Strategy

Analysis: Coach and Kate Spade brands must remain distinct
The past couple of years have been busy ones for Coach. The company has undertaken a turnaround of its main brand, successfully bringing back a premium edge to what had become a ubiquitous and devalued name. Coach has also integrated the Stuart Weitzman business by both extracting operating efficiencies and creating new sales opportunities.
Coach snags rival in $2.4 billion acquisition
Coach has acquired a brand with a strong following among millennials. The luxury handbag company on Monday announced that it will acquire Kate Spade & Company for $18.50 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 9% to Kate Spade's closing price on Friday. The deal, which has a total transaction value of $2.4 billion, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017 and add to adjusted earnings in fiscal 2018.

Specialty retailer exploring long-term capital restructuring

Nine West Holdings is taking action to deal with its debt.
PREIT issues State of Repositioning report

There was a time, not long ago, when mall owners crowed about their Sears, Macy’s and J.C. Penneys. Now, one has issued a chronicle of its systematic decommissioning of department store anchors. That owner is PREIT, and CEO Joe Coradino claims his company was ahead of the curve in the decline of some of the biggest names in retail.
Global Retail: Classifying workers as employees vs. independent contractors
Quarterly reports paint a vibrant picture for physical retail

Current media reporting on the state of physical retail is mostly doom and gloom. But analysts at real estate research company CoStar listened in on the latest wave of Q1 earnings calls and discovered a generally bullish attitude for brick-and-mortar retail among developers. “I just think the [negative] narrative is a way ahead of itself," a CoStar report quoted Simon Properties CEO David Simon as saying.
Merger talks between luxury department store companies hit a snag

Is Neiman Marcus about to be involved in a lawsuit as opposed to a merger?
Retail real estate’s wunderkind buys another center

Four more and he’ll match his age. Twenty-four-year old Joel J. Gorjian, a VP at Great Neck, New York-based Namdar Realty Group, has made his 20th retail center purchase in the past 12 months, this time a mall in suburban Chicago.
Coming soon: The Walmart Dash button?

Amazon’s signature Dash button may be getting some competition from a rival very soon. A patent filing by Walmart reveals that the retail giant could be developing an Internet of Things-based device that tracks how shoppers use products in their homes and then electronically reorders merchandise.
Online giant launches grocery service in Germany

AmazonFresh is expanding its breadth in one of its biggest markets outside the United States.

Analysis: Coach and Kate Spade brands must remain distinct

Coach snags rival in $2.4 billion acquisition

Specialty retailer exploring long-term capital restructuring

PREIT issues State of Repositioning report

Global Retail: Classifying workers as employees vs. independent contractors

Quarterly reports paint a vibrant picture for physical retail

Merger talks between luxury department store companies hit a snag

Retail real estate’s wunderkind buys another center

Coming soon: The Walmart Dash button?

Online giant launches grocery service in Germany