Irvine, Calif.-based MBK Real Estate promoted Gordon Adams from vice president to senior vice president and risk manager. Robert Brvenik is the new president of Baltimore-based Prime Retail. Brvenik most recently served as executive vice...
Wild Oats Market Inc. is taking root and ready to expand thanks to a recent $48 million stock offering. The natural foods grocer plans to open 58 new stores in the next three years...
Just about everything is new at San Francisco Music Box Co. — new owners, a new president and even a new store prototype — all part of a strategy to reclaim its position as “the defining musical giftware choice.” ...
The way to a shopper's purse may be through the stomach. Decades after mall developers created food courts to keep hungry shoppers from leaving, they are now counting on popular mid-priced chains to bring traffic to the mall. “They're a...
The West Coast’s most sought after retailers revealed some of their secrets during a panel discussion titled "The Retail Dream Team" Wednesday at ICSC’s 2002 Western Division Conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Opinions on topics such as secondary...
Paul Pressler, chairman of The Walt Disney Co.'s global theme park and resorts division for the past 15 years, has been named president and CEO of Gap Inc., effective immediately. He starts work on Monday, September 30...
Today’s retailers are confronting issues they have never had to face in the past, according to a panel of West Coast executives who have been active in retail development since the 1960s...
The nation’s second-largest home improvement chain and 14th-largest retailer said today it is adding 60 new stores in the greater New York City area over the next several years. The move is part of Lowe’s aggressive expansion into major metro...