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brookstone is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and has a buyer. stores remain open-- but sales have been slipping at brookstone which is known for selling upscale gadgets for home and travel. the company has about 200 million dollars of debt. spencer spirit holdings is expected to pay $147 million dollars for brookstone. men are becoming more "fashion forward." a slew of high end clothing retailers are shifting focus to the sharp dressed men. bain & company reports men accounted for 40% of luxury clothing sales in 20-13 and that the segment is growing by 7% per year, versus 4% for women. michael kors, lululemon, and coach are a few of the names adding stand alone mens stores or expanding clothing lines. in our cover story--general motors is touting its product placement in an upcoming movie. the p-r campaign about g-m's role in movie production comes the same week g-m c-e-o mary barra faced tough questions from congress about the automaker's production on the assembly line. the new movie "captain america" features scarett johansson and black 20-14
brookstone is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and has a buyer. stores remain open-- but sales have been slipping at brookstone which is known for selling upscale gadgets for home and travel. the company has about 200 million dollars of debt. spencer spirit holdings is expected to pay $147 million dollars for brookstone. men are becoming more "fashion forward." a slew of high end clothing retailers are shifting focus to the sharp dressed men. bain & company reports men accounted...
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brookstone announced it has -- a sale to spencer's holdings. don't will continue to operate stores with current employees and managers. >> captain america, the story on marvel. created byrtwork was marble. bloomberg west correspondent jon erlichman has gotten to sit down with stanley, former president and chairman of marvel about the continuing success of movies based on those marvel characters. >> i remember when i was a kid, everybody wanted to see king kong. everybody wanted to see frankenstein. people love things that are bigger than life. they did not make that many until recently when the producers discovered that these superheroes are just the most popular things ever with the public. we sometime ask if there is superhero fatigue. this year we will see the amazing spiderman, the second one. that will be followed by the third one in 2016 and a fourth one in 2018. do you think at a certain point, moviegoers get spiderman fatigue? >> look at something like james bond. i don't know how long it has been going on and it is still a big event wh
brookstone announced it has -- a sale to spencer's holdings. don't will continue to operate stores with current employees and managers. >> captain america, the story on marvel. created byrtwork was marble. bloomberg west correspondent jon erlichman has gotten to sit down with stanley, former president and chairman of marvel about the continuing success of movies based on those marvel characters. >> i remember when i was a kid, everybody wanted to see king kong. everybody wanted to...
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brookstone has filed for bankruptcy protection. they sell items such as drones and virtual keyboards. they're now hoping to sell spirit holdings. brookstone was taken private in 2005. attendance at seaworld is plunging. the number of visitors felt 13% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier. the company plans to drop on higher prices in pure discounts. blackstone has reduced its stake in seaworld to about 25%. in turkey, the nation's highest court has ordered the prime minister to unblock twitter. the government says it will comply with the court order. managersist hedge fund really the investors best friend? beatent analysis shows a the s&p 500 by 17 percentage points over the last five years. haveunds they manage now almost 100 billion dollars of assets. corporate boards are not about to outsource governance but turned to bankers like f on to advise them on strategy and when necessary, to build an activist defense. activism works for him. back.at to have you the activists themselves. they tell us that pours increasingly
brookstone has filed for bankruptcy protection. they sell items such as drones and virtual keyboards. they're now hoping to sell spirit holdings. brookstone was taken private in 2005. attendance at seaworld is plunging. the number of visitors felt 13% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier. the company plans to drop on higher prices in pure discounts. blackstone has reduced its stake in seaworld to about 25%. in turkey, the nation's highest court has ordered the prime minister to...
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and dean zaed who is co-founder and ceo of brookstone capital management in chicago.et's talk about this. we've been waiting for a correction. people keep thinking as soon as it's 10% i'm going to jump in. they haven't gotten that opportunity yet. >> no. this has been a correctionalist market. the question for investors is what do i do? >> do you think that at this point you should go ahead and wait? or could we go an even longer period of time before we see that? >> the metaphor i like to use, the average auto accident is 15 years. when you get to year 16, do you park it in the garage never to drive it again? of course not. you want to have a long-term investment strategy. international stocks, commodities, real estate, that is not at an all-time high. still, if you have long-term investment goals you want to have a long-term strategy. >> let's talk about some of things coming up this week. the fomc meeting will be a big one that investors are focused on. we're not getting a news conference this time around. we will be getting the statement from the fed. is there any
and dean zaed who is co-founder and ceo of brookstone capital management in chicago.et's talk about this. we've been waiting for a correction. people keep thinking as soon as it's 10% i'm going to jump in. they haven't gotten that opportunity yet. >> no. this has been a correctionalist market. the question for investors is what do i do? >> do you think that at this point you should go ahead and wait? or could we go an even longer period of time before we see that? >> the...