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MATTRESS FIRM HAS A SOLID FOUNDATION FROM WHICH TO GROW

Tweet Tucson, Arizona.  Salt Lake City, Utah.  Houston-based Mattress Firm is planning an initial public offering of stock and is also planning to nearly quadruple their store count over the next several years to 2,500, according to documents filed in connection with the IPO. With over 680 stores throughout the United States, Mattress Firm’s plans...

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Blockbuster Who?!?!

Tweet If you don’t design your own obsolescence, someone else will.  It would be logical to guess that cable companies and satellite operators like Comcast and DirecTV dominate the VOD (Video on Demand) market, but according to a recent review by The NPD Group, a leading market research company, Netflix has grabbed 61% of the...

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Technology Finally Catches Up to Hollywood

Tweet (Hollywood Video, that is….) It seems like yesterday that it was the early 90′s, and as a young broker I was hired to roll-out 30 to 40 Hollywood Video stores across Arizona and parts of Southern California.  Almost from the beginning, people were worried about the life-cycle of this new concept.  It was never...

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