Retail
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Urban Outfitters to Supersize Anthropologie Store in King of Prussia Mall
Urban Outfitters Inc. is making another attempt to boost its lower performing brands by rolling out larger Anthropologie stores as they seem to be resonating with customers who want more variety, writes Suzette Parmley for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Encouraged by first-quarter numbers for fiscal 2017, which show a three percent increase in net sales as well…
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Pottstown Deals Tax Breaks for Business Improvements
Pottstown is making a deal with businesses to boost investment in local revitalization. Under the terms of the proposal, qualifying companies would get to bypass paying taxes on the improved value of their facilities in exchange for the economic development and its ripple effect throughout the neighborhood. As long as the Pottstown School District and…
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Competing Fashion Outlets Make Montco Entrance
Big-name retailers are racing down the fashion runway to discount their latest trends, and Montgomery County shoppers are lining up at the finish line. Within a day of each other last week, the Metroplex and the Montgomery Mall each christened a brand new fashion outlet: Off 5th by Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy’s Backstage —…
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Warmer Weather Brings Lighter Menu Items to Saladworks
As the warmer weather pushes jackets back in the closet, restaurants are adjusting their menus with a selection of lighter items such as seasonal salads and fish based dishes, writes Nation’s Restaurant News. “People are feeling like, I cannot hide under my parka anymore,” noted Patrick Sugrue, President and Chief Executive of Saladworks. “They are dressing…
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Bryn Mawr’s Knit Wit and Skirt Among Philadelphia Magazine’s Top Shops
In an age of Amazon, of big-box behemoths and, soon, of drones that will plop packages, stork-like, on doorsteps, Philadelphia Magazine compiled a list of the best independent boutiques that are redefining the shopping experience. Bryn Mawr’s Knit Wit and Skirt were two of the 50 recognized. The best stores are breathing new life into…
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IKEA to Provide Makeover for Charities
IKEA U.S., the chain selling ready-to-assemble furniture that has corporate headquarters in Conshohocken, announced that 43 charities across the country will be receiving a makeover and product donations as a result of winning this year’s IKEA Life Improvement Challenge. Additionally, 77 other charities that were first and second runners-up will win an IKEA product donation.…
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Urban Outfitters Will Cluster Four of Its Brands at KOP Mall
Urban Outfitters is set to offer four of its brands next to each other on the same level at the King of Prussia Mall, writes Suzette Parmley of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Philadelphia-based, multinational clothing company’s newly leased space of 40,000 square feet is in the mall’s Pavilion just across from the namesake Urban Outfitters,…
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KOP’s eBay Enterprise Adopts Radial as New Company Name
A King of Prussia-based, retail-logistics company of more than 7,500 employees has reincarnated yet again. After five years as eBay Enterprise, the company founded as GSI Commerce is back as an independent firm with a new name, Radial, writes Joseph DiStefano of the Philadelphia Inquirer. “We were the smallest business unit in a big public…
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Conshy’s Saladworks Gets New Boss
Patrick Sugrue will be the new boss of the Conshohocken-based Saladworks chain, writes Joseph DiStefano of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Centre Lane Partners, the New York private-equity firm that bought Saladworks out of bankruptcy for nearly $17 million last year, picked Sugrue to replace Paul Steck, who had run the chain since 2002. Sugrue was once…
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