GLG News by Sears and Kmart Real Estate Experts

Sharper Image, Bon-Ton, Lillian Vernon, Buffets Holdings Inc., Gottschalks and several other retailers are in serious financial trouble according to this article, because of the current credit squeeze.   I am suggesting that the current credit squeeze has played a very small roll in accelerating...

Only two days after announcing the opening of their 50th store in California, the British invasion of Tesco stores has been found to have very serious problems. After successfully demonstrating a powerful real estate and operations achievement with the opening of so many stores in such a short time...

Wall Street worries about the recession's impact on mall REITs are discussed in this article and found to be groundless. The article compiles recent Conference Calls with the CEOs of the leading mall REITs and concludes that once again the leading financial analysts have misread their tea leaves where...

Another national chain furniture retailer, recently acquired by a hedge fund, bites the dust! What the heck is going on?   Only a few months into the current recession and just beginning to feel the effects of the bursting of the housing bubble, several old line major furniture retailers have...

Three or four very smart financial analyst from major financial institutions have been writing about the likelihood of "breaking up" Sears as discussed in this article.  I have not yet seen as thorough nor candid analysis as this Chicago Tribune article and as such, I am recommending it to...

This article is not at all important!  It is a feeble excuse for a half baked promotion and/or book review about the life of an eccentric architect who was one of the first designers of enclosed regional malls.  The article is an inaccurate and highly slanted commentary about...

In my opinion, this is the first newspaper article or financial analysis of any kind that has finally "gotten it right"!  The reporters did a very professional research job, (including calling GLG to talk to some of their "experts" under GLG's new media arrangements), and put...

SuperValue owns some of the finest and most dominant local grocers in the country. They opened their first Sunflower store in January of 2006 and announced they intended to open 50 more over the next five years. These stores were a slightly smaller organic format designed to be competitive...

Is "Market Woes" the real reason for this rather unusual about face ? What really went on in Carrefour's board room to convince the impatient hedge funds to back off from their insistence on increasing the debt load? It seems to me that it was being done just to satisfy some greedy short term investors....

While this may seem like "piling on" with so many analysts and financial writers suddenly waking up to "bursting" of the Sears "bubble", not one of them have yet acurately addressed the underlying factors that account for their sudden down grading of their real estate portfolio. My following...