Cherrywood Capital Group Acquires Gilded Life
The shareholders of Kennon Green Enterprises, through investment company Cherrywood Capital Group, have acquired a substantial equity stake in digital publisher Gilded Life, a producer of original content in the luxury lifestyle, product and service niche.
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Don't Romanticize Sales
The great tragedy of most investors is that they focus on revenue to the exclusion of two financial metrics that are more important: 1.) operating profit and 2.) return on non-leveraged equity. This common cognitive failure is responsible for many low returns suffered by business owners and capital managers, alike.
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Mount Olympus Awards Products Featured In Maxim Magazine
Mount Olympus Awards, a major holding of the Kennon Green Enterprises shareholders, was recently featured in Maxim Magazine. Its custom designed letterman sweaters and varsity letters were worn by Danica McKellar, who starred in "The Wonder Years" in an article about her life and career.
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Applied Value Investing
Kennon Green Enterprises uses an applied value investing approach to acquiring and managing assets. We focus on maximizing the total cash we receive from our investments and redeploying profits into the greenest risk-adjusted pastures available to us.
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Here Are Just a Handful of the Industries In Which We Have Significant Investments …
Through Mount Olympus Awards and MOA Team Supply, we are one of the world’s largest retailers and direct-to-school wholesalers of custom chenille awards, varsity letters, and varsity letterman jackets.
Our products have appeared in major motion pictures, on television, in magazines, and are worn by tens of thousands of students throughout the United States.
Kennon & Company is a luxury retail prototype store located north of Kansas City. Through it, and its online retail site, Kennon Home Accessories, we sell everything from cashmere scarves and diamond-tipped fountain pens to baby gifts and fine jewelry.
Through equity holdings in companies like Cherrywood Capital Group, we own assets such as Gilded Life, an online luxury destination. These properties generate streams of highly lucrative advertising and affiliate earnings. With very little overhead and high operating margins, these resources can be grown by tapping into the financial strength and expertise of the parent company’s management, which has extensive experience in building lucrative online destinations.
With the expertise of Joshua Kennon, the company’s founder and controlling shareholder, Kennon Green Enterprises has the flexibility to engage in a wide range of capital market trading activities involving stocks, bonds, ETFs, derivatives, options, commodities, and other securities, while focusing on the long-term. As “patient capital” not answering to Wall Street, we can focus on acquiring the most value for our money during times of once-in-a-lifetime opportunity like the Great Recession of 2008-2010.