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Re: Fortune Swap Article 
"Meanwhile, they've cut floor space"
Like most public firms they spew BS and the analysts
don't (publicly anyway) call them on it. BBW did
mention in a conference call something about...
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tripola23 |
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29-Jan-10 01:05 pm |
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Re: Fortune Swap Article
"Every single time I've walked by a Build-a-Bear
shop, and it's a few years now, it has been the
busiest store in sight." Same store sales have
been...
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tripola23 |
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29-Jan-10 12:24 am |
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Re: Fortune Swap Article
"Clark says she is surprised that Tindell didn't
grow the company faster -- she has rolled out 400
stores in a third of the time it took Tindell to.
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tripola23 |
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27-Jan-10 04:12 pm |
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Re: Fortune Swap Article
"Though these are tough times for retail -- same-store
sales were down 6.5% last year at the Container Store
and 15% at Build-a-Bear through its third quarter
-- both companies...
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tripola23 |
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25-Jan-10 10:35 am |
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Re: Pretty Much Swept Under the BBW Rug
bump over spam
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tripola23 |
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9-Jan-10 08:25 pm |
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Pretty Much Swept Under the BBW Rug
From 2004 IPO story, "The average investment per
new store last year was about $350,000. It expects
to spend about $5 million in fiscal 2005 to open a
flagship store, the filing said. http://stlouis..
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tripola23 |
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9-Jan-10 06:45 pm |
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Re: BBW needs a new product segment to boost SSS?
One reason that it is still in business as a separate
entity is that no one wanted to buy the bear business
when Lehman Brothers was retained (at enormous cost)
to shop it around...
Business & Finance > Investments > Stocks (A to Z) > Stocks B >
Build-A-Bear Workshop, In (BBW)
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tripola23 |
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9-Jan-10 06:38 pm |
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Re: BBW needs a new product segment to boost SSS?
New product? Pizza. Chuckecheese is doing well. I spoke
highly of that company here a few years ago. Symbol
CEC. Broadens the age appeal. Boys love pizza. Use
the stupid bear...
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tripola23 |
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1-Jan-10 12:38 am |
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Re: BBW needs a new product segment to boost SSS?
"If they sold "teeny bopper bears" that
wore Hannah Montana clothes that might work."
Didn't they try that a year or two ago?
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tripola23 |
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28-Dec-09 11:12 pm |
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Re: BBW needs a new product segment to boost SSS?
"Are 11-12 girls still part of the BBW target
market?" They better be. There's huge rent
to be paid on those stores. Seriously, that post IPO
buzz about...
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tripola23 |
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28-Dec-09 11:08 pm |
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Re: BBW needs a new product segment to boost SSS?
Clothing? For what ages, 3 to 12? Would 12 year olds
buy clothing from the same tiny shop that clothes
toddlers? Clothing...
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tripola23 |
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16-Dec-09 02:32 am |
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Re: BML Investment Group buying more shares
Interesting subject. I followed a local company whose
stock was being slowly bought by 2 hot hedge funds.
Both funds are virtually out of business now...
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tripola23 |
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9-Dec-09 12:04 pm |
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Re: BAB Cyber Monday?
I have no relationship with BBW. Never met Maxine or
any of the other execs. I'm sure they work hard
and are competent at running a big chain. But in making
a profit selling to 11...
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tripola23 |
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7-Dec-09 09:21 pm |
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Re: BAB Cyber Monday?
"there's something about the concept that
doesn't want to die." Alive (barely) only
because BBW management is playing with huge amounts
of OPM (Other Peoples' Money) from the well-timed
IPO...
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tripola23 |
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7-Dec-09 12:10 pm |
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Re: BBW Manhattan store
"don't they have a St Louis flagship store,
which is even more spectacular and makes more sense
for the company?" -- Nope, just a few mall stores
in STL. Their Galleria store here would the...
Business & Finance > Investments > Stocks (A to Z) > Stocks B >
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tripola23 |
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4-Dec-09 03:38 pm |
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Re: BBW Manhattan store
First time anyone has mentioned that costly ego trip
in a very long time. Certainly BBW doesn't discuss
it much. Did you eat there? Opening a Manhattan store
is a sign to sell a...
Business & Finance > Investments > Stocks (A to Z) > Stocks B >
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tripola23 |
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1-Dec-09 07:38 pm |
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Re: Good news...Black Friday sales very encouraging
No they weren't good at all. Up a tiny bit from
VERY depressed levels last year as the stock market
was hitting bottom. Should have been easy to beat.
Mall retail...
Business & Finance > Investments > Stocks (A to Z) > Stocks B >
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tripola23 |
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30-Nov-09 01:36 pm |
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Re: Unsolicited Email on BBW going private from October
"You just don't see these sort of emails without
something to attach it to." -- Of course you
do. I get stock tips nearly every couple of days by
email or fax. A few by direct mail. Usually a sign
of a pump and dump...
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tripola23 |
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25-Nov-09 04:52 pm |
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Re: Disney and Build a Bear?
The failure of tiny Ridemakerz is important only because
it puts the last nail in the coffin of the notion
that BBW can spawn new Build-a-Bear type "concepts",
one after another. That was a popular fantasy...
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tripola23 |
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25-Nov-09 12:43 am |
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Re: Why is this stock so psychotic!
"They already said in their 3Q earnings announcement
that..." A lot of what they and other firms say
in conference calls is ***utter BS!*** Listen to all
of BBW's old CCs one after another and you'll
clearly...
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tripola23 |
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14-Nov-09 03:10 am |
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