Category Archives: Retailers

#LetsGoShopping this Father’s Day

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Sometimes Dad needs a little help upgrading his look. Join the #LetsGoShopping campaign and see how you can help dad find what he’s looking for this Father’s Day.

There are endless reasons why 92.5% of sales still happen in-store.
Join the movement and find what you’re looking for. #LetsGoShopping

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Going Global: ICSC ReCon Takeaways Retailers Should Consider

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What does it take for a retailer to be successful when expanding globally? At ICSC RECon today, Holly Cohen, Vice President of Global DTC Real Estate and Store Construction for Nike Inc., Karen Janes, Senior Vice President of Global Real Estate for Ralph Lauren, Michael Chu’di Ejekam, Chief Executive Officer of Atreos in Lagos, Nigeria and David Zoba, Chairman of JLL’s Global Leasing Board shared their insights.

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Luxury Retailers Broaden Horizons to Target Urban U.S. Meccas

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The global luxury market continues to outpace expectations. Luxury spending exceeded €1 trillion last year largely driven by personal luxury good purchases. Americans were the second-largest group of luxury buyers behind the Chinese, making up nearly a quarter of the global luxury spend worldwide. But as Karl Lagerfeld famously said, “keep the best, forget the rest” and today’s luxury retailers are doing just that by selectively targeting 11 major U.S. cities… Read More

Geno Coradini Re-joins JLL as EVP of Retail Integrated Portfolio Services

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Companies of all sizes, and increasingly retailers, are implementing integrated portfolio management solutions to make smarter real estate decisions and solve their business challenges. To better support retailers with their real estate portfolios, JLL today announced that it has welcomed back Geno Coradini to the firm as Executive Vice President, Retail Integrated Portfolio Services (IPS) Lead, where he will be responsible for working with our retail tenant representative brokers nationally to… Read More

JLL Adds Retail Tenant Representation Duo in Atlanta

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Sarah and Logan ComboJLL today announced the firm has hired Sarah Williams as a Senior Vice President and Logan Elder as a Senior Associate to grow the firm’s Southeast Retail practice. The addition of Williams and Elder is part of JLL’s strategic growth initiative to build a national retail brokerage business and… Read More

Supermarket Sweep Part 2: Convenience, Price & Experience

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This blog post is a continuation of  Supermarket Sweep Part I: Grocers Compete, Retail Real Estate Wins. In order to carve out market share in the slowly growing industry, grocery sellers will have to fight tooth and nail in order to prevail in each arena: convenience, price and experience.

1. CONVENIENCE: Make it easy to buy

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Supermarket Sweep Part I: Grocers Compete, Retail Real Estate Wins

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Do you remember the game show Supermarket Sweep? In it, teams of shoppers would race through the grocery aisles competing to fill their carts with the most expensive items within a time limit. The show turned what many considered a dull weekly chore into a race against time. Back when Supermarket Sweep first aired in the sixties and later when it was revived in the early nineties, the weekly shopping trip… Read More

Q&A with JLL’s Bob Gibson: 5 Reasons Why NYC is a Global Retail Mecca

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NYC1) Tourists Love the Big Apple: A record 56.4 million people descended upon New York City in 2014, a 23% increase from only five years prior. And when tourists visit, they shop and spend money—that crowd generated a record $61.3 billion in overall economic impact. The City’s lofty goal: to attract 67 million annual visitors by 2021.

2) Everything Old is New Again: Worldwide… Read More

JLL Expands Retail Practice in Washington D.C. with Broker Duo

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JLL continues the strategic expansion of its national Retail Brokerage services with the hiring of experts Thomas Jackman and Andy Corno in Washington, D.C. Jackman and Corno join the firm as Vice Presidents with more than 20 years of combined experience. The two will work in concert with and complement JLL’s Mid-Atlantic tenant representation experts Greg Ferrante and Arris Noble, who have served the market’s retail needs for nearly a decade,… Read More

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Retail Space

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Retailing USAThe U.S. market has six times more retail square feet per person that the United Kingdom, with 2,375 square feet per 100 inhabitants. That’s more space than France, Denmark, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany combined, making it an increasingly attractive locale for European retailers that have reached… Read More