Sentences with phrase «of retail owners»

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Soaring rents in the retail sector have prompted calls for a register of leases and a rebalance of power between landlords and store owners.

Jeff and Aimee Dougherty are the owners of JD Custom Displays, a custom retail display company in Fullerton, California.

Not content merely to own the local newspaper, the retail guru has become the owner of the largest home in DC.

The first, was Ean Murphy, the owner of Moxie Bookkeeping and the second was Jacob Wood, founder of Woodies, an online retailer that specializes in manufacturing made - to - order shirts for men.

Now would be a really good time for small business owners to think about the stress of working retail during the holidays and plan to appreciate their employees, similar to MyCorporation.com.

Shopping centre owner Centro Retail Australia is in discussions with investors regarding the sale of 50 per cent stakes in three of its shopping centres, including Morley's Galleria.

Retravision's largest franchise owner David Dorsett - Lynn is so confident of the electrical retailer's enduring brand strength in Western Australia - he is planning to back that faith with two new stores in the Perth metropolitan area.

John Gerzema of the advertising agency Young & Rubicam wonders if Starbucks is sandboxing a new back - end service similar to what Amazon.com provides to small online retailers: Independent coffee - shop owners could plug into Starbucks distribution network but still retain local credibility and control, and the «Bucks could expand its business without adding retail locations.

A: Many small - business owners get the heebie - jeebies just thinking about trying to sell their products to Wal - Mart, Home Depot, Whole Foods Market or other behemoths of the retail world.

L1 Retail will take control of the chain from its private equity owners Carlyle Group.

And that's good enough for Linda Heidinger, owner and founder of New York City's much - loved Alphabets, the tiny retailer that started out 30 years ago in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan.

Steve Klassen Current world extreme snowboarding champion and owner of Wave Rave, a snowboard retail store in Mammoth Lakes, Calif..

In my role as advisor to small businesses, I often hear first - hand the challenges and failures of retail store owners who fear the advantages of online and feel the exodus to Internet eCommerce, led by Amazon and Ebay.

At Super Suds Car Wash in Midlothian, Virginia, owner Jeremy Critton follows the example of retailers and package delivery services during the busy season.

Bitcoin is the biggest and most famous digital currency, but it's hardly the only one: There are hundreds of other so - called «alt coins» and now, in a significant development, the owners of these coins will be able to spend them at a major retailer.

Tod Wilson is the owner of Mr. Tod's Pie Factory, a wholesale and retail bakery with locations in Somerset and Englewood, N.J.. He's also the first person ever to win «Shark Tank,» and his life and business have both changed considerably in the more than four years since.

However, in the US, even if you have a chip and pin, you pretty much have to always sign for your card payment and because of this, a number of retailers or restaurants will ask for ID to make sure you are the owner of the card.

(Some retail landlords, particularly mall owners, stipulate a so - called percentage lease, or overage, whereby tenants pay a minimum rent plus a share of gross sales.)

«We're going to YouTube,» Musk said, referring to the owner of a channel on the video - streaming service who had lobbied the CEO ahead of time for the chance to ask questions on behalf of retail investors.

That's what makes a recent survey of small business owners and retail customers sort of confusing.

Atmospherics, or the study of physical retail spaces, is a field increasingly of interest as more and more marketers and small - business owners try to perfect their stores» «retail experiences.»

Yet for Jill Foucre, the owner and founder of Marcel's Culinary Experience, a cooking class, cookware and specialty food retailer in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a small business loan was just too taxing.

As a result, the concentration of women business owners in the retail and service sectors — and in traditional industries such as cosmetics, food, fashion, and personal care — is slowly changing.

One South Carolina furniture retailer holds an annual Vendor Appreciation Day, where representatives of the company's more than 30 vendors are offered breakfast, lunch, and cocktails, hourly door prizes, and jars of company owner Dana McQueen's popular homemade pepper jelly.

A group of investors, including Dippin» Dots ice cream owner Fischer Enterprises and chief executive of American retailer Camping World and CNBC host Marcus Lemonis are hoping to resurrect the bakery chain.

