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May 19Edited

Excellent write up. Do you know why they added a new 8 mil debt this qtr? Also, how did you arrive at the EV?

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I am only familiar with the private label operations they had overseas in Asia and for them being focused on doing private label e.g. a supermarket chain outsources private label to them... The problem is that eventually the chain can figure out how to do it themselves and cut them out as the pricey middlemen + private label people have told me SPAR charges too much aka its cheaper to source products (this is for Asian supermarket chains who are closer to the suppliers & have Chinese speaking staff) and do everything in-house - assuming you can find experienced private label people to work for you directly and do it... In fact, I know some SPAR people who ended up working for their supermarket client when they decided to cut out SPAR the middlemen or when SPAR scaled back their ops in Asia (after loosing a key client from Japan...)... I guess you can say they are like CBRE or JLL - there will always be a need for middlemen in some industries BUT I am not familiar with SPAR's other middlemen type activities you mentioned or what the market is like for those... Not sure if they even still have sourcing or buying offices in Asia - big American retailers would...

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