023
It wasn’t all that long ago – since about the arrival of the first Gen Zer – that Lego was virtually bankrupt and on the ...
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Gap’s Fifth Hail Mary
Robin Lewis
August 3, 2023
For those of you who read my article back in November 2021, Is Sonia Syngal Gap’s Fourth “Hail Mary?” you will understand that Richard Dickson, ...
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Supply Chain Warriors: How Strategic Insights Reinvent Readiness
Sarah Holbrook
July 5, 2023
Welcome to the era of omnipresent disruption, where a confluence of climate, cybersecurity, geopolitical, global health, and other plausible, crisis-ready threats loom large. As the ...
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