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Mall Operator Predicts Online Shopping Ceiling Of 20 Percent Of Retail Sales

December 15, 2017
Online Shopping To Peak At 20 Percent Of Retail Sales Predicts Unibail CEO
European Property Group Makes A Big Buy Into US Malls
Retail // December 12, 2017

Unibail-Rodamco, Europe’s largest property firm, is on track to purchase U.S. and U.K. mall operator Westfield Corp. for $16 billion. That big buy is a defensive move designed to help the firm fend off the digital onslaught led by eCommerce operations like Amazon, according to reports from...

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Mall Operator Predicts Online Shopping Ceiling Of 20 Percent Of Retail Sales

December 15, 2017
Unibail-Rodamco CEO Christophe Cuvillier said on Thursday (Dec. 14) that he believes brick-and-mortar retail will never go away and that eCommerce has its limitations. On a conference call covered by Reuters, the CEO of a company — that is spending $16 billion to buy Westfield to create a global shopping mall company — said online shopping will […]

European Property Group Makes A Big Buy Into US Malls

December 12, 2017
Unibail-Rodamco, Europe’s largest property firm, is on track to purchase U.S. and U.K. mall operator Westfield Corp. for $16 billion. That big buy is a defensive move designed to help the...