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ABG’S Chief Spinmeister

I thought I was done with my recent assessment of Authentic Brands Group licensing model as well as their SPARC deal with Simon Properties. I ...
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Washington Prime: From Mall Poster Child to Bankruptcy

In some ways, this week’s Chapter XI filing by shopping center REIT Washington Prime Group seemed preordained.  However, it’s instructional to recall that at the ...
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The Buy Now, Pay Later Disruptors

With news that both Melbourne, Australia-based Afterpay and Minneapolis native Sezzle are planning IPOs on U.S. stock exchanges in the months ahead, joining San Francisco-based ...
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Amazon/MGM – Not What You Think

Over the past decade I’ve been blathering on about this being the distribution century, meaning that consumers and retailers, both armed with technology, would drive ...
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Macy’s Off-Price Gambit Is the Only Way Forward

In recent weeks, Macy’s has resumed expanding its Backstage off-price chain, following a pause while the department store giant fought through the worst of the ...
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Inflation Worries? Not a Chance!

I feel safe aligning my economic view with that of Janet Yellen, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, ...
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NRF Holiday Forecast at Risk

For the last 25 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has kicked off the holiday shopping season in early October with its forecast for holiday ...
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Beauty’s Shifting M&A Landscape

As a beauty journalist who came of age in the 1990s, I was shocked and a little sad to see that Perricone MD, a proto ...
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