| Atlanta firm to build retail at Ross Bridge
Daniel Corp.'s co-developer in a $2 billion project in Atlanta's Midtown Mile recently bought 16 acres across from Hoover's Ross Bridge neighborhood to build a shopping center. Atlanta-based Selig Enterprises Inc. recently purchased the land across the street from Ross Bridge's commercial Village Center for $3.5 million with the intention of developing a shopping center. The company plans to build two outparcels, which would include a drug store, a bank and a grocery-anchored center, all totaling 80,000 square feet, said Bob Riddle, executive vice president at Selig. Riddle said Selig is "talking" with grocery and drug stores and a bank, but declined to reveal which ones and how soon leases would be signed. .
DSF Office announces participation in World Travel Market 2007
The involvement is part of the efforts to highlight the upcoming DSF 2008 and promote the festival as one among the world's leading shopping and family entertainment events to a wider global audience. Dubai Shopping Festival 2008, being staged for the thirteenth time, will commence on January 24 and run till February 24. An exclusive DSF stand will also feature at the exhibition enabling visitors to find out the upcoming attractions of DSF 2008. The DSF delegation to London will comprise of Laila Suhail, Chief Strategy Officer of DSF; Khulood Al Thani, DSF Marketing Manager; and Haitham Al Bousaide, DSF Media Relations Coordinator. Laila Suhail said, 'Dubai Shopping Festival is one of the finest shopping and family entertainment festivals in the world today and World Travel Market 2007 provides us with the ideal platform to communicate the characteristics of DSF to key travel and tourism industry players.' 'Our involvement with one of the leading exhibitions that attracted over 45,000 participants last year signifies our desire to align ourselves with the best industry resources and work towards attracting a higher number of visitors to experience one of the finest events in the world today.' World Travel Market is a business to business exhibition that was initiated to bring together the world's various destinations on to one platform.
Mobile Shopping, Coupons Winning at DEMO
This morning I kept busy rating the first batch of demos presented here. Well, the second session of demos is just about to start. Before they did, we took a break to walk the DEMO "demo" floor, where all the companies that get just six minutes to show off their wares try and pigeonhole reporters to tack on another 10 minutes or so of face-to-face product explaining. One thing I did just learn is that the nifty Leapfrog Tag actually uses a grid of microdots spaced just .3 millimeters apart on each specially printed book to do its magic. Those dots give the pen's infrared camera exact coordinates that tell it which audio bit to pull from its on-board memory (and for which of the five books it has stored). Such a cool product. Well, let's see if the second session is as fascinating. Chris is back.
Online coupon clipper offers shoppers choice
Neal Rapoport sees no reason to trek out into the cold in the wee hours of the morning to find the best holiday shopping deals in the name of Black Friday. Especially since the best deals in town can be as close as your computer.Rapoport is president of Dealtaker.com, a free, online bargain hunting service that collects store flyers, online coupons and links to the best deals on the Internet."A lot of Black Friday items are online," Rapoport said. "They're even cheaper if you have a coupon on top of it."Throw in free shipping codes, and there's no reason to leave the house."With gas prices so high, the cost to drive to the store is as much or more than shipping," he saidOnline shopping is nothing new. It was one of the early drivers behind consumer adoption of the Internet. Then privacy concerns caused people to step back into the store.
Redcats USA posts moderate growth in 2007 web sales
Redcats USA is reporting a moderate increase in web sales for 2007. The company, No. 28 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, grew web sales by 11% to $801 million in 2007 from $720 million in 2006. Redcats USA is a business unit of PPR SA, a Paris retail conglomerate with interests in Puma, Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci. For the year, Redcats in the U.S. and overseas grew its total revenue to $5.6 billion, an increase of 1.8% from revenue of $5.5 billion in 2006, PPR says. The groups leading brands -- La Redoute, Sportsmans Guide and the plus-size division in the U.S. -- posted solid sales performances, says PPR. Online sales were up 19%, accounting for 46% of Redcats Groups fourth-quarter revenues. In September Redcats USA also added market share by acquiring United Retail Group Inc., parent of womens plus-size retail chain Avenue and e-commerce site Avenue.com, for $198.9 million in cash.
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