Posted in CompUSA, Retail, tagged Retail, CompUSA, TigerDirect on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a quick update. Systemax and TigerDirect are ambitiously continuing with plans to reinvigorate what’s left of CompUSA. The optimism is nice to read.
”Everything will be brand new,” says TigerDirect CEO Gilbert Fiorentino.
Systemax paid $30 million for 16 existing stores, the CompUSA brand name, and the website.
Florida will me the main focus, with 12 of [...]
Posted in CompUSA, tagged Retail, Acquisitions, CompUSA, TigerDirect on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Systemax, a direct marketer of PCs and accessories, who owns the better known TigerDirect, is purchasing some of the remaining CompUSA. Key details, so far:
They’ll purchase the CompUSA brand, trademarks, and e-commerce business.
They’ll acquire “select assets and retail stores…. looking at up to 16 CompUSA locations in Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico, which it says will [...]
Posted in CompUSA, Retail, tagged Retail, CompUSA, Wal-Mart, Apple Stores, Amazon, Amazon MP3 on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
CompUSA has gone out of business with the start of the new year. They struggled the last few years, closing 126 stores earlier in 2007, and finally liquidating in December.
There are plenty of places on the Web for you to find CompUSA-bashers if you’re into that sort of thing, but I’m not doing that here. From [...]
