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Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Sears targets familiar rival with connected home products

    Struggling Sears Holdings Corp. may be aiming its new line of connected home appliances and tools directly at rival department store chain J.C. Penney.  

  • Good news for J.C. Penney

    J.C. Penney announced a positive development on the financial front.   The department store retailer announced it has successfully completed refinancing its $2.25 billion five-year senior secured term loans, which should generate about $24 million in interest expense savings.  

  • Amazon inches closer to the top in another category

    Watch out Best Buy, the nation’s largest ecommerce retailer is on your tail.   According to a report by barrons.com, Amazon has moved ahead of Walmart to take the number two spot, behind Best Buy, as the nation’s largest electronics retailer.    

  • Brooklyn goes Euro: King’s Plaza redo features Primark and Zara

    Primark, one of Europe’s largest apparel retailers, will anchor a complete redevelopment of Macerich’s Kings Plaza in Brooklyn. It will be joined by Spain-based Zara, which the New York Times has called the world’s largest fashion retailer. The Sears store at Kings Plaza will close for renovation in September.  

  • Home goods retailer falls short in Q1

    Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s  first quarter profit  declined amid flat sales and  increased expenses that cut into its bottom-line.   The company’s profit fell to $122.6 million from $158.5 million in the year-ago period, less than analysts had expected.   Sales remained flat year-over-year at $2.74 billion, also below estimates. Same-store sales decreased 0.5%. 

  • Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren to step down

    Macy’s longtime CEO, Terry Lundgren, will step down in the first quarter of 2017, to be succeeded by a company veteran.    Lundgren, who has been CEO of the department store giant since 2003,  is stepping down as the retailer finds itself challenged with a transformed retail landscape and changing consumer demands.  He will be succeeded by Jeff Gennette, 55, who was named president of Macy’s in 2014 after serving as chief merchandising office since 2009. 

  • Decision to close stores becomes more complicated for retailers

    Some things are easier said than done. And increasingly, that notion applies to closing stores.   Although analysts and investors say that retail companies need to continue to shrink their store portfolios, the decision to do has become increasingly complex for merchants, many of whom have already shed their most unprofitable locations, according to a CNBC report.  

  • Michael Glimcher steps down from the company founded by his father

    WP Glimcher announced that CEO and vice chairman Michael Glimcher has resigned from the REIT founded by his father, Herbert. Board member Louis Conforti was named interim CEO at the company slated to be rebranded as the Washington Prime Group.   Several other senior leadership changes were announced, including the replacement of Mark Ordan as board chairman with Robert J. Laikin, who had been the board’s lead independent director. Ordan stays on as a director.  
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