We Know Retail Weekly Report 5/25

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We Know Retail Weekly Report – 5/25

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Featured National News 

MPZ - MallShopping center pros optimistic about 2012. The shopping center industry is seeing more available credit and more capital flow, but those looking for a boom should temper their expectations.

A Monster Real Estate Paradigm Shift Demands A New Direction for Capital. Click here to read more.

REFILE – Expanding or not, U.S. retailers rethink stores. U.S. retailers believe there is life left in their brick-and-mortar stores and they’re trying new ways of making them more inviting by pampering customers.

 

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MPZ - ODOTThe restaurant scene in Louisville’s Ret-Hot NuLu. Click here to find out what’s exciting and what’s DOA.

ODOT’s rest stops could yield millions of dollars if developed, state says. The Ohio Department of Transportation wants to earn millions of dollars by turning no-frills rest stops along U.S. and state routes into vibrant service plazas.

The Banks having $92M impact. Residents, diners and contractors at The Banks development on Cincinnati’s riverfront soon may pump $91.6 million a year into the local economy, a new report shows.

Lexington brew pubs faring well. Three brew pubs have opened in Lexington over the past year, and at least two more are headed for the Central Kentucky city.

 

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We Know Retail Weekly Report 5/18

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We Know Retail Weekly Report – 5/18

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Featured National News 

Anybody who is anybody will be there. ICSC is expected to draw 31,000 to Las Vegas.

Colliers International retail report highlights upbeat first quarter, consumer confidence.

Fast-casual restaurants continue to be the overall growing sector of the restaurant industry. Read about what sets these models apart from the rest of the pack.

 

 Featured Local News

Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant is set to open in Columbus on May 21st. Want a sneak peak inside? 

The Columbus Chamber of Commerce says there are signs that malls are ready to make a turnaround. Read up on what signs are fueling this theory.

Lexington has a new gourmet grocer – Trader Joe’s is opening its first Lexington location on June 29th.

 

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COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL RETAIL REPORT HIGHLIGHTS UPBEAT FIRST QUARTER, CONSUMER CONFIDENCE

Discounters, Restaurants, and Auto Parts
Rank Among the Top Vertical Markets for Retailers

The U.S. retail real estate industry, boosted by higher consumer spending, experienced a better-than-expected first quarter in 2012, according to a new nine-page report just published by Colliers International’s Retail Services Group. Colliers International released its Spring 2012 United States Retail Highlights report, which looks closely at industry trends and a series of retail market performance indicators such as vacancies, net absorption, construction, and rental rates.

Key Findings

Colliers’ key takeaways from the report include:

  • Technology Trends: Retailers are allocating additional capital expenditure dollars to technology upgrades expected to improve omnichannel integration, better automate merchandise assortment planning, and enhance the interactive aspects of both the online and in-store experience.
  • Consumer Confidence: Consumer spending has increased but may not be sustainable until personal after-tax incomes increase.
  • Top-Performing Categories: According to the Colliers Retailer Report Card, discounters, restaurants, and auto parts retailers currently rank the highest in overall performance for the first quarter of 2012.
  • 2012 Predictions: Six of the nine predictions that Colliers International made at the beginning of 2012 are playing out as expected. Among them: continuing growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector is driving the economy; retailers are offering more exclusive, limited edition products and promotions to generate excitement and revenue; and high-profile acquisitions, such as last week’s Bed Bath & Beyond offer to Cost Plus, are on the rise as companies flush with capital seek out higher-yield investment opportunities.

In the report, Ann Natunewicz, National Manager of Retail Research for Colliers International’s Retail Services Group, and author of the report, explains: “Definitive signs of a self-sustaining recovery continue to elude us . . . but we remain cautiously optimistic that retail performance in 2012 will exceed the muted expectations predicted for the year.”

“The 2012 retail industry has benefitted from a combination of pent-up demand that has spurred consumer spending, a slight easing in underwriting standards that has begun to move lending, and historically low interest rates that have attracted investment capital from yield-seeking investors,” said Natunewicz.

Additional data and insights are available in a complete PDF version of the nine-page report at http://www.colliers.com/content/Colliers_US_Retail_Report_Q12012.pdf.

