Via libera dell'Antitrust all'acquisizione da parte del Gruppo Coin dell'intero capitale sociale di Upim. La nascita del piu' grande gruppo italiano nella distribuzione di abbigliamento (con 10mila dipendenti, quasi 900 negozi compresa la rete dei franchising, ed un fatturato, nei prossimi tre anni, stimato a 2 miliardi di euro) per l'Antitrust ''non produce modifiche sostanziali alla struttura dell'offerta, che resta significativamente frammentata''.
 

Unibail-Rodamco has entered into an agreement to acquire Simon Ivanhoe for EUR 715 mln. Under the deal, Europe's largest listed real estate company will gain control of a portfolio of shares in seven shopping centres in France and Poland. Simon Ivanhoe is the jointly held European subsidiary of the Simon Property Group and Ivanhoe Cambridge.

As the new year gets under way, Magdus, the European Factory Outlet Centres Observatory, provides an initial review of 2009 and sets out prospects for 2010. The analysis takes its cue from an early January round of interviews with managers of major factory outlet centre groups operating in Europe and representing over 800,000 m² of sales area, a third of overall retail space, and from a survey conducted among centre managers in France, Belgium and the Netherlands in late December and early January.

The first aspect to be noted is that, despite a depressed overall context (initi... [CONTINUA]