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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Design Fever |
Many outlet-store chains are rolling out store prototypes that reflect new merchandising initiatives. VRN takes a look at some of the new store designs, including those of outlet chains operated by Etienne Aigner, Carter’s and Rue 21.
Right: Detail of Etienne Aigner outlet-store prototype by Visconti Design Assocs., based in Oakland N.J. |
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Filling the Slot
Outlet retailers use a variety of hiring strategies to fill employment vacancies, from doing it themselves to using headhunters.
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Shopping Center Alliance
Developers will be able to lower costs and increase efficiencies for themselves, their tenants and their shoppers through a new alliance.
Tanger Rides
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Tanger Factory Outlet Centers teams up with AAA to give members special discounts.
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Outlet Biggies
Thirty-one outlet projects make VRN’s Y2K Largest Centers list. These projects account for only 11 percent of the industry’s 286 outlet centers, but 30 percent of its GLA.
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Bauer Boom |
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Eighty years after being founded, Eddie Bauer continues to be on a roll, including its growing outlet division.
Pictured left, Eddie Bauer Outlet at Craig Realty’s Woodburn (Ore.) Company Stores. |
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B5 Pioneers
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The race to open Germany’s first new-construction outlet center ended in May when Morrison Outlets completed B5 Designer Outlet Centre just outside Berlin.
Left: Morrison Development's B5 Designer Outlet Centre at Elstal near Berlin, Germany
Below: Shoppers at B5 admire the fashions available at the InWear Outlet Shop. |
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Children’s Place Growth Spurt
The Children’s Place (above) is growing up fast, using several new strategies to continue its expansion, including a new dual-store concept and the creation of an Internet presence.
Tax Breaker
A planned center in New England successfully wins many tax incentives, but a moratorium on sales tax is up in the air. |
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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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