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Ceres, a Boston-based coalition of investors, environmental groups and public-interest organizations that works with companies to address sustainability challenges, announced last month that it had filed a record 54 global-warming shareholder resolutions with dozens of U.S.

With a volatile stock market, tightening credit and a cautious consumer, a casual observer could think that the good times are over for developing lifestyle centers.

All the world’s a stage, but few American retailers chose to be in the audience at the second annual World Retail Congress in Barcelona last month. Among the 1,100 delegates from around the world, only some 80 held U.S.

The 2.3 million-sq.-ft. retail entertainment extravaganza in East Rutherford, N.J.—Meadowlands Xanadu—has partnered with Pepsi to add yet another entertainment element to the complex.

Whole Foods Market in Glastonbury, Conn., is one of the first supermarkets in the nation to generate a substantial amount of its power on-site with an ultra-clean fuel cell, from UTC Power, South Windsor, Conn.The 46,000-sq.-ft.

To keep a stronghold in the Middle East, Olayan Food Services Co.

The fast-growing specialty-apparel brand Mango has opened its first U.S. airport store, at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The 1,150-sq.-ft. MNG by Mango—the banner under which the Barcelona-based Mango operates its U.S.