For more information about Colliers International, visit us at Booth #S243 R Street at the upcoming ICSC Annual RECon Convention in Las Vegas, May 20-22.

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We Know Retail Weekly Report 5/11

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Featured National News 

Retail sales weren’t in line with what analysts predicted, but that isn’t necessarily a reason for concern. April sales fall short of predictions.

Think all McDonald’s are the same? Think again. Check out the new McDonald’s in Las Vegas.

Hostess Brands Inc. sent potential layoff notice to its 18,000 employees. The Twinkie maker is currently under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

 

 Featured Local News

What’s great about being in the middle? Read about the Midwest’s growth lessons for America. 

Take a peak inside of the new Horseshoe Casino in Cleveland. Also a good indication of what the casino in Cincinnati could look like when completed.

The Yard House restaurant is the latest retailer to sign on at The Banks.

The nation’s largest specialty golf retailer, Golfsmith, has opened in Cleveland.

 

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We Know Retail Weekly Report 5/9

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We Know Retail Weekly Report – 5/9

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Featured National News

CoStar completed its acquisition of LoopNet this week. Read more about the transaction here.

PF Chang’s announced it’s going private in a $1.1 billion deal with Centerbridge Partners. 

 

 Featured Local News

Earth Fare organic grocer is opening its first store in Columbus. Just one year ago, it was a strictly Southern chain, read about its growth here.

Menards is the latest anchor to join the Cuyahoga Falls retail center with an expected 8 to 12 additional tenants coming soon.

Dayton, Ohio boasts two restaurant chains that are among the top 50 fast casual restaurants in the country. Read more to find out which two.

 

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April Retail Sales Report

                                            April Retail Sales | May 3, 2012

 

HIGHLIGHTS

  • This morning ICSC reported that April Chain Store Sales comps moved higher by a mere 0.6%. Following last month’s 4.1% increase, both the trade organization and industry analysts cautioned that warm weather and the early Easter had moved consumer spending forward, and warned that April numbers would be weaker.
  • Most of the retailers reporting monthly turned in lower-than-expected results. Exceptions included Zumiez (+10.1%), notching its fifth consecutive month of double-digit comp growth; TJX Cos. (+6.0%), with all divisions consistently meeting or exceeding expectations each week of the month; and Ross (+7.0%), which guided first quarter earnings guidance higher. Nordstrom (+7.0%) got a boost from South and Midwest stores and sell-throughs of both handbags and women’s/men’s shoes. Saks (+2.0%) announced that it will be opening two new full-line stores in 2014: one in Sarasota, Florida and one in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Macy’s (1.2%) and Target (+1.3%) each missed April estimates but remained on track
    for the quarter. In a surprise move, Target upped the ante in the battle with Amazon by
    announcing yesterday that it will no longer sell Kindle readers. The decision, described by Target management to rectify a “conflict of interest”, is believed to be part of the fight against sales lost to online channels by customers who first price-check within a brick-and-mortar store.
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (+9.2%) led companies reporting quarterly last month as it exceeded expectations on both revenues and earnings per share. McDonald’s (+8.9%) grew as it expanded its healthy breakfast offerings. CVS notched same-store-sales up 8.4% with new customers that had previously been part of Walgreens’ Express Scripts network lifting pharmacy comps (+9.8%). Starbucks (+8.0%) reaffirmed its international expansion plans – 1,000 net new stores in 2012 – as its European division was the only one to comp negative. P.F. Chang’s (-0.6%) and its sister chain Pei Wei (-1.7%) both improved as the company simultaneously announced that Centerbridge Partners will pay a 30% premium to take it private later this year. In the Grocery sector, Whole Foods (+9.5%) delivered another stellar quarter while Safeway (1.6%) increased its 2012 guidance and Supervalu (-1.9%) continued its focus on pricing and expanding its private labels.
  • On April 14, Best Buy announced the 50 locations it will close later this year, most of them by mid-May. California (7), metro Chicago (6), and its home market of Minneapolis (6) accounted for nearly 40% of the list. Overall, many of the stores are relatively new – fewer than five years old – but located in markets hit disproportionately hard by the housing crisis.  Also, even though the company is targeting many of its 45,000-square-foot boxes (which represent around one-half of its U.S. portfolio) for downsizing, its 30,000-sf prototype accounted for a significant number of closures.
    • Lennar Corporation and its subsidiary Rialto Capital Management gave the entire CMBS market some good news in early April when they put out the first issuance of non-performing commercial real estate loans in more than 10 years. Established as a liquidating trust, the $132 million deal will be over-collateralized to cover any future losses with the objective to dispose of the assets before bond interest and deal fees deplete its reserves. It is being held up as an example of innovation in strategy for dealing with nonperforming loans:  good news as the industry works to process the $17.3 billion in CMBS scheduled to mature in 2012 (retail assets make up about 20% of that total).
    • Texas and Nevada became the newest states to reach sales tax agreements with Amazon.com. In Texas, Amazon agreed to spend $200 million over four years to expand its operations as the state plans to begin charging tax on July 1st. Nevada’s deal allows the retailer to begin collecting tax in 2014. These announcements bring the number of Amazon-tax states up to seven.
    • Retail executives surveyed last month by the ICSC demonstrated higher levels of optimism in both their assessment of current conditions and future expectations. The Shopping Center Executive Business Barometer (SCE) registered 57.9%, up 1.4% from last month and staying above the 50% neutral threshold since last fall. More than two-thirds of panelists (68.4%) were confident that occupancy rates would continue to improve; sales (62.1%) and customer traffic (58.9%) followed. Respondents remain positive, but somewhat less so, about rent spreads (58.1%) and cap rates (55.2%).
MONTHLY

