Word: turnarounds
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...Barbie and Hot Wheels. But Barbie's sales slump--domestically down 21% this year through September--may also be a victim of kids growing older at younger ages. Barbie has been badly rattled by Bratz, a line of hip, trendy dolls launched in 2001 by MGA Entertainment. Mattel's turnaround plan for Barbie has entailed everything from a breakup with Ken to trendier fashions to launching a girls' line of Barbie clothing and perfume--even enlisting Hilary Duff to talk her up. For all that, Barbie still seems stuck. She is trying "to out-hooker Bratz," says analyst Sean McGowan...
This profit comes in the last year of a “three-year turnaround plan” Levy instituted. In seven years since Beth Israel and the New England Deaconess Medical Center merged, the joint venture has lost approximately $280 million dollars...
...Crimson’s sophomore quartet spearheaded the turnaround, accounting for all six points racked up in the second frame...
...sophomore center Brian Cusworth, and many believe he holds the key to a quick turnaround for the Crimson (1-2, 0-0 Ivy) after last season’s 4-23 debacle...
...Even with a combined $55 billion in annual sales, Sears and Kmart will be just one-fifth the size of Wal-Mart, which "is so overwhelming in terms of market share, logistics and efficiency that going up against them would be futile," as Michael Appel, managing director of Quest Turnaround Advisers, puts...