Santa feeling stays with shoppers after Christmas
People hit the stores after Christmas to buy, indulging the rediscovered retail appetite that may have made 2010’s holiday shopping season the biggest ever.
People hit the stores after Christmas to buy, indulging the rediscovered retail appetite that may have made 2010’s holiday shopping season the biggest ever.
Analysts predict Simon Property Group Inc. will pay off debt and wait patiently for its next opportunity after withdrawing
separate offers to either acquire General Growth Properties or finance its exit from bankruptcy. A New York judge had endorsed
a rival plan that allows General Growth to stay independent.
David Simon, the shrewd and blunt deal-maker—an acquisitive former Wall Street wunderkind who transformed Simon Property
Group Inc. into the nation’s largest mall owner—is trying to land his biggest deal yet.
Retail sales rose 3.6 percent from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24, compared with a 3.2-percent drop in the year-ago period, according
to figures from MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse.
Wall Street analysts have described the potential sale of Chicago-based General Growth Properties as a “once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity” for a company to make “the deal of the decade” in the shopping-mall business.
After shoppers gave retailers a somewhat encouraging start to the holiday shopping season, stores now turn their attention
to the online promotions known as Cyber Monday and bringing back customers the rest of the season.