Department stores' uneven decline
Apr 1, 2001, Michael Fickes
The decline of department stores has affected virtually every store name in the market in recent years. As noted in a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers,...
HOT TOPIC: Doom to boom?
Apr 1, 2001, Michael Fickes
"Many department stores are doomed," says R. Fulton Macdonald, president and CEO of International Business Development Inc., a New York-based consulting...
RETAIL REPORT
Apr 1, 2001, businesswire.com
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Kmart names new president and COO
Mar 16, 2001, Misty Milioto
Troy, Mich. – Locally based Kmart Corp. named Mark S. Schwartz as president and COO of the company, effective immediately. Schwartz joined Kmart in September...
HOT TOPIC: So long percentage rents?
Mar 1, 2001, Michael Fickes
Last year, retail industry leaders detected a potential crack in traditional lease structures that combine fixed and percentage rents. In interviews with...
RETAIL REPORT: Sales figures of major retailers
Mar 1, 2001
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Federated converting Stern’s division to Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s
Feb 9, 2001, Misty Milioto
Cincinnati – Locally based Federated Department Stores Inc. plans to close and convert a majority of its Paramus, N.J.-based Stern’s department stores...
HOT TOPIC: Bogged down
Feb 1, 2001, Rob Johnson
New wetlands regulations can affect your developments. Find out what you need to know to protect yourself....
HOT TOPIC: How will Wards' demise affect the industry?
Feb 1, 2001, Steve Webb
Chicago - Montgomery Ward's decision to close all 250 of its stores may have been a gloomy way to ring in the New Year, but retail analysts and owners...
2001 industry forecast
Dec 1, 2000, SHOPPING CENTER WORLD STAFF
Leaders in retail real estate cautiously predict an optimistic future.The past year in retail real estate brought more than its share of surprises - movie...
Federated Department Stores
Oct 1, 2000, SHOPPING CENTER WORLD STAFF
Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores, Inc. announced that David L. Nichols, former chairman and CEO of Mercantile Stores, will become president...
The State of the Industry
Aug 1, 2000, Allyson H. Sicard
Buying and selling properties has always played a major role in the shopping center industry, but the velocity of these multimillion-dollar transactions...
The State of the Industry
Aug 1, 2000, Brannon Boswell
The results of Shopping Center World's 15th annual ranking of the Top 50 Shopping Center Managers are in, and it seems the big are still getting bigger....
The State of the Industry
Aug 1, 2000, Brannon Boswell
Though the lending game remains the same in 2000, many of the players have changed. SCW's third annual ranking of the Top Retail Lenders is proof enough.Whether...
The State of the Industry
Aug 1, 2000, Martin Sinderman
The latest Shopping Center World survey shows that while some leading retail contractors are struggling with challenges, others are reaping the benefits...
Are You Experienced?
May 1, 2000, Steve McGowan
Welcome to the Experience Economy. The traditional retail design philosophy has changed. It's no longer about an architect, a designer and a client. Today's...
Experience Retail
Jan 1, 2000, Vicki Phillips
SCW: The mix of entertainment and retail: a passing fad?Paul Jacob: First, let's define what we mean by the mixture of entertainment and retail. I think...
21 Voices of the 21st century
Dec 1, 1999, SHOPPING CENTER WORLD STAFF
DOES THE YEAR 2000 signal the end of the 20th century or the beginning of the 21st century? We'll let the purists argue that one; in the meantime, we've...
ICSC Mulls Tech Trends, Global Markets
Nov 1, 1999, Vicki Phillips
Like the surprise snow that fell on Denver during ICSC's recent Fall Management & Marketing Conference, technology topics unexpectedly blanketed the proceedings....
1999 ICSC Convention Reflections
Jul 1, 1999, SHOPPING CENTER WORLD STAFF
On Feb. 24-27, 1958, 122 people met in New York for the first ICSC convention. The 29,289 attendees at this year's convention engaged in more activities,...
1999 ICSC Convention Reflections
Jul 1, 1999, SHOPPING CENTER WORLD STAFF
Another ICSC Spring Convention has come and gone. Each spring the convention blows in like a sand storm, speeds everything up and blows out again. After...
Better Days On The Horizon
Feb 1, 1999, Helene Berlin
Gary J. Skoien saw the handwriting on the mall, so to speak. As CEO of the newly launched Horizon Group Properties (HGP), Skoien knew strategic changes...
1999 Industry Forecast
Dec 1, 1998, Matt Valley
Ever-evolving but always resilient, the shopping center industry finds itself facing several challenges as the sun begins to set on the millennium: the...
Retailers Cast Holiday Predictions
Nov 1, 1998, Vicki Phillips
Perhaps reacting to the retail industry's softening sales in August, respondents to Shopping Center World's fourth annual holiday forecast are not quite...
Growing Proffitt's
May 1, 1998, Alison Gillespie
Less than two years ago, Proffitt's chairman and CEO Brad Martin said he hoped to grow his retail enterprise to $3 billion by the end of the decade.But...
