Yes, "amazing" that Expo Holdings, Inc. delivers their little displays to Lowes at an overall loss. Like any poorly run, fiscally insane small business in the universe couldn't accomplish the same feat of losing money and making up the loss printing shares bi-monthly. Just teriffic...unless of course you are a shareholder who does NOT get the advantages of selling shares everytime you can't make payroll or want to indulge in some childhood fantasy like sponsering NASCAR racing. The business has de-evolved into nothing but a front for the current main purpose which is allowing a few people like JD Brown to live a life of leisure paid for mostly by the equity of the people he misleads and lies to. IOW, his shareholders. Now, why it is so "great" that some people who work at Expo Holdings have connections to Lowes is beyond any feasible advantage I can see. It could lead to Expo losing more money I suppose by entering into more contracts which inevitably net losses as Expo Holdings has each and every known quarter since they first entered into the Lowes display deal. There is absolutely no doubt at all in my mind that 2010 will show a loss for EXPH, so one can say every quarter since EXPH first did business with Lowes with a large degree of certainty. Or perhaps it helps that people who couldn't hold their jobs at Lowes because that company is forced to try and earn a profit, now have a place to go like Expo Holdings. Where JD Brown fancies himself the savior of all local construction/cabinetry type employees who stray up to him. As long as he can "save them" at his shareholder's expense and not his own, of course, lol. All IMHO.
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