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  • Aeropostale: Not dead yet

    Aeropostale may still live to see another day thanks to a last-minute bid.   In a development that no one saw coming, a consortium of landlords, liquidators and others joined together to make a $243.3 million offer to save 229 Aeropostale stores, Fortune reported. The group includes General Group Properties, Simon Property Group, Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, Hilco Merchant Resources, and Authentic Brands Group.  
  • Chico’s Q2 tops Street; cuts 200 jobs in corporate streamlining

    Chico’s FAS reported better-than-expected second quarter earnings and announced new cost-saving measures. It also said the president of its namesake brand is stepping down.  
  • David’s Bridal CEO steps down; replaced by former Gap head

    Photo: Paul Pressler   The CEO of David's Bridal is out after three years on the job.    The specialty retailer said Pam Wallack has left the company, but gave no reason for her departure, the Associated Press reported. Wallack will be replaced by David’s Bridal chairman and former Gap Inc. head Paul Pressler, who once worked with her at Gap.          
  • Branch buys its first Alabama centers

    Branch Properties, which owns 24 retail centers and restaurant parks in the Southeast, made its first foray into Alabama with the purchase of two Birmingham properties from Bayer and a silent partner.   The Atlanta-based Branch gets Inverness Corners, a 236,444-sq.-ft. center anchored by Winn-Dixie and Kohl’s, and Inverness Plaza a 74,818-sq.-ft property that houses Alabama’s only PGA Super Store. The deal was brokered by JLL.  
  • Chain Store Age debuts SPECS ‘Ambassadors Club’

    Chain Store Age unveils its first-ever SPECS/2017 Ambassadors Club, created to recognize 12 retailers who have made significant contributions to the industry and to SPECS, the annual Retail Event for Store Innovation. Produced by CSA, SPECS is attended by retail and food-service executives involved in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of stores and restaurants nationwide.    
  • Footwear retailer beats Street in Q2; identifies cost savings

    DSW Inc. on Tuesday posted better-than-expected results for its second quarter and reaffirmed its full-year outlook.    The company also said it expects to see $25 million of annualized savings in 2017 as a result of a restructuring program it launched earlier this year, with about $7 million of the total to be realized this year. The retailer said the savings would result “from organization realignment and improvements in procurement and other business processes.”  
  • David’s Bridal future-proofs in-store network

    In effort to protect its organization from potential data breaches and prepare for the delivery of new omnichannel services, David’s Bridal is modernizing its failover network.   
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