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Eddie Lampert's Sears experiment looking like a failure

Posted Aug 23rd 2009 3:40PM by Zac Bissonnette (RSS feed)
Filed under: Management, Sears Holdings (SHLD)

What would happen if a brilliant hedge fund manager took over a retailer and ran it with a rigid focus on financial metrics, putting aside all that soft stuff about branding and marketing?

Take a look at Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), and you have your answer. While macroeconomic trends haven't exactly been the company's friend, the stock has plunged from close to $200 per share in early 2007 to its current price of $66 per share. Just a few months ago it was trading in he mid-$20s.

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