Audio-Visual Asset Value Rebound Highlights Sector’s Resilience

Audio-Visual Asset Value Rebound Highlights Sector’s Resilience 
By: Jonathan Holiday and Jason Rae
Date: September 9, 2021

Tiger Group experts provide insights into the factors asset-based lenders should contemplate when considering lending into the professional A/V sector.

Asset values in the audio/visual (A/V) sector—everything from high-end digital cameras for movie, television and commercial productions, to specialized lighting for live events—continue to strengthen, due in part to the commencement of […]

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Restaurant Rebound Tests the Limits of U.S. Food Distributors

Restaurant Rebound Tests the Limits of U.S. Food Distributors
Foodservice distributors generally adapted well to the massive disruptions triggered by the pandemic, but the sector is feeling the strain of the latest shift – the rapid return of tens of millions of Americans to in-person dining.
By: Eric Schloemer

Date: June 28, 2021

Historically, foodservice inventory and M&E have been good, stable forms of collateral, and the prospects of […]

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Have No Fear: Why the Rise of Amazon Is Good For the ABL Sector

By Andy Babcock and Ryan Davis
The metamorphosis of Amazon from a bookseller to one of the largest retailers on the planet has permanently changed the business landscape. Yet ABL lenders have hesitated to lend against inventory held at Amazon’s warehouses. Tiger Capital’s Andy Babcock and Ryan Davis assuage lenders’ fears. They explain how the Fulfillment by Amazon program benefits sellers and creates a seamless, profitable […]

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Finding the Sweet Spot in Retail Dispositions

Baseball players often wax poetic about the “sweet spot”: that point where the bat’s barrel meets the ball and the result is a perfectly struck shot rising gloriously away from the batter’s box. You don’t need to watch it. Flip the bat to the batboy and start your trot; you know the ball’s gone. Liquidators also speak of the sweet spot—that point in a disposition […]

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New Rules for Remarketing M&E, Inventory and IP

When creditors hired Tiger Group to liquidate the assets of Sherwood Brands, a U.S. candy manufacturer and distributor, the sale followed what might be thought of as today’s “new rules for maximizing asset recovery.” These new rules reflect the expanded role we believe we must play to be competitive in today’s fastpaced and more complex business culture. At some point, one could argue, we opened […]

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