Consolidation makes its mark on industry's leading owners. Consolidation continues to characterize today's retail industry. "The easiest way to grow is to acquire others' real estate in existing properties," says Norman W. Peters, senior vice...
The Mills Corp. supplants Horizon Group at the top spot. Recent statistics from the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Outlet Retail Merchants' Association pegs the outlet industry in the United States at 311 outlet centers, or 56.4...
The surge of mergers and acquisitions that took place during 1997 has affected the makeup of our Top 50 Owners of Shopping Centers -- although no acquisitions were great enough to loosen Simon DeBartolo Group's hold on the No. 1 position...