Once mall anchors like Macy's close, it could be difficult for owners to find tenants to replace them, said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail - consulting and investment - banking firm.

Twenty - seven percent of all small - business owners said they plan to pull back on spending, versus 19 percent in the retail trade, the lowest level of pullback among the five sectors for which there are enough respondents to split out sector - level results.

These small - business owners are also more likely than others to have web pages and Twitter accounts — both of which are useful tools for small businesses trying to attract and retain customers — and they are more likely to have Facebook pages for their businesses, which reveals more about the current climate for small - business retailers today.

Nearly a third (32 percent) of small - business owners in the retail trade industry say their business competes with Amazon for customers.

«There's an emotional thing when you get a pretty ominous - looking letter from the IRS, [saying] you might have done bad things,» Tom Reese, owner of a hearing - aid retailer in Tennessee, told the Journal.

York, Pennsylvania - based Bon - Ton, which traces its roots to 1854, had 23,000 employees and 256 stores across 23 states when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February with the hope of cutting debt and emerging from a brutal retail landscape under a new owner.

Brookfield Property's efforts to buy GGP have come as mall owners across the United States are struggling as a result of many retailers losing out to e-commerce firms such as Amazon.com.

Arthur Blank, PGA Tour Superstore owner, Home Depot founder and Atlanta Falcons owner, discusses the state of golf equipment retail as the PGA Tour Superstore chain continues to expand with new stores.

Brookfield Property, an owner and operator of office and retail properties, said last month the deal would allow it to grow, transform or reposition GGP's shopping centers.

The owner of women's clothing chains including Dressbarn and Lane Bryant, Ascena Retail (asna) grew sales nearly 46 % last year after it acquired Ann Taylor (and the affiliated Loft) early in fiscal 2016.

One example of this would be a retail company whose owners need capital to increase the number of company - owned stores, yet who don't wish to give up significant ownership in the company.

Beyond the identifier, which is a long list of numbers unique to every iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry, retailers do not receive any other personal information about the phone owner.

The move by Cadillac Fairview, owner of the Eaton Centre, to host the two high - end retailers prevents the popular tourist mall from becoming weighed down by stagnant brands.

Besides a slew of publicity, the two received expert guidance from seasoned Birmingham business owners, plus six months of free office and retail space.

As business owners, we pride ourselves on knowing what things cost and on never paying retail (unless, of course, we run out of toner cartridges in the middle of the afternoon before a big presentation).

While there are the science fiction - driven angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world of online retail.

But where the original owners of the latter two stores came from the discount retail world, the five brothers who founded Target came from high - end department stores.

And in its combination of novelty, technology, and customer pampering, Roosevelt Field embodies the strategy that has helped its owner, Simon Property Group spg, navigate retail's crisis to stay on top of the mall world.

«We wanted to run our store cooperatively, which suggested a partnership, but we were afraid of the liability risks we'd assume if we opted for a traditional partnership status,» says Carine Ullom, one of the owners of Simple Goods General Store, a Lawrence, Kans., retailer of environmentally safe products, which is set up as an LLC.

For many business owners, direct selling is the perfect way to grow a brand, far from the cluttered shelves of the retail marketplace.

So in late January, in a big vote of confidence, Richard Baker — the Bay's American billionaire owner — added authority over the fusty New York City — based retailer Lord & Taylor to Brooks's portfolio, expecting a similar turnaround there.

Through her travels to fund - raiser shows around the country, Keven Wilder, owner of Chiasso, a Chicago - based retailer - cataloger of upscale toys and desk items, has added the names of 25,000 qualified leads to her mailing list.

Small businesses take many forms — some operate out of the owner's living room, some out of an office or retail store, some are on the road.

Using case studies and months of research, Bob Phibbs, The Retail Doctor ®, takes an in - depth look at what makes up one of these deals, what the risks are to business owners and how you can revitalize your business after a Groupon disaster.

She was part - owner / manager of a startup retail bagel chain in Calgary while writing her MBA thesis entitled «Modeling ACD Data to Improve Computer Simulation of Call Centers».