April-12

March-12

Dep’t   Stores Bon-Ton Stores Inc./The

(5.0)

(0.1)

Macy’s Inc

1.2

7.3

Nordstrom, Inc.

7.1

8.6

    Nordstrom (Full   & Direct)

7.0

9.3

    Rack Stores

7.3

7.3

Saks, Inc.

2.0

6.3

Discount Costco (U.S., with/excl. fuel)

4.0 / 4.0

6.0 / 5.0

Kohl’s Corp.

(3.5)

3.6

Ross Stores, Inc.

7.0

10.0

TJX Cos Inc.

6.0

10.0

    HomeGoods

8.0

6.0

    Marmaxx

5.0

10.0

    TJX   Canada

4.0

8.0

Target Corporation

1.1

7.3

Stein Mart Inc.

(1.6)

(0.3)

Specialty   Apparel American Apparel (incl/excl.   online)

10.0/6.0

21.0/20.0

Buckle Inc./The

1.0

6.4

GAP Inc./The

(2.0)

8.0

    Banana Republic   (N. America)

1.0

5.0

    GAP International

(6.0)

2.0

    GAP (N. America)

4.0

9.0

    Old Navy (N.   America)

(6.0)

11.0

Limited Brands, Inc.

6.0

8.0

    Bath & Body   Works

4.0

6.0

    La Senza

(5.0)

1.0

    Victoria’s Secret

8.0

10.0

Stage Stores Inc.

(1.0)

4.7

Wet Seal Inc./The

(9.6)

(7.8)

    Arden B

(12.1)

(8.6)

    Wet Seal

(9.1)

(7.6)

Zumiez Inc.

10.1

14.1

Drug Rite Aid

2.9

3.6

    Front end

2.7

4.6

    Pharmacy

3.0

2.6

Walgreens

(3.7)

(6.8)

    Front end

(2.2)

1.2

    Pharmacy

(7.8)

(11.1)

 

Category

Company

Y-o-Y Chg in SSS (%)

Y-o-Y Chg in SSS (%)

QUARTERLY

Most Recent* Qtr

Previous Qtr

Drug CVS

8.4

2.5

    Front end

5.3

0.1

    Pharmacy

9.8

3.6

Auto AutoZone (U.S.)

5.9

4.6

Pep Boys

0.8

(0.4)

Discount 99 ¢ Only

8.5

6.7

Big Lots (U.S.)

