By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Janine Phakdeetham, and Claire Boston Express Inc., the clothing retailer that’s a staple in US malls, filed for bankruptcy with plans to sell itself. The company received an offer from brand manager WHP Global and mall landlords Simon Property Group Inc. and Brookfield Properties to purchase the company’s operations and most of its stores, according to a statement on Monday. […]
Bed Bath & Beyond locations across America will soon be replaced by Burlington Stores outposts and a range of other businesses, after the failed home goods retailer auctioned off its leases as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, court records show. The doomed big-box store selected bidders for 109 of its leases after a Monday auction. Off-price giant Burlington agreed […]
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN In the 1980s, a new type of specialty retail chain started to emerge: “category killers.” The stores’ powerhouse business model was aimed at giving shoppers access to every different size, style and color of a product imaginable – all in one place and at reduced prices. Category killers, which began to dominate […]
Daphne Howland Senior Reporter Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Founded in 1971, Bed Bath & Beyond is one of the original “category killers” — retailers that took advantage of department stores’ declining appeal to establish specialty stores offering discount prices. The home goods company went public in 1992 and its revenues surpassed $1 billion by 1999, per its court […]
It has been a brutal half-decade for retail owners amid record-breaking retailer bankruptcies and a pandemic that brought in-person shopping to a temporary halt. But the fundamentals of retail real estate are looking better now that at any point in over a decade, according to a new report. Retail availability nationwide is at its lowest […]
In the past week, two Massachusetts based clean energy firms declared bankruptcy. On Wednesday, clean energy firm Satcon Technology Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The firm, which specializes in the production of conversion equipment utilities for solar panels, defaulted on $16 million dollar loan from Silicon Valley Bank and Compass Horizon Funding Company LLC […]
