July 9, 2024

Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus merger: some pros and cons

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Hello Everyone
Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus are merging to create a luxury department store empire. And Amazon wants to help.
Saks owner HBC announced a deal Thursday to acquire Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion, establishing a luxury behemoth called Saks Global that has the two namesake department stores plus Saks Off 5th discount store and the upscale Bergdorf Goodman.

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I will be talking about some very interesting luxury items,

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you know, the merger of two companies you know, two

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mhm h. The folks article says, you know, today's topic

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is about Nima Marcus and Sax with avenues luxury brand merger,

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pross and cons So today I have this study from

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here the Sacks Neeman Marcus deal, the good, the bad,

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and the complicated. So it says the news that SAX

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is buying it's from Forbes, and it says the news

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that SAX is buying its longtime luxury department store Nemezus.

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Neman Markers seemed invetable for years. In fact, I recently

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opined in my two twenty four productions that circumstances would

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finally conspire to make it a reality. Having once been

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part of Neman Marcus executive leadership, team during a time

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when the company was valued at double what SAX is

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now paying. I have many store views about how we

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got here, what it all means, and where we are

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likely headed. I attempt to unpack these below. As the

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saying goes, Denial is not a river in Egypt. The

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transaction finally acknowledges the reality that the North American luxury

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brand store model has been under result and in contraction

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mode for some time. While putting two fairly mediocre companies

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together does not guarantee remarkable success, it does create the

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underlying conditions for a better feature. Now I will go

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global infection and who is spreading it? Help us find out.

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It is ultimately quite sad that we ended up here.

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But if the FTC allows the deal to go through,

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which is far from guaranteed, there are meaningful opportunities to

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improve all the nameplates caused position, to provide a stronger

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counterbalance to vendors increasingly powerful positions, and to rationalize and

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reposition the portfolio of stores and brand offerings to greater

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competitive advantage and improved gross margins. While it remains unclear

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the precise role of Amazon and Salesforce as partners in

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the new entity, both bring potentially powerful financial and technology

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capital to the table, it pays me is to see

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Nyman markers go from the clear and iconic leadership position,

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as well as solid top line growth and a strong profitability,

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to a place where it has been retrenching and closing stores,

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was forced to file for bankruptcy and getting sold at

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a dramatic and appealing haircut from its peak valuation of

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dollars six billion in twenty thirteen. But this is the

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price that gets paid for failing to transform at the

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speed of disruption and for mostly watching the last decade

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to happen to them. So now, folks, I will go

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cheers and bye. But while I fully expect the Neiman,

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Marcus and Bob Dog brands to be mented, I also

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anticipate considerable consolidation of roles and responsibilities, most of which

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will presumably be of SAX New York offices. This is

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not only means significant can layoffs across Neiman Marcus Group operations,

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but a likely cutting of the Dallas home office. Neiman

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Marcus was founded in Dallas one sixteen years ago and

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has been an increasingly vibrant part of the business and

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social scene ever since. Having it melded into its once

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lesser rival is a bitter pillow to slow for employees,

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clients and a broader fashion and vendor community. So now, folks,

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so now there is a news from geek wire and

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here it is, and it says Amazon's investment in Sacks

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Fifth Avenue and NeiMa Marcus is its latest foray into fashion.

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By Todd Bishop on July nine, twenty twenty four, at

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ten point four aoh four am in depth Amazon coverage

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from the tech giants hometown, including a commerce Aws, Amazon

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Prime Alexa logistic devices and more. Will six Sax Fifth

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Avenue and NeiMa Marcus help Amazon fights its fashion fit

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That's the That's the question after the news last week

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that the tech giant will become a minority investor in

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SAX Glober, the luxury retail and real estate company to

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be created by Sacks Fifth Avenue parent companies LPC's planned

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accusation of Memur Market Group in a deal valued at

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two point six five billion. Industry analysa Amazon's involvement could

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give the company new insights and additional momentum in a

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retail segment that has long considered a key component of

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its overall e commerce strategy. The investment could also help

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to counter criticism of Amazon's impact on traditional retailers in

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an era of heightened regulatory scrutiny. It's part of a

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recent trend of tech companies making strategic investments in leo

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of outright or acquisitions. Through this pattern has been more

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evident and artificial intelligence startups. Amazon has been involved in

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fashion on numerous fronts for more than two decades, stretching

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back to the launch of its April and Necessaries A

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store in two thousand and two. In partnership with major

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retailers at the time. In addition tools Amazon Fashion, e

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Commerce store Front and Prime Tribe before for You Buy

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service formerly Prime Wardrobe, the company dabbles in bricks and

