Los Angeles, 2014-12-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) today announced that it has acquired CBRE | Oklahoma, a commercial real estate services firm that has served as CBRE’s affiliate in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in northwest Arkansas since 1999.
CBRE | Oklahoma is one of the region’s leading providers of leasing,…
Financial
• Third Quarter Net Income of $104.8 Million and Net Income per Diluted Share of $0.10, Compared to Prior Year's Third Quarter Net Income of $71.5 Million and Net Income per Diluted Share of $0.04
• Third Quarter Adjusted EBITDA of $332.8 Million Compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $282.3 Million in Prior Third Quarter
• Rite Aid Raises Fiscal 2015 Outlook
CAMP HILL, Pa., 2014-12-18…
Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 2014-12-18 — /EPR Retail News/ — The Carrefour group announces today that the Brazilian investment company Península, chaired by Abilio Diniz, is taking a 10% stake in its subsidiary in Brazil.
This transaction is a significant first step in the plan, previously announced by Carrefour group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Georges Plassat, to bring…
New technology and services, to be unveiled at NRF in New York, provide a seamless experience for shoppers and merchants
Paderborn, Germany, 2014-12-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — Wincor Nixdorf, a global leader in advanced retail and banking IT solutions, today provided an update to its storyline for the upcoming National Retail Federation (NRF) event in…
planfocus software and Wincor Nixdorf agree on global cooperation:
Paderborn, Germany, 2014-12-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — Wincor Nixdorf, one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions for retail banks and retailers, and planfocus software, a company specializing in software for optimizing the cash supply chain, are to enter into a strategic partnership. The partnership…
Zaandam, the Netherlands, 2014-12-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — Ahold has repurchased 1,501,600 Ahold common shares in the period from December 8, 2014 up to and including December 12, 2014.
The shares were repurchased at an average price of €14.3088 per share for a total consideration of € 21.49 million. These repurchases were made as part of the…
CALIFORNIA, 2014-12-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Blustery weather couldn’t keep customers and community members away from the afternoon ribbon cutting ceremony held in celebration of the newly renovated Palm Springs Albertsons/Sav-On Pharmacy on Dec. 3.
Surrounded by his department managers, Store Director Tim Hesting was elated to talk about his ‘new’ store, “It has been…
Los Angeles, CA, 2014-12-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) today announced that Standard & Poor’s Rating Services (S&P) has raised CBRE’s corporate rating to Investment Grade (BBB-), with a positive outlook.
This is the second time in six months that S&P has raised its rating of CBRE. S&P took its latest action under…
Real supplies Emmas Enkel stores
Significant acceleration of expansion in German city centres
Düsseldorf, Germany, 2014-12-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Emmas Enkel, an emerging corner store and online food retailer, has found a strong partner: METRO GROUP is a new shareholder in the Düsseldorf-based start-up company and now supports its business processes as well as the…
North Miami Beach, FL, 2014-12-11 — /EPR Retail News/ — Equity One, Inc. (NYSE: EQY), an owner, developer, and operator of shopping centers, announced today that it has closed a $600 million unsecured revolving credit facility which replaces its existing $575 million facility. The new facility, which matures on December 31, 2018, with options to extend the maturity…
Zaandam, the Netherlands, 2014-12-9 — /EPR Retail News/ — Ahold has repurchased 2,016,898 Ahold common shares in the period from December 1, 2014 up to and including December 5, 2014.
The shares were repurchased at an average price of €14.3085 per share for a total consideration of €28.86 million. These repurchases were made as part of the €500…
Cheshunt, England, 2014-12-9 — /EPR Retail News/ — In recent weeks we have implemented new policies and procedures which will govern our commercial income activities and taken actions to invest in and improve our customer offer.
In our interim results on 23 October we highlighted that full year profitability would be impacted by actions we may…
BRUSSELS, Belgium, 2014-12-9 — /EPR Retail News/ — Delhaize Group discloses the information with respect to the acquisition of treasury shares required under the article 207 of the Royal Decree of January 30, 2001 implementing the Belgian Companies Code.
Delhaize Group acquired the following number of shares in an off-exchange transaction pursuant to a share buy-back…
CHARLOTTE, NC, 2014-12-8 — /EPR Retail News/ — Belk, Inc., the nation’s largest family owned and operated fashion department store company, today announced operating results for its fiscal third quarter and nine months ended November 1, 2014.
Tim Belk, chairman and chief executive officer of Belk, Inc., said, “Third quarter sales were essentially flat, in line…
ASHEVILLE, N.C., 2014-12-8 — /EPR Retail News/ — Ingles Markets, Incorporated (NASDAQ: IMKTA) today reported record sales of $3.84 billion for fiscal 2014, its 50th consecutive year of sales growth. For the full fiscal years, net income rose to $51.4 million in 2014 compared with $20.8 million in 2013. Fiscal 2013 included a $26.2 million after tax…
SAN FRANCISCO, 2014-12-5 — /EPR Retail News/ — Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) today reported that November 2014 net sales increased 6 percent compared with last year. Net sales for the four-week period ended November 29, 2014 were $1.72 billion compared with net sales of $1.63 billion for the four-week period ended November 30, 2013.
