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For the Sears Company, provide a brief detail how the company remains open after burning through over $6 billion in cash over four years just to keep the doors open In 2005, Eddie Lampert, the 51% primary shareholder of Sears Holding Co. (now ESL Investments and Transform SR Brands LLC), acquired the company through a combination with Kmart, earning him the moniker "financial genius." He utilized his acquired Kmart's inflated earnings and stock price to purchase Sears after successfully rescuing the company from bankruptcy and reducing capital investment (Isidore, 2018). In addition to being an extremely successful hedge fund manager in the market, ESL investments is owned by him, and he was a successful private equity owner. Eddie's ego was undoubtedly enhanced by the fact that a private equity owner took over a retail behemoth like Kmart, combined it with Sears, and used non-retail
strategies to make it look successful. Eddie Lampert assumed some of the most intricate and comprehensive financial engineering the retail industry has ever seen when he became chairman of Sears Holdings and eventually became CEO (Unglesbee, 2021a). Instead of using retail strategies, hedge fund financials and mathematics were used. Later, this became disastrous for both Sears America and Sears Canada, causing the latter to file for bankruptcy in 2017 (Unglesbee, 2021b). Eddie transferred hundreds of Sears' most valuable assets to a real estate investment company named Seritage Growth Properties, in which ESL has a large stake, when Sears was on the verge of bankruptcy. Lampert and ESL earned above-market rent income from Sears through Seritage in addition to holding the
pricey real estate assets (Unglesbee, 2021b). Eddie and his friends seem to have purchased Kmart and Sears, then proceeded to plunder the companies' assets using cunning financial scheme manipulations and deception in order to maximize profits, all the while transferring ownership of the companies' assets and equity from
unsecured creditors to themselves. Based on the financials presented, it seems that Eddie, the principal owner, was the one who was trying to take advantage of Sears and transfer all of its worth to him. This is clear by looking at line items 42 and up in the financial statement: proceeds
from loan issuances, where Sears raised money by guaranteeing Eddie's payment. Line item 32 is
another: income from investments and property sales in which the finest retail assets brought in over $2.7 billion in 2016. This money was most likely given to Eddie's Seritage Growth Properties (Sears, 2017). As of right now, Eddie Lampert's Transformco purchased Sears Holdings in the beginning of 2019. With the exception of a few locations, the Sears Company is essentially a husk of what it once was, having filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and fought a protracted legal battle over the last
2.5 years (Unglesbee, 2021a). Even though they are the most successful Sears has ever run, the remaining locations only make a pitiful profit while they are in business. Eddie and his accomplices have persisted in dragging out the legal proceedings against them in order to avoid having to pay creditors. Many of the retailer's suppliers are among those who have been waiting for payment for goods that were supplied years ago. The Sears case is among the most costly retail bankruptcy case in history due to the length of time it was in chapter 11 bankruptcy and its complexity. Eddie is dragging things out as suppliers find it harder and harder to recoup any of their losses due to Sears Holdings' mountain of legal and consultancy expenditures (Unglesbee, 2021a). Eddie slyly took advantage of Sears for personal benefit. His "hidden" profit, litigation strategies, and insider knowledge of the financial systems were unprecedented in the retail sector. He has exerted every effort to transform Sears and Kmart into his personal playground. After closing more than 3500 establishments, his treasured possessions are the stores that remain.
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