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Non-Tech : FTL- Fruit of the Loom -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Tang who wrote (127)	8/17/2001 2:31:40 AM
From: Clement	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 161

> You worked in a bank, you never sold bikini underwear. You have no clue as to what my background is. In any event, let's make it analogous. You're a consultant. And judging by your website, you don't know how to do much of anything (well). Whether or not I have sold bikini underwear has nothing to do with the price of tea in China -- what I do know is that the volumes are not going to happen overnight in any new product line especially in one so specious as the one you suggest. Newsflash: tastes do not change overnight. Secondly, when you get into marketing higher end type textile products, you need considerably more marketing, and marketing that is of a different nature. It does not take a genius to figure that out. > I am a consultant, so, I can tell you that FTL is not > thorough in their strategy. Frankly I hope that you are a better consultant than you are an investor judging by the stocks that are posted on your website. You may be able to fool small unsophisticated investors. > You don't sell more with less product lines. As a consultant you should know that ultimately what counts is profitability. You do not get better margins by continually changing over product lines. You gain operational efficiency by gaining focus. The book I mentioned was also written by consultants at Bain -- far more successful than you will likely ever be. > Write all you can, but you don't have enough information > without learning what it takes to run a business. Odd, neither would it seem do you. You still haven't countered my arguments. You have yet to acknowledge that your hope that there will be any salvage value for FTL common stock is dismally small. Your view of business is flawed and juvenile. There are management thinkers today have built and developed long ago on what you try to parry off as innovative. It's ironic -- those who say "enough said" often don't have any arguments of substance. > Stupid is when people stopped learning. You should consider taking some of your own advice.