Company: BLZRW
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-080183
Chunk: 165

Company: Trailblazer Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 165
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 Spirit Halloween. Spencer’s, a specialty retailer founded in 1947, opened its first location in 1963. Today Spencer’s operates over 600 locations throughout the United States and Canada. Spirit is the leading Halloween retailer in North America. Spirit Halloween was originally founded in 1983 and acquired by Spencer’s in 1999. Since 2003 with approximately 160 locations, Spirit has experienced steady annual growth of approximately 50 stores, most recently opening 1,525 stores for the 2024 Halloween season. From 1992 to 2003, Mr. Silverstein joined Linens & Things, a New Jersey based retailer specializing in housewares and home decorative accessories. Among multiple other positions, Mr. Silverstein served as President from 2001 until 2003. He previously held leadership roles at Bloomingdales and Macy’s in New York City. Mr. Silverstein earned his BA from Cornell University and MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. We believe our management team has the skills and experience to identify, evaluate and consummate a business combination and is positioned to assist businesses we acquire. However, our management teams’ network and investing and operating experience do not guarantee a successful initial business combination. The members of our management team are not required to devote any significant amount of time to our business and are concurrently 106 involved with other businesses. There is no guarantee that our current officers and directors will continue in their respective roles, or in any other role, after our initial business combination, and their expertise may only be of benefit to us until our initial business combination is completed. Acquisition Criteria We have identified the following general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective targets. We will use these criteria and guidelines in evaluating acquisition opportunities, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business that does not meet these criteria and guidelines. Qualities we intend to look for in identifying SPAC merger companies include but are not limited to the following: We believe there are a considerable number of potential target businesses that can benefit from a public listing and access to liquid forms of capital to scale operations and generate substantial revenue and earnings growth. We intend to focus our target sourcing efforts on assessing companies that we believe would benefit significantly from being publicly traded. In addition to having strong corporate governance and a compelling equity story, we intend to acquire one or more businesses that have the following characteristics: • Large markets with favorable industry dynamics. We intend to actively look for suitable investment opportunities within the media and