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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
Reveling In Their Independence
Although real estate investment trusts (REITs) continue to dominate the outlet-center development industry, many of the nation’s outlet projects not owned by REITs are thriving despite intense competition. In the first of a two-part series, VRN checks in with a group of non-REIT centers of varying ages and ownership to see how they are performing.

Pictured at right:
VF Outlet Village, Reading, Pennsylvania
VF Outlet, Reading PA

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Features
Outlet-chain parents go Chapter 11
Warnaco, Casual Male, and Lechters – each with extensive store operations in outlet centers – file for bankruptcy protection. But none of the recent Chapter 11 announcements include a rash of store closings.
Retail Report
Remington Stores Prove Popular
With average sales psf of $550, Remington outlet stores typically outperform their fellow tenants. But the chain is taking a conservative approach to future expansion, opting instead to allocate capital on store remodeling and product development.
Remington Outlet Store

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Research
Data Collection Process diagram
Reducing Retail Banking Expenses
New technologies such as XML can help outlet retailers looking to better manage and reduce their stores’ banking expenses.

Study: Shoppers Want Sharper Pricing
New research confirms it: the economic downturn is changing shopping habits. Half the respondents in a new survey say they're doing more comparison shopping and placing far more emphasis on price than before. The most important factors after price were selection and customer service.

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Global Outlets
European Outlet Veteran Moves On
Byrne Murphy, one of the first developers to establish outlet centers in Europe, takes a job in the telecommunications industry, but not before reflecting on the struggles developers faced in the 1990s when the concept was new on the continent.

Serravalle Outlet Centre, Italy
The Design Dilemma
American architect Don Chapman says designing an outlet center in Europe is much the same as it is in the United States, but maddeningly different, too.

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