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Cash America is a chain of Fort
Worth pawn shops with over 460 stores.
The largest pawn shop chain in the world, Cash America is
expanding, trying to reach those along the Mexican border with their
business. The company is like
any other pawn shop, offering short-term loans in exchange for valuable
collateral that they can turn around and sell in the storefront should the
borrower default on the paycheck loan.
Why would Cash America be
interested in the border business? Most
people in Mexico do not have checking accounts and regularly do business
with Fort Worth pawn shops and other paycheck loan providers, taking out
short-term loans and purchasing from the stock within the pawn shop.
It is an everyday occurrence to deal with a pawn shop for most
Mexican citizens. Business
from the Mexican market is sure to increase profitability for the company
by leaps and bounds.
Currently, Fort Worth pawn shops
are taking advantage of the short-term loan business in Mexico (based out
of Arlington, a suburb of Fort Worth), and they have been extremely
profitable for their efforts. Though
Cash America claims to have no plans to expand its Forth Worth pawn shops
and follow its competitor into Mexico due to differences in regulation,
the company does wish to prosper from border business.
With constant border traffic, Cash America is sure to make money
from short-term loans requested by border citizens.
The short-term loan business has proven quite
profitable, and as the largest pawn shop in the world, Cash America has
seen the financial benefits of its Fort Worth pawn shops and their
businesses in other cities, with shares up by more than 120% in 2003 alone
(during a three-year economic slump in the U.S .).
The market is not slowing now, even with improved economic reports
in the United States, and is, in fact, still growing, with the addition of
paycheck loans increasing profitability margins over simple short-term
loans. Cash America is sure
to continue growth, building new stores and entering new markets with
their paycheck loans services.
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