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mortar fashion retailing before closing in two Amazon Style clothing

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stores in Glendale, California, and Columbus, Ohio last fall. Separately,

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the company plans a new online store fund for low

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price April and home goods shipping directly to customers from

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China to compete with Temu and Sene. According to a

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June twenty six report by Bloomberg News, by simultaneously investing

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its position at the high end of the market. Official

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details are stats at this point, The size and value

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of amazon expected steak in SACS Global are unknown, with

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the deals still pending. Amazon declined to comment Tuesday in

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response to geek wis inquiry. The July four press release

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about the deal included one line, Amazon will be an

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investor and in and work with sex Global to innovate

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on behalf of customers and brand partners. Following the close

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Neiman Marcus increases new application speed to market by fifty

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percent on AWS. Improved digital selling for associates. A luxury

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household name Neiman Markers. This is from Amazon. Yeah, a

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luxury household name NeiMa Marcus has a reputation for deping

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a first class personalized customer service experience. To modernize and

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enhance that experience, the company wanted to develop Connect and

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omni channel digital selling application that would empower associates to

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view rich, personalized customer information, with the goal of making

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each customer interaction unforgettable. When the COVID nineteen pandemic forced

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many retail stores to close, the company sales moved exclusively

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online to continue providing the hallmark experience that had always

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attracted customers, Nieman Markers needed to launch Connect quickly to

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enable associates to perform digital stele selling. Choosing a severe

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Less architecture with mobile development solutions on Amazon Web Services

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enabled the development team to launch the app much faster

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than in the four months it had originally planned. Using AWS,

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Cloud Native and severe Less technologies, we increased our speed

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to market by at least fifty percent and were able

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to accelerate the launch of Connect, says Siram When, the

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Northern Senior Director of Omni Engineering at Nieman Markers. This

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approach also greatly reduced app building costs and provided developers

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with more agility for the development and rapid development of updates.

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The app elastically scales to support traffic at any volume

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for greater cost efficiency, and it has increased associate productivity,

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empowering associates to elevate the customer XPS. Neiman Markers is

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the flagship brand of the Neiman Marcus Group, a luxury

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retail organizations founded in nineteen oh seven and generating two

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point six billion dollars in annual revenue from its subsidiaries.

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Before Nieman Markers developed connect, associates were using an assortment

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of tools and technologies to provide customer service. Each solution

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provided a different piece of information and associate needed to

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generate a sale. Some of these solutions were outdated and

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all of them were creating friction. As a result, they

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were increasing sell times and decreasing associate productivity. The development

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team set out to create an app that would aggregate

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comprehensive range of customer data and present it in one place.

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The team had three goals in mind to increase productivity,

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support omni channel selling, and empower associates to deepen customer relationship.

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Neman Markus was eager to resolve the challenges that associates

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the fail and to develop deliver on its wide glove

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customer experience when stores close, the company's pre existing plants

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for launching and implementing the app were significantly accelerated. Additional

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pressure mounted on our team to roll out the new application.

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We had to go to mark the market double quick,

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and we were able to do it with the technical

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foundation we had in place and with the right set

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of tools and text says. With Nathan building several less

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apps with speed to speed up its app development time,

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the Nieman Markers team chose to build on a severless

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architecture using AWS amplify, a set of tools and services

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that friend end web and mobile developers can use to

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build scalable full clack application powered by AWS. The team

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quickly config gird the app using AWS amplify workflows, then

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connected the app to the back end using open source

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client libry is. It used a WS amplify to set

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up secure authentication and authorization flows for sign up and

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sign in and excess control with a fully managed user

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directory powered by Amazon Cognito, a user debly service that

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handles registration, authentication, and account recovery. So this is you know.

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You can read more about it on this website. Aws

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of Amazon. So now folks, I will go on a

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break and we'll be back soon.

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Viewers around the group.

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Plus talk for TV show And if you give me sponsorship,

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Years. And bye bye.

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So now another pros and cons for Neiman Marcus uh

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and and the Sacks Scrift Avenue thing. You know that

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it is very good that they are bringing it online,

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but they already had an online thing. So what is

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the different? My question is again, you know, like, will

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Amazon acquire everything because and it will be such a

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big company that how small companies like mine you know

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could flourish? You know, so so what do small company

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companies do? Will they be taking clothes? You know, I

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don't sell clothes or anything, but I have us all

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media company, so so will they be taking some spokesperson

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or something you know, well, will they be expanding that?

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And I would love to have their sponsorship and has

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on this sponsorship. So I would like to know that

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how you how my show can be sponsored by them?

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