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As seen in bold below, The wine ladies can be spoken to Live at the 2:30pm-3:30pm time slot every Wednesday....I guess between the hours of 3:31pm-2:29pm, they can't speak about Winning Colours live....so sad...commercials will do...
http://www.thewineladies.com/wine_dine/radio_show
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I said 15 less stores for Winning Colours to be sold at....It's the truth...It doesn't matter if we are not in there yet...the fact still stands...15 stores will or have been closed down...with that...physically, it will be impossible to sell the product there...On Topic...thanks for your time...
LMAO....Merry Christmas to you to!! lololol
possibility...likely?...up for you to decide...on to my next one...DD is fun...
Winning Colours, Kind, and Clean1 hopefully will be seen on these 4 new stores' shelves...
Lowe’s Plans Four New Stores
Home improvement retailer Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is beginning to follow through on predictions it made about opening 35-45 new stores by January 2010 at its annual investor conference last month. Lowe’s will open four new stores on Friday, October 29, 2009, with official grand openings occurring six days later on Thursday, October 29.
The stores will open in Paso Robles, CA, Philadelphia and Reading, PA, and Glenville, NY. Combined, they represent 454,000 square feet of retail space and will create an estimated 645 new jobs.
Lowe’s, which expects to add a total of 62-66 new stores during fiscal 2009 (ending January 2010) and another 38-48 new stores during fiscal 2010 (ending January 2011), is committing to store growth despite its soft fiscal 2009 financial performance and general weakness in the home improvement retail market. The retailer expects total fiscal 2009 sales to decline about 3% from fiscal 2008 sales of $48.2 billion to about $46.7 billion, and comparable store sales to decline 7-9%. Total store opening costs are expected to be about $50 million. Lowe’s also plans to close one unprofitable store in Milwaukee, WI. In addition, Lowe’s anticipates possible impairment costs related to store operations of up to $100 million during the second half of fiscal 2009.
However, Lowe’s also released financial guidance for fiscal year 2010 that anticipates financial growth following the contraction of 2009. Lowe’s expects total sales to grow 3-4%, from approximately $46.7 billion to approximately $48-49 billion, and comparable store sales are expected to rise about 1%. Store opening costs are expected to be about $30 million.
At the investor conference, Lowe’s executives said that store expansion into underserved markets, exploration of international opportunities, and cross-functional efficiency initiatives should result in market share gains, improved customer service and sales growth. Lowe’s also expects consumers to resort to more do-it-yourself home repair projects in light of the difficult economy.
Lowe’s chief rival The Home Depot also reported disappointing Q2 2009 results. Net earnings declined 8.3%, from $1.2 billion to $1.1 billion. Net sales for the second quarter totaled $19.1 billion, a 9.1% decrease from $19.9 billion Comparable store sales for the second quarter were negative 8.5%, and comparable store sales for U.S. stores were negative 6.9%. Gross profit declined 8.3%, from $6.9 billion to $6.3 billion. As in Q1, Home Depot cited pressures on the market and consumers in contributing to the decline in these figures. Home Depot confirmed previously issued guidance that fiscal 2009 sales will decline by about 9% from fiscal 2008.
The U.S. home improvement market does not show any indications it will improve this year, and should meet expectations of declining performance. Both Home Depot and Lowe’s had relatively quiet second quarters, perhaps reflecting their soft performance. In June, Home Depot publicly discussed financial expectations, strategic priorities and long-term operating targets during its 2009 investor and analyst conference In addition to its expectations for a 9% drop in sales, Home Depot also predicted comparable store sales to decline in the high-single digit area and gross margin expansion to be flat to slightly positive.
Like Lowe’s, Home Depot sees improvement coming after this year. In the long term, Home Depot, which has not publicly discussed any plans for new store openings, said it believes that its strategic priorities, along with a correction in the home improvement market, will allow it to achieve an operating margin of approximately 10% and a return on invested capital of approximately 15%.
Lowe’s operates more than 1,675 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Fiscal 2008 sales were $48.2 billion.
15 less stores to potentially sell Winning Colours?
Home Depot to close 15 stores, curb openings
(Reuters) - Retailer Home Depot Inc (HD.N), which has been battered by the slumping housing market, on Thursday said it plans to close 15 underperforming U.S. stores and will curb future openings, sending its shares up more than 5 percent.
