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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.
Woodbury Common, Central Valley, NY

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Features
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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Retail Report
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.
to visit Skecher's website, click the logo:
skechers.com
Pac Sun store

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Marketing
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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e-Commerce
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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Global Outlets
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.
Berlin 2000 logo

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Off-Price PLUS
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.
Tom Stemberg

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Updated 6/1/00
Paul Pearson, VRN Production
Tampa Bay, Florida