Making sense of the Global Market, Euromonitor International Ltd.

Yu Mitsuhashi

Making sense of the Global Market

Euromonitor International Ltd.

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Equity Bottom-Up

<p>Every quarter seems to bring new tidings of woe from US-based Sears Holdings Corp, the company that owns Sears department stores and the Kmart chain of mass merchandisers. Disappointing earnings statements, store closures, and liquidity crises have become the norm, as the company has continued to lose market share to competitors like Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Best Buy, and – most recently – Amazon.</p><p>On 5 January 2016, in a move that reflected the company’s increasingly uncertain future, Sears Holdings announced that it had agreed to sell its well-respected brand of Craftsman tools and equipment to US-based tools giant Stanley Black &amp; Decker Inc, while also revealing the closure of an additional 150 Sears and Kmart stores.</p>

Every quarter seems to bring new tidings of woe from US-based Sears Holdings Corp, the company that owns Sears department stores and the Kmart chain of mass merchandisers. Disappointing earnings statements, store closures, and liquidity crises have become the norm, as the company has continued to lose market share to competitors like Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Best Buy, and – most recently – Amazon.On 5 January 2016, in a move that reflected the company’s increasingly uncertain future, Sears Holdings announced that it had agreed to sell its well-respected brand of Craftsman tools and equipment to US-based tools giant Stanley Black &amp; Decker Inc, while also revealing the closure of an additional 150 Sears and Kmart stores.

Sears Holdings Clings to Life by Selling Craftsman