Industry Trends – Tiger Group

Distress Leads to More Auctions of ‘Green’ Machinery & Equipment

Distress Leads to More Auctions of ‘Green’ Machinery & Equipment
By Chad Farrell
Sustainable startups benefit from sunny media coverage, significant government subsidies and generous investment from Silicon Valley. But over the past few years, distress has emerged as a clear trend among some of these borrowers. Some of these operators simply run out of money, others face insufficient market demand or struggle to make good on promises […]

By Chad Farrell

Appraisals / Corporate / Industry Trends / Insights / Retail

Revitalizing Distressed Companies with Data-Driven Turnarounds and Strategic Restructuring

Revitalizing Distressed Companies with Data-Driven Turnarounds and Strategic Restructuring
By Violet Synnestvedt
Ryan Davis, executive managing director at Tiger Group, has transformed the ABL industry by using data-driven strategies to restructure, rather than liquidate, distressed companies. His focus on preserving a company’s core strengths has saved more than 100 jobs and revitalized numerous businesses that may otherwise have been dissolved.
Davis joined Tiger in 2006 as a financial […]

By Tiger Group

Insights / Retail / Retail

Asset-Based Lenders Give Fashion Companies New Options

Asset-Based Lenders Give Fashion Companies New Options
By: Bradley W. Snyder

Many industries in North America—including apparel—continue to face financing challenges due in no small measure to the pullback from today’s more risk-averse national banks. This post-Covid-era trend is part of the reason for an increase in distress and bankruptcy filings among retailers and wholesale distributors.
In many cases, distressed companies are operating with higher-than-optimal inventory levels—a holdover […]

By Bradley W. Snyder

Finance / Insights / Retail

ABL Sector Must Stay Vigilant Amid ‘Growth of Shrink’

ABL Sector Must Stay Vigilant Amid ‘Growth of Shrink’
By: Bill Mayer

In what might be thought of as “the growth of shrink,” American retailers are pointing to shoplifting, organized retail crime and employee theft as significant drags on their profitability. The big-box discounter Target, for one, said its profits could take a $500 million hit from shrink this year alone. Notably, in a recent CNBC appearance, […]

By Bill Mayer

Appraisals / Insights / Retail / Wholesale

What Asset-Based Lending Can Learn from AI in the Grocery Sector

What Asset-Based Lending Can Learn from AI in the Grocery Sector
By: Bradley W. Snyder

OpenAI’s bombshell release of ChatGPT underscores two realities that ought to be top-of-mind for asset-based lenders everywhere.

The first is that artificial intelligence—essentially, machines that sift through vast quantities of data to identify patterns and tell themselves what to do—will play a bigger role in borrower health. The second is that ABLs need […]

By Bradley W. Snyder

Insights / Retail

Taking Stock of Retail’s Reversal of Fortune

Taking Stock of Retail’s Reversal of Fortune
By: Michael McGrail

Those who run retail liquidations have had to continually shoot down a popular misconception over the past couple of years that “you must be incredibly busy right now.”

The mistaken assumption is based on the thinking that retail bankruptcies have exploded since COVID-19 as things were terrible during the lockdowns and now everyone shops online. However, the true […]

By Michael McGrail

Appraisals / Industry Trends / Intellectual Property / Retail

The Art and Science of Loaning Against Trademarks

The Art and Science of Loaning Against Trademarks
By: Eric Gul

Trademarks are one of the fastest-growing collateral categories in the ABL sector—due in no small part to the ease with which owners of properly supported brands can sell their products via multiple channels, including e-commerce, m-commerce, wholesale distribution, and retail stores. On the consumer side, younger generations are driving much of the e-commerce and m-commerce demand. […]

By Eric Gul

Appraisals / Industry Trends / Retail

Tiger’s Appraisal Chief Sees Prime ABL Opportunities at Amazon FBA

Tiger’s Appraisal Chief Sees Prime ABL Opportunities at Amazon FBA
By: ABL Advisor Staff Writer

Wholesale and retail inventories have always been a mainstay for lenders, but with millions of businesses now selling their wares on Amazon, what are the potential implications for the ABL sector?

ABL Advisor sat down with Ryan Davis, Managing Director of Tiger Valuation Services, to discuss some of the considerations involved in lending to Amazon sellers. “Inventory quality […]

By Tiger Group

Appraisals / Industrial / Industry Trends / Retail

Does the Current ‘Logistics Nightmare’ Have a Surprising Upside?

Does the Current ‘Logistics Nightmare’ Have a Surprising Upside?
By: Ryan Davis

Could today’s global supply chain disruption contain some good news for asset-based lenders? That may seem like a counterintuitive question given that the current inventory crunch — supplies have dropped to levels not seen since just after the Great Recession — has led many borrowers to massively downsize their ABL lines. In addition, many of […]

By Ryan Davis

Appraisals / Industrial / Industry Trends

Audio-Visual Asset Value Rebound Highlights Sector’s Resilience

Audio-Visual Asset Value Rebound Highlights Sector’s Resilience
By: Jonathan Holiday and Jason Rae

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 productions and the […]

By Jonathan Holiday