The home improvement industry leader said it will scrap plans to open about 50 U.S. stores that had been in its new-store pipeline. New-store spending will be cut by about $1 billion over the next three years.
"We applaud these moves, given an industry we believe is nearing saturation, with a scarcity of attractive new locations," Standard & Poor's Equity analyst Michael Souers said in a research note.
Others called Home Depot's strategy a prudent way to conserve cash in the tough U.S. economy.
"Demand will remain somewhat depressed for the next several years, especially in the U.S.," said Zahid Siddique, a building products analyst with Gabelli & Co. "I don't think there's really any incremental benefit from opening these new stores."
Home Depot expects a charge of about $586 million tied to the store closures and new-store pullback, with about $547 million pretax to be recognized in its first quarter. Excluding this charge, the company reiterated that per-share profit is still expected to fall as much as 24 percent for the year.
Many retailers are slowing store growth and cutting capital spending as recession worries and higher prices for gasoline and food lead consumers to halt spending. On Wednesday, Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) said it would slash its U.S. coffee-store openings through 2011.
COMPOUNDED TROUBLES
The crumbling U.S. housing market has compounded troubles for Home Depot and smaller rival Lowe's Cos (LOW.N), which have both posted weaker profits as falling home values, slower sales and tighter credit curbed demand for big-ticket renovations.
Atlanta-based Home Depot has stepped up investments to upgrade existing stores and hire more trade specialists under Frank Blake, who took over as chief executive when Robert Nardelli resigned under criticism in early 2007. The retailer sold its HD Supply wholesale distribution business last year to focus on improving store performance.
Home Depot is also fighting to win back market share as Lowe's challenges its dominance by expanding to bigger U.S. cities and Canada.
"We will invest in our core retail business, in this case our existing stores, which drive our most profitable sales," Blake said in a statement.
The retailer said it still plans to open 55 new stores this year, down from about 100 opened in 2007. It also reiterated that capital spending would be $2.3 billion this year, down from $3.6 billion last year.
The stores to be closed account for less than 1 percent of Home Depot's existing store count of more than 2,200.
The 15 store closures will affect 1,300 workers, many of whom are expected to be offered posts at other locations. The stores to be closed are in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota and Vermont.
Wow....So much DD Tonight...Great Job Ant. You and I can continue tomorrow. I'm beat!
One more store for Winning Colours to sell it's ClubPak SKU, as seen on the beautiful IBOX. I guess this cancels out that Zellers store I posted earlier...!!! Win for Winning Brands!
Sam's Club opening new store called Mas Club
Wal-Mart Stores Inc's (WMT.N) Sam's Club division is opening a new type of warehouse club aimed at attracting Hispanic shoppers with an expanded selection of products from Mexico.
The club, to be called Mas Club, will be opened in Houston the first half of 2009.
"Our objective is to create an additional shopping choice that provides currently unavailable value for families, restaurant owners, convenience stores and more," said Doug McMillon, president and chief executive of Sam's Club, in a statement.
Customers pay an annual fee to shop in Sam's Club locations, which sell everything from diamond rings and digital cameras to bulk sized packages of paper towels and soda.
Sam's Club has been looking for ways to boost its membership ranks, offering a special deal for college students earlier this year.
Sam's Club said it is designing new signs and a Mas Club logo. It also said that existing Sam's Club members who want to shop at Mas Club will need to purchase a separate membership.
Membership fees for the new club have not yet been determined, it said. (Reporting by Nicole Maestri)
http://www.winningbrandscorporation.com/files/newsfiles_10/april13_2010.htm
I wonder what happened to TrackMoist...I guess it wasn't such a "Monstrous success" as the PR tried to make it out to be...haven't had a PR about this product since....oh...what are we talking about again??? oh...lol...Don't mind me...TrackMoist can be so forgettable at times...
I agree...now on to my next "ON topic Post"...
Yikes! Kind Laundry will have a tough time competing with these TOP six detergents....
http://housekeeping.about.com/od/productreviews/tp/laundrysoap.htm
Wow! The graffiti in New York is really bad!
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&va=graffiti+in+new+york
Good thing Duane Reade is soon to be carrying Winning Colours!!! It will clean those drip, drops, and Intensional disasters up pronto!! http://duanereade.com/
It's information...and the point of my post was just as I stated...it could be one less store to sell our leading product...I guess I'm on topic. thanks for your time...
To bad this guy wasn't around when Winning Colours DRTV failed...
