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Hilco Merchant Resources, LLC
Liquidity Creation and Organizational Right-Sizing
Analytical, operational, asset monetization, capital investment and advisory services to help retailers define and execute their strategic initiatives. Activities fall into six principal categories:
- Acquisition or disposition of underperforming or duplicative stores to maximize the value of inventory and related assets.
- Retail company or division wind downs.
- Conducting of event sales to convert unwanted assets into working capital.
- Facilitation of mergers and acquisitions by taking on unwanted retail assets.
- Interim management of retail companies or divisions.
- Comprehensive services to monetize furniture, fixtures and equipment.
In every engagement, Hilco places maximum emphasis on maintaining the integrity our client’s brands and respecting both their employees and customers.
SD Retail Consulting, LLC
Profit and Performance Enhancement
Strategic and tactical consulting services to overcome the challenges posed by today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing business climate. Services focus on six principal categories critical to retail execution and performance:
- Transformational Store Execution.
- Workforce Management.
- Merchandising and Supply Chain Optimization.
- HQ Effectiveness and Strategic Cost Reduction.
- Customer Experience and Strategic Growth Initiatives.
- Loss Prevention.
Hilco Appraisal Services, LLC
Valuation Services
The world leader in tangible and intangible asset appraisals and enterprise valuations for the retailing industry. Activities fall into four principal categories:
- Inventory, furniture, fixtures and equipment, and real estate appraisals for financings and M&A transactions.
- Intellectual property valuations, including trade names and customer lists.
- Enterprise valuations for M&A transactions.
- SFAS141 and SFAS142 valuations.
- Collateral monitoring.
Agent Trading
Corporate Trading (Barter)
Acquisition of unwanted or surplus retail inventory and related assets to maximize value, create liquidity and enhance cash flow. Through the use of corporate trading, we can reduce a retailer’s operating expenses. Activities center upon:
- Acquisition of underperforming retail assets at full cost with proprietary currency (barter credits), then providing the means to utilize the currency as partial payment towards the purchase of budgeted goods and services.
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Hilco Real Estate, LLC
Real Estate Portfolio Optimization
Strategic and transactional services to minimize real estate costs and optimize the value of owned and leased property.
Activities fall into six principal categories:
- Termination, lease restructuring and sale/assignment of one-off or portfolio-wide leasehold obligations.
- Sale/leasebacks and sales of non-essential owned properties.
- Principal acquisitions of non-essential owned or leased properties.
- Real estate appraisals for acquisition, disposition, financing or restructuring purposes.
- Real estate asset and property management services.
- Advisory services to creditors and debtors on problem loans, OREO assets and disposition strategies.
Merchant Analytics Solutions
Loss Prevention Services
Sustainable bottom-line improvement through enhancement of traditional LP measures and POS transaction monitoring. We deliver a comprehensive, proactive and powerful solution that significantly diminishes the impact of all forms of sales reducing activities (SRAs). Across all 11 core areas of a Retailer’s business, we:
- Gather and analyze historical data for a period up to four years.
- Apply sophisticated, proprietary data mining and analysis tools, layered over the Merchant’s existing systems, to identify weaknesses.
- Identify and employ countermeasures that will eliminate or mitigate Sales Reducing Activities (SRAs).
- Correct and improve the Merchant’s processes, procedures and systems.
Hilco Consumer Capital
Equity Investments
Strategic equity investments in North American consumer products companies and iconic consumer brand names.
- At the heart of our success is the ability to recognize both the intrinsic and potential value in an underperforming brand or stable of brands.
- Majority, control equity investments as large as $250 million with $25 million to $100 million being our preferred investment range.
- Revitalization of brands, restructuring and operation of businesses, and generation of new revenue streams through strategic initiatives such as creative brand licensing and innovative advertising.
- Key to our strategy is partnering with best-in-class management teams.
- Our senior leadership has operational and financial expertise in retailing. We work closely with portfolio company management teams to provide strategic and financial guidance.
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