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Kairos is the “right or opportune moment.”

The Kairos Group based in Boston, MA was formed in 2007 to sponsor and implement actionable and relevant strategic solutions for retail and consumer products companies throughout North America.  Multi-strategy situations typically involve the need for capital or rapid deployment of strategic and operational resources utilizing our own merchant and operating partners.  Drawing upon our collective years of direct experience and proven results, we look to partner with management and owners of small to mid-size businesses, typically with annual revenues under $200 million, in navigating though periods of growth, distress, change and opportunity.  Situations often involve asset disposition and recovery strategies or unique opportunities involving growth, acquisitions, turnarounds and mergers.

Our team brings together over a century of collective industry expertise in concept development, operations, finance, logistics, sourcing, core business expansion and timely exit strategies — all relevant tools in the new economy. Kairos applies industry best practices and expertise in developing the success of good concepts and management teams in underserved, undervalued and underperforming companies.

Consumers See More Retail Closures As Inevitable

Results from a recent Datamonitor survey reveals that 78% of respondents across Australia, Canada, the UK and the US believe that "lots more shops will close down".

UK shoppers emerged as the most pessimistic, with 89% of respondents mostly agreeing with this statement. Conversely, just under 15% of respondents across the four countries believe that more new shops will open during the course of the recession.

These findings are profoundly worrying for the retail industry and also for the commercial property sector. Consumer spending is under pressure globally, and the fact that consumers expect to see more retail stores and chains closing seems to suggest that they are pessimistic about their ability to go out and spend in the short to medium term.

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