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  • Wheeler appoints new COO and CFO

    Virginia Beach, Va. -- Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust announced Wilkes Graham will join the company as its CFO, effective Jan. 19. Graham will oversee corporate finance, accounting, investor relations and capital and financing strategies for the Company and will report to CEO and chairman, Jon Wheeler. He will succeed Steven Belote, who will remain with the Company as its COO.

  • ICSC: Omnichannel wins, with physical stores at epicenter

    A just-released holiday survey reinforces the dominance of the omnichannel shopper.

    Nearly one-third (32%) of shoppers the past holiday season used the click and collect method – with 69% of these shoppers purchasing additional items in the store when they went to pick up the item and 36% making another purchase in an adjacent store, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers’ Holiday Consumer Purchasing Trends study.

  • American Apparel gets $300 million bid from group supporting Charney

    American Apparel on Monday said that it has received unanimous approval of all voting classes for its reorganization plan. But also on Monday, the company received a $300 million buyout offer from an investor group that has the support of American Apparel founder and ousted CEO, the controversial Dov Charney.

    The investor group, which is comprised of Hagen Capital Group and Silver Creek Capital Partners, said that its offer is superior to the company's reorganization plan, and has a valuation range of $180 million to $270 million.

  • EDSS expands into Mexico

    Energy Design Service Systems (EDSS) has opened a new office in Mexico, representing the culmination of the company’s year-long efforts to expand its market reach internationally and increase exports to Mexico.

    EDSS welcomes its new sales representative Yennise Garza, who brings more than a decade of experience in sales and market research to the EDSS team. With Garza’s help, EDSS expects to participate in Mexico’s increasing efforts to reduce the country’s energy consumption to meet their ambitious carbon reduction goals.

  • Tech Bytes: Evaluating IT Vendors: Three Lessons from the Dotcom Crash

    For millennials it’s little more than legend, but the dotcom crash of the early 2000s was a very real event for any retail IT professionals of the Gen X or Baby Boomer demographics.

    As retailers prepare to kick off the technology conference/user group season with the upcoming NRF “Big Show,” it might be a good idea to review a few lessons from that era about how to properly evaluate vendors and solutions.

    A Shaky Investment

  • The Container Store can't contain expenses in Q3

    The Container Store is cutting its guidance for the year after the company says expenses led it to report a loss in the third quarter.

  • A good Christmas for Five Below

    Five Below says its same-store sales rose 4.1% during the holiday season, prompting the company to boost its guidance for the fourth quarter.

    The company announced that net sales for the nine-week period ended Jan. 2 increased by 24% to $286.1 million from $230.7 million in the comparable nine-week period of fiscal 2014, while same-store sales for this period increased by 4.1% over the comparable period in fiscal 2014.

  • Mall operator reaches out to shoppers

    Mall operator General Growth Properties (GGP) is looking to get in touch with customers in a new and very personal way.

    GGP has selected Mobiquity to be the provider of beacon-based advertising services for select malls in its U.S. portfolio, including Tysons Galleria (Washington D.C.), Glendale Galleria (Los Angeles), Water Tower Place (Chicago) and Ala Moana Center (Honolulu).

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