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Byline: Kirk Pinho An area that is home to a constellation of Asian businesses is welcoming more -- to a perhaps unexpected location. Oakland Mall at John R and 14 [...]

How many times since 1897 -- when Detroiter William Metzger opened the country's first new-car showroom to sell Waverley electrics -- has the future of auto retailing been called into [...]

MedMen Enterprises has revised a previously announced agreement to sell a portion of its real estate assets. According to a media release, MedMen previously announced that it would sell three [...]

Under Armour has selected flexReceipts, a provider of smart, dynamic ereceipts for retail brands. flexReceipts will power the digital receipts across Under Armour's retail locations in North America. According to [...]

What are retail shopping center developers up to in the vibrant northeastern region of the United States? All across the Northeast--in which we include Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey [...]

HB Holt & Sons moves everything including the kitchen sink, which is why company MD Eddie Holt will be the first to admit that earning a wage as a haulier [...]

Who says malls are just for traditional retail? 2009 is rapidly becoming the year of the mall shake-up, as landlords give non-traditional tenants their shot at in-mall glory. The strategy [...]

Altro supplied its Terrazzolite flooring for the Glasgow branch of supermarket chain Morrisons. The store was fitted with 3,500sq m of Terrazzolite EP resin flooring, described as a lightweight, seamless [...]

Aptos reported TUMI, a travel brand, has selected the Aptos Enterprise Order Management solution to enhance its omni-channel operations and offer shoppers 'endless aisle' inventory visibility and flexible fulfillment options. [...]

project: Blanc de Chine New York Flagship client: Kin Yeung, Blanc De Chine location: New York designer: S. Russell Groves Sensuality, functionality, simplicity, serenity, subtlety, purity, harmony, and comfort are [...]

The overwhelming popularity of the extreme makeovers conducted on reality television shows these days inspired us to revisit The Gourmet Retailer's own makeover project, which began more than five years [...]

Roger Corbett, Woolworth's chief executive has started a new advertising campaign to promote the company's products. The initiative is Woolworth's answer to Coles Myer's petrol deals. The competition between the two food and liquors retailers and the strategies being adopted by Woolworth are discussed.

In the past 10 years the duty-free cosmetics sector has come into its own. More businesswomen are travelling than ever before, and nowadays the duty-free shopper is not just looking [...]

Newspapers are often sold through stores via consignment arrangements, which involve vendor (publisher) managed inventory and revenue sharing. Since retailers are not required to actually return unsold copies, it is said that some of them occasionally under-report sales. That hurts the publisher on the short run and could also interfere with his rational stocking decisions as these are based, to some extent, on previous sales reports. We construct a discounted dynamic framework for the retailer's optimal reporting as a function of the publisher's delivery--response function to these reports, and a similar average-cost model. It turns out the optimal report does not depend on actual sales. We then show that the publisher's resulting delivery response function is the same as it would be in an integrated system. Thus the retailer's untruthful behavior actually causes the system to behave optimally. Had the retailer been verifiably truthful, the system would not be coordinated. Keywords: Inventory control; Consignment; Verification; Dynamic programming

Every year as franchise executives prepare to renew their franchise registrations, they should be reevaluating their franchise agreements and other standard business agreements to determine what changes should be made [...]

This article describes the tensions between manufacturers and retailers over the use of the Internet for sales. At issue is the practice of manufacturers selling directly to the public on the Internet.

The following retailers Montgomery Ward, CompUSA, Dayton Hudson Corp., Ames Department Stores and art dealer Galleries Lafayette have contracted their data center management and other management information systems needs to IBM Global Services and Acxiom Corp. They are reaping the economic advantages of outsourcing, while the executives are free to focus on electronic commerce.

Victoria's Retail Tenancies Reform Act 1998 created new regulations for retail tenancies. The law changed regulations regarding lease applications, disclosure obligations, rent reviews, auditing reporting, lease renewals and asignments, and compensation provisions. The changes were intended to standardize conduct for retail tenancies.

An overview of the percentage lease, the standard type of retail-space lease is presented. The percentage lease developed after World War II, as new shopping centers, hoping to attract tenant stores, devised a lease that would initially keep rents low, while allowing them to participate in stores' growth. The nine major percentage-rent variations are discussed.

Exclusive clauses should be drafted carefully by landlords. A 'record store' is a type of retailer that continues to change as the media it sells continues to change and its exclusive clauses also continue to change. Merchandise restrictions in exclusive clauses can cause difficulties for all retailers and their landlords.

The Australian federal government announced several proposals regarding retail tenancy in its Sep 30, 1997 Fair Trading Inquiry Report. Attempting to balance competing interests, the government indicated it would take a leading role in developing a safety net for small retailers, who face inconsistencies under state and territorial laws. The proposals include prohibiting unconscionable conduct in business transactions, nationally consistent tenancy law, and a federal, state, and territorial council to help reform retail tenancy law.

Almost all leases for stores in large shopping centers include percentage-rent provisions, under which rental amounts owed are based at least in part on tenant income. Most percentage-rent leases specify a fixed minimum rent, however. Basic information on shopping center percentage leases is presented.

At Bausch & Lomb, salespeople spend six months in a rigorous training program learning the ins and outs of selling eyecare products -- including selling competitors' brands to retailers. At [...]

The Little Rock-area retail scene continues rebounding, evidenced anecdotally and statistically. Changes during the past 12 months reflect positive activity in the Pulaski County retail market, as recorded by the [...]

To an HVAC contractor, there is a lot of gratification in keeping customers away from the big box retail stores who offer competing products and services. Something as simple as [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even in times of economic malaise, the public loves a reason to celebrate, and the opening of a new shopping center generates enthusiasm throughout a market. This was [...]

Negotiating a lease is one of the inevitable unpleasantries with which every retail business owner will have to deal at least once. The retail leases that are most common in [...]