HAWTHORNE DIRECT ANNOUNCES RECENT ADDITION TO THE CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM
FAIRFIELD, IA- Hawthorne Direct, the full service direct response television agency, is pleased to announce the addition of Creative Director David S. Mayne.
Founder, Chairman & Executive Creative Director Timothy R. Hawthorne of Hawthorne Direct said, “David Mayne brings an abundance of filmmaking experience to the Hawthorne team that will help to continue to innovate the way we introduce brands to consumers through DRTV campaigns.”
Mayne is an accomplished filmmaker with over 30 years of experience in commercials, PBS documentaries, shorts, screenplays and a feature film. Prior to joining Hawthorne Direct’s team Mayne ran Very Sirius Productions, a creative services agency that specializes in creative media that strengthens brands, educates customers and compels them to buy. Previously, Mayne was a creative director and director at R2C Group. He was one of the first three employees at the start up of R2C Group and for eight years he helped nurture the company’s growth through many successful award-winning direct response campaigns. A few of Mayne’s noteworthy commercial clients include: AOL, Adidas, Chase, Electrolux, HP, PBS, Philips, The Salvation Army, Vonage, and Goodwill.
As an award winning documentary filmmaker Mayne’s work includes two PBS films and an environmental education theatrical program for the Government of Alberta called Wet Alberta which was awarded a prestigious Cine Golden Eagle Award in 2010. David was a producer/director/writer for the popular national PBS series History Detectives and served as a field producer for the recent PBS program Blueprint America.
Mayne will be working out of one of Hawthorne’s satellite locations in Portland, OR.
Hawthorne Direct is a full-service direct response advertising agency, specializing in creative and production, Long and Short Form media buying, teleservices and fulfillment management, integrated marketing and videoactive™ initiatives. Hawthorne is celebrating nearly 25 years of excellence in direct response television. The agency is a founding member of the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA), the Direct Response Marketing Alliance (DRMA) and a valued member of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and DMA Broadcast Council. To learn more, call 1-641-472-3800, or visit www.HawthorneDirect.com.
doesn't matter...it all relates right?
Another use?!!! Winning Colours can help clean off the handcuffs, as it works great on stainless steel....
Man arrested after he tries to swallow drugs during New London narcotics investigation
New London — Police said a New London man attempted to swallow drugs while his friend fought with police during a drug arrest late Tuesday night on Montauk Avenue.
Eric Malloy, 28, of last know address 77 Truman St., was charged with violation of probation, possession of marijuana, interfering with police and tampering with evidence.
Christina Soto, 29, of 12 Rosemary St., was charged with assault on a police officer, interfering with police and second-degree hindering prosecution.
Police said during the course of a narcotics investigation by plain- clothes officers on Montauk Avenue at 10:30 p.m., Malloy attempted to swallow the drugs he was carrying.
Police said Soto fought with police, striking an officer in the face with her elbow.
The officer suffered minor injuries, police said.
Both are scheduled to be arraigned today at Superior Court in New London.
Yes!...Sparten Stores will have a YMCA...maybe they can give free samples of Winning Colours to all the little kids...Word of mouth...!!! it's a killer! Big Sales looming...
Opening Summer 2011! The NEW Spartan Stores YMCA
The new Spartan Stores YMCA will be a family-focused, state-of-the-art health and wellness facility opening in the summer of 2011. This beautiful 96,000 square-foot LEED-certified building will reside on the campus of the Metro Health Village in Wyoming, Michigan. Community members will enjoy a family-focused fitness facility offering everything from yoga and spinning classes to health and wellness programs, youth and adult sports, aquatics and arts and humanities.
The two-story facility will feature a fitness and wellness center with a special area for families to work out together, a family fun pool featuring a play center, splash zone and a warm water therapy pool, a licensed Child Development Center, family locker rooms, aerobics studio, sports gymnasium, indoor track, cycling studio, multi-purpose room, whirlpool, chapel and café.
Conveniently located off of M-6 at the Byron Center Avenue exit, the Spartan Stores YMCA will serve all communities in the southern Kent County corridor. The YMCA is a perfect fitness and community complement for the Village that also features physicians’ offices, health-related retail, a hotel, restaurants, parks, trails and fields.
In relation to the company WNBD used to market the DRTV campaign... their expansion could help WNBD in that country when Eric restarts the DRTV as promised in the last conference call...didn't he say two months from that date?
