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Gale Group New Product Announcements/Plus (NPA/PLUS) contains the full text of press releases from all industries covering announcements related to products, with a focus on new products and services. In addition to product descriptions, press releases generally contain key details about new products and technologies, including technical specifications, availability, uses, licensing agreements, distribution channels, and prices. Company contacts and phone numbers are provided to allow follow-up by interested parties. The press releases contained in the NPA/PLUS database are obtained directly from the product manufacturer, distributor, or an authorized marketing representative.
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| Dates Covered: | 1985 to the present |
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| DIALOG(R)File 621:Gale Group New Prod.Annou. | |
| (c) 1999 The Gale Group. All rts. reserv. | |
| AA= | 01838731 Supplier Number: 54263593 (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) |
| /TI | CompUSA's struggle continues. |
| HELLER, LAURA | |
| JN= | Discount Store News, v38, n6, p5(1) |
| PD=,PY= | March 22, 1999 |
| ISSN: 0012-3587 | |
| LA=,RT= | Language: English Record Type: Fulltext |
| DT= | Document Type: Magazine/Journal; Trade |
| Word Count: 786 | |
| TEXT: | |
| /LP,/TX | DALLAS -- It may be boom time for the national consumer electronics |
| chains, but computer retailers are not faring as well. CompUSA is suffering | |
| yet another poor quarter, announcing lower than expected sales for the | |
| first nine weeks of its third quarter and warning that the situation will | |
| persist though the end of its current fiscal year, which concludes in June. | |
| The first half of the current fiscal year has been difficult for the | |
| Dallas-based retailer--net income dropped 54% just in the second quarter | |
| ended Dec. 26,1998, to $15.6 million. The decline was just as severe for | |
| the first sixmonth period, with $23.7 million in net income representing a | |
| decline of 58.8% from the yearearlier period. | |
| /TX | While the chain said that January sales were "fairly good," |
| spokeswoman Suzanne Shelton acknowledged that February sales "softened | |
| tremendously." | |
| Computer manufacturers and direct marketers including Dell and Compaq | |
| also announced slower than expected sales earlier in the year, and CompUSA | |
| appears to be suffering the same fate. | |
| While CE chains are racking up double-digit sales gains for the | |
| comparable period, much of this is attributed to sales of higher-margin CE | |
| products and large volume sales of low-priced PCs. Neither can benefit | |
| CompUSA, which relies heavily on higher-margin computer systems and | |
| corporate sales. | |
| "The biggest speculation is that it's Y2K-related," explained | |
| Shelton. In fact, most large companies are already Y2K-compliant and | |
| finished purchasing updated equipment in 1998, while smaller businesses | |
| seem to be holding off until the end of this year. Hence the soft corporate | |
| sales. | |
| CompUSA reported that its non-PC businesses have been strong. | |
| "Internet sales were up 200% in February over the same period last | |
| year; education and government sales had record increases in February; | |
| technical services were good in both January and February; and training had | |
| record sales for those same two months," Shelton said. In addition, she | |
| said, CompUSA acquired more than a dozen new corporate accounts during this | |
| time. | |
| But is it enough to bolster a company caught in the cross hairs of a | |
| changing computer industry and consumer buying habits? | |
| "As nice as it is to see that those businesses are strong, they're | |
| not big enough to move the needle right now," said analyst Harry Katica of | |
| Prudential Securities. "Hopefully they will get big enough." | |
| Part of CompUSA's current financial problem can be attributed to a | |
| difficulty in absorbing the former Computer City chain, which it purchased | |
| in the fall of last year. Converted stores are still performing at | |
| approximately half of a typical CompUSA store, and although management | |
| claims this gap will be narrowed soon, the effort has been a drain on | |
| resources. | |
