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Pressures Continue to Grow in the Ag, Logistics Industries
Guest Editor

New Year, Familiar Challenges for Retailers

Spencer M. Ware, CTP
As I pen my guest editor column for this edition of the Journal of Corporate Renewal focused on retail, it is the first week of 2023, and retail is once again challenged. Inflation is high, consumer confidence is down, and inventory levels remain...
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From Crisis to Clarity
My Take

Being Part of Something Bigger

Scott Y. Stuart, Esq.
As we journey into 2023 and meet the challenges that lie ahead in managing through the truest of economic uncertainty in some time, the one certainty we can count on is the wealth of resources and opportunities available through TMA. During the past...
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Leader Board: Jeffrey C. Hampton
Leader Board

A World of Deal-Making and Restructuring Opportunities: You Are Part of Something Bigger

James E. Van Horn
I am extremely honored, excited, and humbled to serve as TMA Global President for 2023. Like many of you, TMA has always been tremendously rewarding and beneficial to my professional business development and in building so many close personal...
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Three Issues to Navigate to Avoid a Retailer’s Liquidation
Feature

Three Issues to Navigate to Avoid a Retailer’s Liquidation

Frank Merola
Gabriel Sasson
Samantha Martin
Retail reorganizations fail at an alarming rate. While nearly half of all large retail Chapter 11 cases that begin with aspirations of reorganizing ultimately liquidate, only a small fraction of mega cases in other industries end in a liquidation...
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Customer Acquisition and Connection in the Evolving Retail Environment
Feature

Customer Acquisition and Connection in the Evolving Retail Environment

Keith Jelinek
Laura Wheeler
Frank Jones
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce sales (internet shopping and mail order) made up roughly 5.4% of retail sales in October 2000, excluding autos and gas stations. 1 That figure has risen steadily and is now close to 21% ( Figure 1 )...
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Examining Recent Cycles for Clues to What Lies Ahead for Retailers
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Examining Recent Cycles for Clues to What Lies Ahead for Retailers

Colin Adams
Matt Manning
Ken Ehrler
The retail sector continues to experience rapid innovation and disruption, reflecting an ongoing transformation of consumer behavior and preferences that affects how and for what people shop. Pressure is continuing to mount for retailers heading...
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The Big Reset: Simplification of End-to-End Retail in Response to Increasing Inflation
Feature

The Big Reset: Simplification of End-to-End Retail in Response to Increasing Inflation

Suren Thadani
Stuart Reid
Many retail organisations have gone through a significantly turbulent period, working hard to keep the lights on. For the last 12 to 18 months, they have been coping with supply chain issues, pricing optimisation after-effects, and systems producing...
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Recent Appellate Decisions Spotlight Split on Postpetition Interest for Unimpaired Creditors
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Recent Appellate Decisions Spotlight Split on Postpetition Interest for Unimpaired Creditors

Andrew Mordkoff
Erin Ryan
A recent wave of key decisions has placed a spotlight on an issue that has divided courts for years. That is, whether unimpaired creditors are entitled to postpetition interest in solvent debtor cases and if so, the appropriate rate of interest that...
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Spotlight
Happenings

Volunteers CARE About Improving Young People’s Financial Literacy

A larmed by what he saw as rampant financial illiteracy passing through his courtroom day in and day out, former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John C. Ninfo decided he had to try to do something about it. In 1997, he began visiting classrooms to share...
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Newcomers
Happenings

Newcomers: January/February 2023

Arizona Brandon Banks, MCA Financial Group Ltd. Andrew Short Atlanta Russell Robinson, Moore Colson Nicholas E. Wright California - Northern California Andrew McCarthy Charles J. Mellor California - Southern California Matthew DeRoos, Balmoral Funds...
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