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Circuit City

Circuit City (NYSE: CC) is the 2nd largest electronics retailer in the United States. Based in Richmond, Virginia, its over 600 stores located throughout the country have departments like Audio and Video, Camcorders and Photo, Home and Office, Music and Movies, and Toys and Games. The chain of stores also has services such as Express In-Store Pickup (24-24 Pick-up Guarantee), and Price Match Plus Guarantee.

On February 11, 2005, a hedge fund headquartered in Boston, Highfields Capital, offered to takeover Circuit City for $17 a share, arguing that existing management had failed to maximize shareholder value.

On March 7, Circuit City's board rejected this offer, but doubled its own share buy back program.

Circuit City owns The Source by Circuit City (formerly Radio Shack) chain in Canada.

Circuit City started and owned the CarMax Group as a wholly owned subsidiary until fall 2002, when CarMax, Inc. was spun off as a separate corporation.

Diversity

Circuit City scored a 29% on the 2004 Corporate Equality Index by the Human Rights Campaign.

Circuit City-Owned Brand Names

  • Centrios
  • ESA
  • Liquid Video
  • NexxTech
  • Verge

Slogans

  • "Where Service is State of the Art." (1949-1992?)
  • "Price, Selection, and Service."
  • "Imagine That." (2001)
  • "We're with You." (2001-2004)
  • "Just What I Needed." (2004-Present)
  • "Circuit City makes it Simple" (2005 Holiday Season)

Trivia

Sometime in the late 1970's, when the company that was to become Circuit City was seeking a new name for its stores, a marketing firm was hired to find suitable names. One of the firm's principals mentioned this to his nephew, a Pennsylvania electrical engineer, who quickly thought of the name Circuit City. The engineer signed a release form and was paid $50 for his suggestion.


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On March 7, Circuit City's board rejected this offer, but doubled its own share buy back program. Two hours after a single dose of oral Plavix®, platelet inhibition can be demonstrated. On February 11, 2005, a hedge fund headquartered in Boston, Highfields Capital, offered to takeover Circuit City for $17 a share, arguing that existing management had failed to maximize shareholder value. The blockade of this receptor inhibits platelet aggregation. The chain of stores also has services such as Express In-Store Pickup (24-24 Pick-up Guarantee), and Price Match Plus Guarantee. This receptor is named P2Y12 and is important in platelet aggregation, the cross-linking of platelets by fibrin. Based in Richmond, Virginia, its over 600 stores located throughout the country have departments like Audio and Video, Camcorders and Photo, Home and Office, Music and Movies, and Toys and Games. The mechanism of action of clopidogrel is irreversible blockade of the adenosine diphosphate (ADP) receptor on platelet cell membranes.

Circuit City (NYSE: CC) is the 2nd largest electronics retailer in the United States. . "Circuit City makes it Simple" (2005 Holiday Season). Clopidogrel, which is often prescribed under the brand name Plavix® (clopidogrel bisulfate; produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis), is a potent oral antiplatelet agent often used in the treatment of coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease. "Just What I Needed." (2004-Present).
. "We're with You." (2001-2004). New Engl J Med 352 (3), 238-244.

"Imagine That." (2001). Clopidogrel versus aspirin and esomeprazole to prevent recurrent ulcer bleeding. "Price, Selection, and Service.". Chan FKL, Ching JYL, Hung LCT, Wong VWS, Leung VKS, Kung NNS, et al (2005). "Where Service is State of the Art." (1949-1992?). Cerebral Hemorrhage (Incidence: 0.1 to 0.4%). Verge. Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (Incidence: 2.0%).

NexxTech. Hemorrhage - The incidence of hemorrhage may be increased by the co-administration of aspirin.

    . Liquid Video. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) (Incidence: 4/1,000,000 patients treated). ESA. Severe neutropenia (Incidence: 5/10,000). Centrios.