Convergys to Continue its Major Expansion in the Philippines
December 09, 2010
(Cincinnati & Manila; December 9, 2010) – Convergys Corporation, the global leader in relationship management, announced today that it continues its major expansion in the Philippines with the opening of a new integrated contact center in Muntinlupa City.
The new contact center facility, known as Alabang Two, is the second Convergys facility located in the area. The added capacity will bring Convergys’ total employment in the country to approximately 23,000, supporting the company’s status as the largest private employer in the Philippines.
The new Convergys facility measures 68,000 square feet and will employ up to 1,200 additional employees from the region. The contact center boasts executive and administrative offices, training rooms, conference rooms, and employee lounges.
The addition of this state-of-the-art, energy efficient facility brings the number of Convergys contact centers in the Philippines to thirteen - eight located throughout Metro Manila, three in Cebu City, one in Bacolod City, and one in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
“Convergys continues to add facilities in the Philippines due to significant and continuing client demand for the very high quality customer service provided by our dedicated teams of agents,” said Marife Zamora, Philippines Country Manager and Managing Director, Asia Pac/EMEA for Convergys. “Adding additional, integrated facilities in the geographies our clients request enhances our ability to deliver the outstanding customer service our agents provide, not only in the Philippines but across the globe. Since opening our first facility in the Philippines in 2003, we’ve experienced great success here and with our agent population and talented management team, I'm convinced this success will continue.”
Recently, His Excellency, Philippine President Aquino was the guest of honor and dedicated Convergys' new San Lazaro contact center. Convergys also recently expanded five of its existing facilities to create space for 3,600 additional jobs, citing the outstanding performance of its employees and high client demand for Philippines-based services. Earlier this year, Convergys won top honors as ”BPO Company of the Year.” Convergys was also recently inducted into the Philippine Economic Zone Authority Hall of Fame after Convergys won both the Outstanding Employer and Outstanding Exporter three times in each category.
Convergys continues to hire additional agents in the Philippines. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit résumés to jobsph@convergys.com or text ‘APPLY’ to 2600 from a mobile phone to begin the recruitment process.
Piggly Wiggly to open new store
A new Piggly Wiggly store will be opening in the old Food World store on U.. 280. Vince Culotta, co-owner of Piggly Wiggly stores in Columbiana and the Talladega Highway, said papers were signed to lease the building Friday.
SYLACAUGA — If the closing of Food World on U.S. 280 in May was a sign of the bad economic times, perhaps the planned opening of a new grocery store in the same building is a sign of good economic times to come.
Vince Culotta confirmed that a new Piggly Wiggly store will be opening in that building, and he expects it to be up and running by February. Culotta is co-owner of Piggly Wiggly stores in Columbiana and the Talladega Highway location in Sylacauga along with his brothers, Charles and Sam Jr.
Culotta said the papers were signed to lease the building on Friday.
“We’re going to gut that whole building, take out the old equipment and replace the floor and the ceiling,” Culotta said. “There will be new décor, and it will look like a new place.”
The new location will not have any effect on the current location, so customers at the Talladega Highway location should not expect any changes in service. The new location will resemble the current one, Culotta said.
“It should be very similar. We’ll make it as nice, if not nicer. We’ll have the same kinds of products, the same pricing and the same ads,” he said.
Perhaps the only major difference between the two locations could be the addition of a pharmacist. Food World had a pharmacy, and Culotta said he was interested in utilizing that area in the building for the same purpose, if he could get a pharmacist to locate there. He said very few Piggly Wiggly locations have a pharmacy.
Culotta said he was excited about this new opportunity.
“Sylacauga has been good to us. We’ve been very fortunate to do as well we’ve done here,” he said. “We see this as an opportunity to continue to grow and help the community. We employ about 70 people (at the current Sylacauga location), and we hope to employ about 55 to 60 more people there.”
The Food World store was closed in late May after parent company Bruno’s Supermarkets filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, and a Birmingham judge approved the sale of 56 of the company’s stores to Southern Family Markets.
Southern Family Markets decided to continue operation of 31 of the stores but chose to liquidate 25 of the stores, including the Sylacauga, Pell City and Moody locations.
Read more: The Daily Home - Piggly Wiggly to open new store
Target Corporation U.S. 2010, 2011, 2012 expansion plans/new store development plan
Interesting that the lack of large new retail developments significantly impact Target’s expansion velocity.
