Margo Georgiadis

Mattel Inc (NASDAQ: MAT) announced Thursday that Margo Georgiadis was stepping down as CEO and would be replaced by Ynon Kreiz. The pressure on Mattel and other toy manufacturers has increased since the liquidation of Toys ‘R’ Us. Stifel: 'Mixed' Reaction “Our...

Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) presented to investors a compelling long-term strategy but with one notable missing component: timing. DA Davidson Linda Bolton Weiser downgrades Mattel's stock rating from Buy to Neutral with a price target slashed from $30 to $24. While Mattel's CEO Margo Georgiadis...

Shares of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) continue flirting with its 52-week lows of $21.55 ahead of the company's Investor Day presentation (on June 14) and expectations are relatively high, Wells Fargo's Timothy Conder noted in a research report. Mattel's top priority would be for CEO Margo Georgiadis...

The first-quarter results of the two largest publicly traded U.S. toymakers — Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) and Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) — are already out, and in biblical proportions, Davidian Hasbro rose in stature and ranks to topple the Mattel Goliath. Q1 Summary Mattel reported...

Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT)'s "ugly" quarter prompted Eric Handler to lower his price target on the toymaker from $27 to $24 while maintaining a Neutral rating. According to Handler, Mattel's revenue and earnings per share shortfall in the first quarter was attributed to a lower level of reorders...

Investor enthusiasm over this CEO selection seems short lived. Short sellers had a healthy stake in the toy maker through the holiday season. The stock is up sharply since the beginning of the year. Enthusiasm among investors over Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) selecting a new chief executive officer...

Margo Georgiadis joined Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) in 2009 when it was known as Google and one of the highest ranking advertising executives. Georgiadis' History In 2011 she left Google to join Groupon Inc (NASDAQ: GRPN) for a brief stint as chief operating officer. However, after...

Disrupt to survive. That was one of the shared underlying themes at the 2015 Global Retailing Conference at University of Arizona’s Terry J. Lundgren School of Retailing on April 24-25 in Tucson. The state of retail is essentially Darwinian. Virtually every retailer has experienced...