Value Retail News is ICSC's publication featuring extensive and complete insight into the world of outlet and off-price retailers shopping centers. Here's a list of this month's articles and a summary of the stories.
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Cover story |
Top Centers |
Outlet retailers point to the centers that their best-performing stores tenanted in the last year. To no one’s surprise, REIT-owned centers accounted for the lion’s share of the top centers, but projects owned by independents took the first two rankings.
right: Chelsea GCA Realty’s Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, Central Valley, N.Y.
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Outlet Center Benchmarks
A 1999 study crystallizes industry issues and concludes that amenities, proper siting and plenty of discounted goods are key to success.
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Surfin’ the Outlet Wave
Pacific Sunwear’s young PacSun outlet chain is doing so well that the company is planning a healthy expansion over the next two years.
Skechers Steps Lively
The 8-year-old manufacturer of casual family footwear looks beyond its department store accounts to widen its stride.
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Center Branding
Most of the largest outlet-center developers brand their centers, but not everyone sees that it makes a difference to their business or to consumers.
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Internet Privacy
The issue of Internet privacy isn’t so much that companies can't find out consumers’ likes and dislikes, it’s that consumers want something in exchange.
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Berlin Conference
Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of Germany, told attendees of the 25th Annual ICSC-Europe Conference that the best thing to happen to the Continent was the implementation of the common currency.
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Q&A with Staples head
Tom Stemberg tells how continuing to cater to the needs of small businesses will fuel Staples growth in the Internet Age. |
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And each month...
- Off-Price & Outlet Briefs:
Developers, Projects, Retailers and People in the news
- Outlet Perspectives:
Award-winning feature where industry professionals comment on industry issues
- Monthly Same-Store Outlet Chain Sales Index
- ICSC Events Calendar
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