The Mall is Dead, Long Live the Mall
Mar 3, 2005
This week the retail real estate business faces a new reality: The proposed $17 billion (including debt) Federated/May merger, following the $11.6 billion deal to combine Kmart and Sears, makes it clear that 40 years of conventional wisdom is under revision. This, of course, isn't the first inkling -- the changes in retailing that have made department stores so vulnerable have been obvious for at least a decade. But it is still a stunning moment. ...
MERGERS MAY MAUL MALLS
Feb 1, 2005, David Bodamer
It didn't take long for the pending, $11.8 billion Kmart/Sears merger to spawn a sequel. As the numbers rolled in from the lackluster holiday shopping...
Moving eBay Offline And Into The Center
Jan 1, 2005, Renee DeGross
Since eBay mushroomed into a retailing phenomenon in the late 1990s, a cottage industry has emerged of middlemen trying to make money on the auction site,...
2004 It SIZZLED For Some - It FIZZLED For Others
Dec 1, 2004
Big weddings and honeymoons in Vegas made the headlines in 2004. People splurged on luxury items (a $10 million zeppelin from Neiman Marcus?) but were...
HOME DEPOT FITS RIGHT IN
Oct 1, 2004, Bob Hirschfeld
In many ways, Home Depot's New York City store is a far cry from the orange warehouses that dot every suburb. The retailer has coated the old cast iron...
OLDER WOMEN COME INTO STYLE
Oct 1, 2004, Pamela Black
Are retailers abandoning an overcrowded teen market for a more sophisticated, older woman? Wachovia Securities retail analyst Joseph Teklits thinks so....
Gap Creates New Store for Older Women
Sep 15, 2004
First, it was Sarah Jessica Parker as Gap's new poster girl. Now, Gap Inc. is trying to win over Baby Boomer women with style at affordable prices. The company announced today it is developing a new chain of specialty apparel stores geared toward women over 35. Gap said it would build 10 new brand stores in two locations by late 2005 ...
Does AMC Deal Signal A Turnaround For Movie Theaters?
Jul 28, 2004
Another blockbuster deal shows that theater chains are working their way out of a screen glut -- and that bodes well for retail property owners banking on movies to draw traffic into their properties. AMC Entertainment Inc., the second-largest U.S. theater chain, will go private. Equity firm J.P. Morgan and AMC's majority owner, Apollo Management, are buying the chain for $2 billion ...
CHINESE CHECKERS
Jul 1, 2004
It's now or never for retailers seeking to cash in on the growing middle class in China, which is currently 300 million people strong. China retail sales...
