Fashion houses looking to shed brand names in a tough market

Online, December 10, 2009 (Newswire.com) - December 9, 2009 - Fashion and trends in the global luxury goods market. The timing is hot. As fashion houses are potentially looking to shed many of their brand names JayCee James, socialite, and celebrity business entrepreneur is planning new opportunities to acquire and expand luxury labels to gain new market share on a global scale. As the market for new jobs continues to shrink JayCee James (twitter.com/jayceejames) socialite and reknown celebrity entrepreneur who recently launched a bid to acquire a proprietary large scale search engine is looking at the possibilities of acquiring a leading fashion label. The most attractive segments continue to be jewelry, watches, eyewear, luxury drinks, and cosmetics. A high profile brand name from the makes of LVMH, Celine, Loewe, Kenzo, or DKNY could put the celebrity into the middle of a couture market that is shrinking.

"Beginning in the next seven years the luxury goods market will see globalization, consolidation, and diversification. The emphasis from 2012 - 2016 will be on Shopping Avenues and an enhanced online presence".

The fashion industry is taking notice of the new celebrity player in the world of high profile corporate raiders, white knights, and activist shareholders. "By the year 2019 I think the luxury good will become a normal good or median item for consumers throughout the U.S.
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About JayCee James:
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Celebrity Name: JayCee James, Socialite & Celebrity Entrepreneur
Press Coverage:

Recent Transctions:
1. Recently launched a bid to acquire a search engine. Some brief details are listed below. The name of the company is confidential.

Details:
Proprietary, Large Scale Search Technology. One of the only such systems built in the last decade, in addition to
those of Inktomi, Yahoo, Google, and MSN/ Bing.

$45 million of equity capital proceeds from institutional venture capital funds and other private investors from
2004-2008

Funded and vetted by well-known institutional venture capital funds. The most recent formal round of equity
capital in April 2008 valued the company's assets at approximately $250 million post-money.

2. Signed Master Services Agreement to broadcast across the Intelsat fleet of satellites

November News Release (Repreint permission granted):

Celebrity Hauteness. Socialite and celebrity entrepreneur JayCee James has an eye for luxury fashion labels. The timing is haute.

The timing has got to be haute. As fashion houses are potentially looking to shed many of their brand names celebrity entrepreneur and socialite JayCee James is planning new opportunities to acquire and expand luxury labels.

Haute Fire in the works. The World of fashion is rapidly evolving.

As fashion houses are potentially looking to shed many of their brand names JayCee James is planning new opportunities to acquire and expand luxury labels to gain new market share on a global scale as the rebound in the economy continues to get underway. JayCee James, socialite and celebrity entrepreneur is most recently noted for his bid to acquire a proprietary large scale search engine which is still in the works and for his entertainment venture write up in the Hollywood Reporter. The potential acquisition of a leading fashion house and labels in segments like jewelry, watches, eyewear, luxury drinks, and cosmetics is attractive due to the current opportunity in the industry. A high profile brand name from the makes of LVMH, Celine, Loewe, Kenzo, or DKNY could put JayCee James into the middle of a couture market that is said to be shrinking. Although it has been said that Labels for sale right now are at prices that are still too high as the economy continues its beginning recovery stages, the right suitor could make a world of difference. Getting Wall Street to come to the table during thee infancy stages of a recovery is for highly skilled financiers.

"As I continue my plans to expand a new acquisition house the dominant trends in the global luxury goods market beginning in the next seven years will be globalization, consolidation, and diversification". The emphasis from 2012 - 2016 will be on Shopping Avenues and an enhanced online presence. JayCee James believes Shopping Avenues will remain and increasingly be dedicated to Luxury Shops.

As a celebrity himself, JayCee James has entered the world of Carl Icahn, and Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, Robert M. Bass, and other high profile corporate raiders, white knights, and activist shareholders. JayCee gained his prominence by doing what few can do. Now in the ranks of renowned corporate raiders JayCee James is focusing his transactions in high technology, Retail, and Communications. The NYSE, NASD, OTCBB and private markets should provide the new raider and shareholder activist JayCee James with transactions ranging from the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Real life is imitating Hollywood again as JayCee James who's been written up in the Hollywood Reporter, the Economist, Exeter, and USA WEEKEND Magazine just to name a few brings to mind the robber baron and corporate raider type as seen in popular culture movies like Pretty Woman, Wall Street, Other People's Money, and Howard Hughes (as actors and actresses so elegantly portrayed) as the economy starts coming out of its depression with a landscape of unbridled opportunity. "By the year 2019 the luxury good I think will become a normal good or median item for consumers throughout the U.S. In the next 5 to 10 years we should start to see the wave of Conventional and independent retailers entering the public stock markets to build up their war chests." Is he on your invite list? Put him on your public corporate functions & special events invite list and follow JayCee James' celebrity Twitter and larger than life' exploits. www.twitter.com/JayCeeJames. Become a Fan.
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