Hammerson is a major British property development and investment company which owns a portfolio of retail property assets in the UK and France. The portfolio, which is valued at £5.5 billion, includes 20 prime shopping centers, 22 convenient retail parks and investments in nine premium designer outlets.
Office Depot is a global supplier of office products and services, which was incorporated in Delaware in 1986. Its products can be classified into three categories: supplies, technology, furniture and other. In 2012, the percentage of each category of products it has sold, was of 65.5% for the supplies, 20.9% for the technology and 13.6% for furniture and other related products. The result in sales for 2012 was of $10.7 billion, which represented a decrease of 7% from the prior year.
How does one of the world’s largest retailers, with over 530,000 employees serving millions of customers a week, manage to keep the pace with the performance?
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comScore, one of the leading companies offering comprehensive digital marketing intelligence and measurement services, has released this month the 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review, presenting the key digital media trends of the year 2010, as well as their possible implications for the year 2011. The research focuses on areas such as e-commerce, social networking, online marketing, video and mobile markets, highlighting aspects such as media consumption behavior, consumer trends in digital media, new and emerging digital technologies.
Urbis, a Melbourne based real-estate consulting company has released Urbis Retail Averages 2010, this year’s edition of the annual survey of shopping center performance the company has been producing since 1992 . Conducted in cooperation with the Shopping Centre Council of Australia and using the Counci’s sales reporting standards, the study provides key results and analysis of the sector for both regional and sub-regional centers. 59 regional and 167 sub-regional shopping centers submitted data for this year’s edition.