Retail

CiCi’s Pizza Announces Hiring of New Director of Real Estate Services and Support

Industry veteran to secure agreements with multi-unit franchise partners, developers COPPELL, Texas, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — CiCi’s Pizza, home of the $4.99 endless pizza, pasta, salad and dessert buffet, announces today the addition of Deb Chappell as Director of Real Estate Services and Support. A 25-year veteran, Chappell led expansion efforts for big names […]

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Growth In Internet Sales May Impact On Leasing And Development, But Others See It As Another Challenge To Be Overcome

By Murray Shor At first glance, the fact that internet sales are booming should have a crushing impact on future dealmaking, already staggered by record-setting vacancies and lackluster leasing and development. This is despite the fact that many soothsayers are seeing signs on the horizon of improvement across-the-board– and they expect positive holidays sales due […]

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McLane lands Yum distribution deal for Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut

Unified Foodservice Purchasing Co-op LLC, the exclusive purchasing agent for Yum! Brands Inc., has signed a distribution deal that makes Temple, Texas-based McLane Foodservice Inc. the exclusive provider of products to Yum’s A&W, KFC, Long John Silver’s, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Louisville-based Yum (NYSE: YUM) is […]

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Is Starbucks pondering Peet’s purchase?

Starbucks Corp. isn’t saying whether Peet’s Coffee & Tea is a potential acquisition target, but there’s no doubt the Seattle-based coffee giant is interested in “buying large and small companies” to grow its consumer products business. As Reuters reported, CEO Howard Schultz said exactly that at an investor conference Wednesday in New York. And there’s […]

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Some Very Creative Economic Fix-Its

We are not going to shop our way out of this mess. It’s a cheerless truth about the post-Thanksgiving start of the Christmas season, traditionally the bell lap in America’s year-long steeplechase of buying. There has been a rebound in consumption since the grimmest days of the Great Recession, but that has not been joined […]

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Growth slow leading into Black Friday

The tides may have turned since the depths of the Great Recession, but shopping hasn’t rebounded back entirely, according to a year-over-year spending analysis released Wednesday by Intuit Inc. Mountain View-based Intuit’s (NASDAQ:INTU) online personal finance service, Mint.com, examined the same group of retailers it did last year to see how American spending is changing. […]

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YoCream to be sold for $103 million

Just five years ago, YoCream International Inc. was a $20 million company that was too reliant upon one customer. Nearly 75 percent of the Portland-based frozen dessert company’s sales came from selling softserve to Costco stores. “We knew that if we didn’t grow it, we would lose them,” said Terry Lusetti, YoCream’s director of investor […]

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