More Cheap Chic Fashion Lands in Dallas

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

Texas mixed-use, open-air center welcomes its catchment’s first F21 Red, Forever 21’s aggressively priced concept store.

The Shops at Park Lane has beaten its competitors in getting the first F21 Red store in Dallas. It’s a good catch for a center that sells consumers on what it calls smart luxury. The 19,603sq.ft. two-level Forever 21 concept store opened recen[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Greenstone Gets First Hamleys in South Africa

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

Shopping center rolled out the red carpet to welcome the famed UK toy emporium during a VIP-studded launch event.

If you were browsing around the halls of Greenstone Shopping Centre on August 20, you probably would have thought that the circus had just come to town. The Jeppe Boys bag pipe band and its Grand Master, flanked by The Transformers, Kung Fu Pand[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Retailers Get Average Interim Sales Report Card

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

Multi-channel offering and added value, beyond low prices, are what will draw shoppers, survey shows.

School bells won’t ring for another few weeks in the United States, but the first retail spending report card has already been issued and the results are not stellar. According to Brand Keys, households with children entering preschool through[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Behold the Supermarket of the Future

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

Pop-up coupons that are beamed down to shoppers’ smartphones as they walk through a store are among forthcoming innovations.

The 2015 World Expo opened in Milan in early May with a focus on food and the global advancement of food technology. Its theme: "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.” One of the six-month event’s features is a supermarket of the future as im[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Manchester Arndale Lays Out Its Retail Plan

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

X-Factor star Rylan Clark added a touch of glam to event that was meant to inform retailers and get them on board to support the UK center’s yearlong marketing and PR program.

Manchester Arndale pulled out all the stops to increase its chances of packing the house at its recent event. The UK shopping center brought in celebrity presenter Rylan Clark of X-Factor fame to act as emcee. His task wasn’t to woo shoppers, [...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

A Timely Plan

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

Malls are watching their vacancy rates like hawks these days to ensure that the numbers don’t drop below the magic 80% mark. But with so many struggling in-line tenants bailing out, malls are forced to revisit every aspect of their leasing tactics and come up with new formats, lease terms, and arrangements to book those empty spaces and generate the revenue they need to survive.

Shopping center marketers and leasing managers are watching their vacancy rates like hawks these days, working together to ensure that the numbers don't drop below the magic 80% mark. But with so many struggling in-line tenants bailing out, thes[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Vietnam’s Changing Retail Scene

Development News, Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

From shophouses to shopping malls: a look at Vietnam’s changing retail scene.

While Asia's emerging mega-markets of China and India have been a focus of attention of global retailers for a number of years, Vietnam's rapid economic development, strong demographics and recent World Trade Organization (WTO) accession are now[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

Out of this World

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

To entice merchants to attend an upcoming meeting, Santa Rosa Plaza delivered small boxes with treats inside to store managers.

Like many marketing directors, Lisa Shulman needed an eye-catching incentive to entice tenants to attend an upcoming merchants association meeting at Santa Rosa Plaza in Santa Rosa, California. It was imperative that a majority of stores attend [...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...

This is . . . Brainbusters!

Retailer Roundup, Shopping Center Business

Attempting to lighten up the annual merchants’ meeting, Baybrook Mall introduced a Jeopardy-style game show designed to test the merchants’ knowledge. The merchants had fun—those who didn’t attend requested another session.

Marketing Director Beth Maniero at Baybrook Mall in Friendswood, Texas, was looking to lighten up the annual merchants' meeting. "I wanted a fun and comfortable way to get information to the merchants so they didn't feel we were cramming it d[...] Tactics Subscribers Read More...