Alan McCollough
Alan McCollough
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The industry trends and our own initiatives resulted in strong sales of new technologies such as digital and thin-panel televisions, portable DVD players, digital satellite systems and portable digital audio,
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Although December sales started relatively strong and picked up at the end of the month, we were not able to offset mid-month weakness, ... For the full month, traffic was up slightly, but not at the level of improvement we experienced in November.
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I believe we have made an exciting announcement for the future of our company. It will strategically reposition our company to focus exclusively on consumer, home office and entertainment. I am convinced the time to move forward is now." ()
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Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq. We believe the softening reflects consumer preoccupation with geopolitical events. It is too early, however, to understand the impact these events may have on results for the first quarter." ()