| "The Computer City stores have obviously been a drag on them," said | |
| Dennis Telzrow, an analyst with Hoak Breedlove Wesneski. | |
| "It's possible that having to turn that business around diverted them | |
| from strategic issues," agreed Katica. | |
| Whether the purchase will ultimately prove beneficial remains to be | |
| seen, but Katica contends that "at the end of the day it will benefit them | |
| to have the critical mass and additional stores." | |
| Meanwhile CompUSA executives have turned their attention to building | |
| other, more profitable businesses within the company, including Internet | |
| sales and CompUSA Direct, which president and ceo Jim Halpin is looking to | |
| spin off into a separate unit in the coming months. In February, the | |
| company named Stephen Polley as chairman and ceo of CompUSA Direct, with | |
| the goal of building a standalone business. | |
| The company also is ramping up for increased sales of the CompUSA PC. | |
| It recently brought production in-house and plans to assemble approximately | |
| 50,000 units this month and introduce a line of notebook computers, as | |
| well. | |
| "A major piece of what they need to be doing is developing the | |
| CompUSA PC brand," said Katica. "They have been very laid back about it and | |
| it's probably time for them to get more aggressive with it." | |
| But while CompUSA Direct and the Internet may represent important | |
| growth vehicles for the future, right now "it's kind of like a gnat on an | |
| elephant's back," said Telzrow. "Their direct business has İlargely¨ been a | |
| catalog business. Until they tell us what their new game plan is, it's a | |
| very big question mark." | |
| As the nation's only computer superstore, it's possible that CompUSA | |
| is very much at risk and facing competition from CE chains, Internet and | |
| other direct marketers. Most analysts lowered their ratings on the company | |
| and CompUSA's stock took a dive, closing at $6 per share March 11, down | |
| from a 52-week high of 29 1/4. | |
| But Katica is sticking to his recommendation of "accumulate." "It | |
| seemed the marketplace had concluded that CompUSA was headed toward | |
| extinction," he said. "I held firm in the face of adversity." | |
| COPYRIGHT 1999 Gale Group | |
| COPYRIGHT 1999 Lebhar-Friedman Inc. | |
| PUBLISHER NAME: Lebhar-Friedman, Inc. | |
| /CO,CO= | COMPANY NAMES: *CompUSA Inc. |
| EC=,EN=,/EN,/DE | EVENT NAMES: *830 (Sales, profits & dividends) |
| GC=,GN=,/GN | GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: *1USA (United States) |
| PC=,PN=,/PN | PRODUCT NAMES: *5734000 (Computer Stores) |
| IC=,IN=,/IN | INDUSTRY NAMES: BUSN (Any type of business); RETL (Retailing) |
| SC=,/DE | SIC CODES: 5734 (Computer and software stores) |
| NC=,/DE | NAICS CODES: 44312 (Computer and Software Stores) |
| TS= | TICKER SYMBOLS: CPU |
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| /CO | CO | Company Name1 | Word | S COMPUSA /CO |
| /DE | DE | Descriptor2 | Word & Phrase |
S SOFTWARE(W)STORE?/DE S WEST GERMANY/DE |
| /EN | EN | Event Name1 | Word | S SALES(W)PROFITS(1W)DIVIDENDS/EN |
| /GN | GN | Geographic Name1,3 | Word | S UNITED(W)STATES/GN |
| /IN | IN | Industry Name1 | Word | S RETAILING/IN |
| /LP | LP | Lead Paragraph | Word | S CURRENT(W)FISCAL(W)YEAR/LP |
| /PN | PN | Product Name1 | Word | S COMPUTER(W)STORE?/PN |
| /TI | TI | Title | Word | S COMPUSA(S)STRUGGLE?/TI |
| /TX | TX | Text | Word | S NOTEBOOK(W)COMPUTER?/TX |
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| IN= | IN | Industry Name1 | Phrase | S IN=ANY TYPE OF BUSINESS |
| JN= | JN | Journal Name | Phrase | S JN=DISCOUNT STORE NEWS |
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| NC= | NC | NAICS Code | Phrase | S NC=44312 |
| PC= | PC | Product Code5 | Phrase | S PC=5734000 |
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Phrase | S PD=19990322 |
| PN= | PN | Product Name1 | Phrase | S PN=COMPUTER STORES |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Phrase | S PY=1999 |
| RT= | RT | Record Type | Phrase | S RT=FULLTEXT |
| SC= | SC | Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code | Phrase | S SC=5734 |
| SF= | SF | Special Feature6 | Phrase | S SF=COMPANY |
| TN= | TN | Trade Name1,6 | Phrase | S TN=ACCEL |
| TS= | TS | Ticker Symbol | Phrase | S TS=CPU |
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