Per Target Corporation’s Q1 2010 Earnings Call:
From Doug Scovanner, EVP and CFO:
’ll start with the store growth expectations and let Gregg address the international aspect of the question, no, our outlook has not changed and that means that this year we expect to open 13 gross, 10 net stores and we expect that this year 2010 will be the low point in our development activity but it will be a long, long time before we approach the kinds of development pace that was firmly in place here several years ago.
So, that translates to who knows 20 or more stores next year perhaps, maybe some more in 2012 but generally speaking the large scale retail development in this country remains at very near absolute zero and so we are left to self-develop individual store sites that make economic sense.
We have the capital to be able to grow much, much faster. We have the capabilities, team and otherwise to be able to grow much, much faster. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of trade areas in the US, maybe even more than a thousand that are suitable for Target stores that don’t have one yet but this is all a matter of finding the right development opportunities that end up making economic sense to us, end up making sense on an overall basis in the communities we aspire to serve.
well finally your right about something...I appreciate your welcome...
Ferrari... I was mainly talking about this quote...
you would expect someone that does that much research to have a much broader range of opinions..given the state the company is in...also, he admits he is in the red and has not sold any...kind of strange IMO...
it's laughable...
This question has been asked many times...The answer is NO...but repeat it enough times and you'll eventually be right...Looks like "the storm" has been brewing for a long time...
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P.S...Some would say the storm has already passed...but unfortunately it headed south...Being that most of us were up north...we did not feel it physically, but we sure are paying for the damages...let's hope for a speedy recovery...
Thanks for the great DD Dennis. It's good to know what, where, and when product is selling, or lack thereof. Spartan was supposedly suppose to be a great fit for Winning Colours...I guess 1 bottle per month is all part of the "Test"...
P.S...I advise you not to post things like this on this board, as you will actually give the posters here someONE to discuss. You see, when you post negative (but true) DD, the board never tells you your lying...They tell you your only posting it because you want cheaper shares...or they attack you...as a person...
P.S.2...Do you not find the light posting volume here lately intriguing? lol...The "Only-Positive" Longs finally chased most of the "level-headed" posters away...Including me...With that, they can no longer combat negative posts with hype and personal attacks at THAT poster...They now see that without us "real" posters, they can and will keep having to hit that F5 key with no change for hours at a time...I encourage you, and others like you...to not post here anymore, as we all watch these sad individuals drool over every blog written...
Good Luck...
November 09, 2010 11:51:38 AM
Thank You pal. I am sorry that more don't see it that way. It's to bad that the "way I think" and the "questions I ask" come across to negative for me to qualify as a Mod on this board.
If I recall...Rocket did to...no "long" called him out...TAKI is solely concerned about the PPS...And if you really think about it...so is everyone on this board. Some may mask it by stating the love for the product, the Company's potential, and the CEO....but if you take your capital out of the equation, why would you care if this small company succeeds or fails? There are thousands of company's that are "trying to make it", why single out this one? (Example for College football fans) This is not Boise State, this company does not represent all the underdogs trying to make it to the next level...Money is the reason we are all here, and it will be the same reason we will all leave if anything goes crazy wrong...Some posters post with frustration, some can hide it/not harp on it...we are all different which makes this a lot more fascinating to watch...
However, Eric states clearly in the FAQ section on the "investors" page of the WNBD Website that this company is for people who can handle large swings and those who will consider this a long term investment...
When sellers are exhausted...the MM's will drop the ask/bid to find new buyers...lose-lose situation without buyers...4th quarter revenue hype is over...A PR in some way, shape, or form is needed now.
LMAO!...very true.
1/3 of the float is what I remember...could be wrong.
Starting comments off with "but" does not make them automatically in disagreeance. It could just mean a different opinion of viewpoint is about to be spoken. What if I started the comment off with "But not only does...." That's me adding on to your comment...is it not? lol...
I don't have a source. I asked Ibdave a theoretical question, hence the words "could" and "potentially"....I just find it odd...that's it...
If the filing states 300, yet most brokerage firms only count as 1, then I would assume we'd have at least 500 holders, probably higher...The point was, the volume is pretty low per day for over 500 shareholders...some days it's a little over 1 million...which is pretty sad given the potential plastered daily all over the board and via blog...
Yes, please re-read tomorrow...as I seriously have no idea where you saw me taking "exception" to anything...
turning the corner??? I quoted you...doesn't mean I disagreed with what you said...