3.4

1.7

Cost Plus

7.6

4.0

DSW

5.6

5.2

Dollar General

6.5

6.3

Dollar Tree

7.3

4.8

Family Dollar

4.5

4.1

Tuesday Morning

(3.2)

(4.6)

Sam’s Club (U.S., excl. fuel)

5.4

5.7

Wal-Mart (U.S.)

1.5

1.3

Grocery Kroger (excl. fuel)

4.9

5.0

Safeway (total/excl. fuel)

1.6/flat

6.2/1.5

SuperValu

(1.9)

(2.9)

Winn-Dixie

2.5

3.3

Whole Foods

9.5

8.7

Home Bed Bath & Beyond

6.8

4.1

Home Depot (U.S.)

6.1

3.8

Lowe’s

3.4

0.7

Pier 1

10.3

7.0

Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

7.0

7.3

Hobby Barnes & Noble

2.8

(0.6)

Best Buy (U.S.)

(2.4)

0.9

Cabela’s

4.2

1.7

GameStop (global)

(3.6)

(0.6)

Office Depot (N. America)

(5.0)

(2.0)

OfficeMax

0.2

(4.3)

PetSmart

5.5

6.1

Staples (N. America)

2.0

(1.0)

QSR /   Restaurant BJ’s Restaurants

3.3

5.1

Bob Evans (total)

0.1

(2.7)

Brinker Int’l (company-owned)

3.8

1.7

Buffalo Wild Wings (company-owned)

9.2

8.9

Burger King Holdings (U.S./Canada)

(2.0)

flat

Cheesecake Factory

2.6

2.7

Grand Lux Café

0.3

1.9

Chipotle

12.7

11.1

Darden Restaurants (Basic/Specialty)

4.1 / 5.8

1.8 / 3.9

    Bahama Breeze

5.9

0.5

    Capital   Grille

5.7

5.7

    Longhorn Steakhouse

6.7

6.0

    Olive Garden

2.0

(2.5)

    Red Lobster

6.0

6.8

    Seasons 52

6.1

Denny’s (system-wide)

1.6

0.9

DineEquity
    Applebee’s (U.S.)

1.2

1.0

    IHOP (U.S.)

(0.5)

(1.0)

Domino’s (U.S.)

6.8

3.0

Dunkin Brands (U.S.)

7.4

5.6

Einstein Noah

1.2

1.0

Jack in the Box (system-wide)

3.6

3.1

Kona Grill, Inc.

7.8

10.6

Krispy Kreme

8.3

4.0

McDonald’s Corp. (U.S.)

8.9

7.1

O’Charley’s, Inc.

1.1

(0.9)

OSI Restaurant Partners
    Bonefish   Grill

5.9

7.4

    Carrabba’s

3.5

6.3

    Fleming’s

0.3

10.1

    Outback Steakhouse

3.6

5.6

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc.
    P.F. Chang’s

(0.6)

(2.4)

    Pei Wei

(1.7)

(1.9)

Panera Bread

5.9

6.0

Qdoba

3.8

3.7

Ruby Tuesday, Inc.

(5.0)

(4.2)

Ruth’s Hospitality Group
    Ruth’s Chris

7.7

2.6

    Mitchell’s   Fish Market

0.4

(0.7)

Starbucks (Americas)

8.0

9.0

Yum! Brands (U.S.)

1.0

(3.0)

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Comp sales in BOLD have   been updated within the past month.
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We Know Retail Weekly Report 4/27

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We Know Retail Weekly Report – 4/27

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Featured National

U.S. retail sales are on the rise for the third straight month, but will this trend continue? Read the analysisin The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch. 

Small retailers are still facing economic tests and must adapt to consumer needs, according to the Omaha World Herald.

Positive absorption contributes to ongoing recovery of commercial real estate. Read the analysis in Balancing Act: Lack of New Commercial Space Overcomes Softening Demand. 

 

 Featured Local

A coffee shop in East Walnut Hills has become the ”living room of the community.” Read about the shop’s transformation in the article Coffee Shop Builds Community. 

Kenwood Towne Place may be sold at auction, a “prominent example of a troubled commercial real estate project.”

Cleveland waterfront project looks to 2nd phase, according to The Plain Dealer.

 

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