Category Archives: Retailers

Copa do Mundo and beyond: Brazilian retail surges

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Players from 32 countries are pouring into Brazil for a month-long contest of extraordinary soccer skill, known as the Copa do Mundo, the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Cheering them on will be an expected 3.7 million fans and tourists, adding an astonishing $3.3 billion USD ($6.7 billion Brazilian Real) to this nation’s economy. According to Brazil’s Ministry of Tourism, the average foreign visitor will attend four Copa do

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VIDEO: Livin’ Large: Luxury Retail Market

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Designer goods have always held a prominent place on the richest streets in America. On the Las Vegas strip at the ICSC conference, thousands of high street retailers are gathering to determine the best strategies to serve the shopping elite. Experts say now more than ever, luxury brands are including a mix of both physical and online presence.

 

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Phoenix Retail Market Goes From Bleak to Bright

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Excerpt by Ian Ritter, GlobeSt.com: Read the Full Story

When the recession was in full swing, one of the markets that took the biggest hit was Phoenix. Residential and commercial real estate were overbuilt in the market, and the retail sector became a casualty. That’s all changing now, as retailers are starting to expand into the market. Retail real estate vacancy rates in Phoenix are currently around 10.5% and expected to fall below 10% by the end of the… Read More

Ground-Up Retail? It’s Happening in Atlanta.

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Excerpt by Ian Ritter, GlobeSt.com: Read the Full Story

Atlanta_RRGThere isn’t a whole lot of new commercial real estate development taking place anywhere in the country, and the retail sector is no exception. However, the Atlanta area is proving to be the exception, and John Bemis, executive vice president and retail market lead in Atlanta and the Southeast for JLL shared that… Read More

Retail Not Left Behind in Texas’ Vibrant CRE Market

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Excerpt by Ian Ritter, GlobeSt.com: Read the Full Story

Dallas3_adambernhardtIt’s no secret that the commercial real estate industry in Texas has been on fire for some time now. The retail real estate sector has certainly not been left out in the cold, executives from JLL told us, focusing on the Dallas, Austin and San Antonio markets.

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Logistics Lag for Same-Day Delivery

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Widespread same-day delivery won’t be viable this year or next for most retailers. Why the delay?  Especially when topics like drone-delivery have become regular dinner table talk?

It all comes down to the logistics networks that currently support the majority of retailers. These systems, with few exceptions, were based on… Read More

Digital Storefronts in Physical Properties

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NEWSFLASH ICSC European Conference Update: The day started with keynote speaker, Alexander Von Schimeister, managing director for eBay in Turkey, explaining how eBay has evolved from initially working with private sellers to trade ‘collectable’ and unique items, to larger companies and brands. Today over 75% of the items that eBay sells are brand new, and eBay is working with retailers to market and sell their products to a wider customer base, without diluting the… Read More

Let’s Take This Offline: Retail’s Migration Back to Honest-to-Goodness Storefronts

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Fifteen years ago, online-only retailers didn’t exist but today there are more than 100,000 e-commerce retailers active in the United States, and while that number is set to double by 2020, bricks-and-mortar will remain a key driver to growth. Online-only sales strategies represent the ultimate in flexibility and cost-cutting, but the recent… Read More

You’ve got questions, who’s got answers…now that RadioShack’s closing 1000 stores?

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RadioShack’s Super Bowl Commercial The 80’s called…. They want their store back was a big hit, and may have been extremely prescient. But despite the headlines, the new store design promoted in the commercial is not counter to closing excess and underperforming stores— in fact it supports it, says JLL’s Michael Hirschfeld.

Shuttering storefronts is not revolutionary anymore, it’s evolutionary! In one fell swoop Radio Shack is changing how consumers perceive them, and

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