Hints and tips:
...“It was an auction of the most significant internet real estate to come on the market ever,” said another person involved in multiple auctions. “I don’t think we will see anything like it again.”...
...Wal-Mart’s shares have gained almost 30 per cent over the same period....
...The founder’s grandsons – Jay, Donald and Robert – expanded further into real estate and diversified the company into a broad range of investments....
...to real estate....
...Financial stocks led the Nikkei’s fall as a real-estate investment trust and an insurer failed....
...Outside the main real estate investment trust sector, there are scores of property investment trusts, many of which own good properties but again trade at big discounts to net asset value....
...JLD: Well, I think that when you offer to the consumer a 50-year real estate loan without really explaining what can happen I would say in the short term it has a nice impact for the customer....
...That means government contacts are essential to gain the best real estate deals. The Chinese groups have played on these ties to build their operations....
...The group, the world’s second biggest retailer after Wal-Mart, is sitting on a property gold mine....
...Add in Trust-Mart’s annual sales to Wal-Mart’s Chinese business, and the two outfits combined still make less than 1 per cent of group revenue....
...Wal-Mart’s PR company Edelman would have done well to note such comments before agreeing to sponsor a blog called Wal-Marting across America, written by a couple who were camping in store car parks....
...When Wal-Mart reduced their packaging 5%, they made $3.4 million, so they’re just announcing a new healthcare plan and I was talking to Lee Scott today, and he told me about another company where the CEO...
...After building the malls, Taubman may decide to inject the new asset into a real-estate investment trust. Other options include a refinancing of the deal or a stock-market listing of the asset....
...Investors led Apollo Management, the private equity firm, and including National Realty & Development, a real estate firm, have agreed to pay Linens ‘n Things’ stockholders $28 per share in cash, a 6 per...
...The presence of the real estate investment trusts Kimco and Vornado - which also owns a 4.3 per cent stake in Sears, Roebuck - suggests the buyer could be keen to engineer a Kmart-style restructuring by...
...Bentonville, Wal-Mart's home town in Arkansas, was planning to name its new public library after Coughlin, an old guard associate of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and his wife, Cynthia....
...The presence of the real estate investment trusts Kimco and Vornado - which also owns a 4.3 per cent stake in Sears, Roebuck - suggests those groups might want to break up the extensive property portfolio...
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and an investment group including Cerberus Capital Management, Goldman Sachs and Kimco Realty, a real estate investment trust, have both recently expressed an interest in bidding...
...They make it by being Wal-Mart....
...Further down, Sinclair Pharma rose 5.2 per cent to 140.5p after its treatment for mouth ulcers, Aloclair, was accepted for US distribution in Wal-Mart stores....
...A sponsor for Daikyo has yet to be selected, though Mori Trust, a real estate developer, is understood to be among the candidates....
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