“Old Navy delivered standout…
MANCHESTER, UK, 2014-12-5 — /EPR Retail News/ — The Co-operative Food today (Friday 5 December 2014) made an unequivocal £1.5billion three year commitment to support and celebrate British food.
The commitment comes as new consumer research shows that:
90% of shoppers want supermarkets to sell more food from British farms
81 percent of farmers believe retailers should support UK…
CAMP HILL, Pa., 2014-12-4 — /EPR Retail News/ — Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) today announced sales results for November.
Monthly Sales
For the five weeks ended Nov. 29, 2014, same store sales increased 5.1 percent over the prior-year period. November front-end same store sales increased 0.7 percent. Pharmacy same store sales, which included an approximate 232 basis points…
Nottingham, UK, 2014-12-4 — /EPR Retail News/ — Alliance Boots today announces that it has completed the acquisition of a 12% stake in Nanjing Pharmaceutical Company Limited.
The completion follows receipt of government and regulatory approvals. As a result of the investment, Alliance Boots becomes the second largest shareholder of the company with the right to nominate…
ASHEVILLE, N.C., 2014-12-2 — /EPR Retail News/ — Ingles Markets, Incorporated (NASDAQ: IMKTA) will provide an online, real-time webcast and rebroadcast of its fourth quarter earnings conference call on December 8, 2014. Ingles plans to release earnings for its fourth quarter ended September 27, 2014, on December 8, 2014.
The live broadcast of Ingles Markets’ quarterly conference call will be…
CAMP HILL, Pa., 2014-12-2 — /EPR Retail News/ — Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) said today that it will release financial results for its Fiscal 2015 Third Quarter, which ended Nov. 29, 2014, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The company will hold an analyst call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time with remarks by Rite Aid's…
Zaandam, the Netherlands, 2014-12-1 — /EPR Retail News/ — Ahold has repurchased 2,287,209 Ahold common shares in the period from November 24, 2014 up to and including November 28, 2014.
The shares were repurchased at an average price of €14.0989 per share for a total consideration of €32.25 million. These repurchases were made as part of the €500…
LONDON, 2014-11-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — John Lewis plc announces that it has today priced the issue of £300,000,000 4.25% bonds due 2034 (the “Bonds”) in the wholesale institutional bond markets.
The bonds are expected to be issued on 4 December and to be listed on the Official List and admitted to trading on the…
LONDON, 2014-11-28 — /EPR Retail News/ — The John Lewis Partnership announces that Loraine Woodhouse is to join the Board of John Lewis Partnership plc on 1 December 2014 as Acting Group Finance Director.
The Partnership announced on 17 November 2014 that Helen Weir, the Partnership's Finance Director, had tendered her resignation with a six month…
Fair Development Fund by Comic Relief and Sainsbury's is a unique partnership that combines Comic Relief's expertise in awarding grants with Sainsbury's 145 years of experience and knowledge in farming and food to help producers in developing countries thrive.
LONDON, 2014-11-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — This means that farmers and workers have a better chance…
Zaandam, the Netherlands, 2014-11-24 — /EPR Retail News/ — Ahold has repurchased 2,051,098 Ahold common shares in the period from November 17, 2014 up to and including November 21, 2014.
The shares were repurchased at an average price of € 13.9084 per share for a total consideration of € 28.53 million. These repurchases were made as part…
North Miami Beach, FL, 2014-11-20 — /EPR Retail News/ — Equity One, Inc. (NYSE: EQY), an owner, developer, and operator of shopping centers, announced today that it will release its 2014 fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 after the market close. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Equity One’s…
North Miami Beach, FL, 2014-11-20 — /EPR Retail News/ — Equity One, Inc. (NYSE:EQY), an owner, developer, and operator of shopping centers, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.22 per share of its common stock for the quarter ending December 31, 2014, payable on December 31, 2014 to stockholders…
Adjusted EPS of $0.54; GAAP EPS of $0.55
Third quarter Adjusted EPS of $0.54 was above the expected range of $0.40 to $0.50.
Third quarter U.S. Segment comparable sales growth of 1.2 percent was better than the expected range of flat to 1 percent. Comparable sales reflect third quarter digital sales growth of more than 30…
Amsterdam, 2014-11-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — X5 Retail Group N.V. (“X5” or the “Company”), a leading Russian food retailer (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), announced today that Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) has changed the Company’s outlook from stable to positive and affirmed X5’s long-term corporate rating at B+.
As stated in the rating agency’s press-release, “The rating actions reflect…