Industry Leaders
Real estate solution-providers equip retailers to make strategic decisions
Any economic recovery begs a number of questions for a retailer: When can I grow again? Where should I go? What does my customer want and need now? How big can my stores — and my business — be? Even though we are on the other side of the deepest recession in decades, it is still critical that retailers correctly answer these questions. We're long past the days when a chain could rely on gut instinct about a store location.
Fortunately, chains navigating these tricky questions have a number of tools at their disposal. The companies below, listed alphabetically, are dedicated to giving retailers the information and data they need to make these decisions. Now, these tools provide hard numbers, often integrated with other systems, which turn raw facts into usable knowledge that will drive success.
A&G Realty Partners
Melville, N.Y.
A&G Realty Partners, a commercial real estate advisory and investment group, brings experience, capital, and decades of established and trusted relationships. A&G offers a comprehensive set of services that addresses both common and complex industry issues in today's marketplace, and combines both capital and expert strategic guidance through the entire real estate cycle. A&G is recognized for the creative solutions it applies across a broad spectrum of industry problems, particularly in growth, dispositions, lease renegotiations and due diligence.
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A&G engages in a variety of acquisition strategies, including purchasing real estate and mortgages. The company provides mortgages, equity and "rescue" capital and participates in tactical joint ventures. Through these means, A&G looks to create the most value out of the asset. It creates value out of distressed or underperforming assets by deploying capital and combining that with the team's restructuring expertise.
Buxton
Fort Worth, Texas
Customer analytics firm Buxton works with retailers to provide answers to questions around growth and expansion strategies. By knowing where its customers are, a retailer can prioritize existing sites and pinpoint new store or restaurant locations, locally, regionally or internationally, with the greatest sales potential — right down to the intersection. Since 1994, Buxton has worked with more than 2,000 clients, such as Tommy Bahama, OfficeMax, Marriott, TCBY and more.
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SCOUT is a Web-based real estate and analytics platform that allows users to analyze any location in the United States, run custom reports and visualize data on dynamic maps. SCOUT has been utilized by some of America's leading retailers to select high-performing locations for their stores. Utilizing customer analytics, every decision is backed by hard facts and objective data. Buxton can predict store performance with great accuracy, helping retail chains allocate the right resources for each location.
DAVACO
Dallas
DAVACO provides high-volume, turnkey implementation services for retail, restaurant and hospitality brands. With offices in the United States and Canada and over 1,500 W-2 employees located across North America, DAVACO specializes in facilitating multi-site changes with quality, consistency and speed-to-market. Services include: Rollouts, retrofits, resets and remodels; turnkey fixture programs; equipment and graphic installations; digital signage and technology upgrades; merchandising; inspection, site and marketing surveys; logistics and consolidation; sustainability; and other special initiatives.
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DAVACO supports all programs with its proprietary technology, ClearThread, which utilizes mobile technology and secure, web-accessible client portals to provide greater visibility and productivity into program execution. Featuring real-time updates, before/after photos, site data and advanced reporting capabilities, ClearThread aggregates and consolidates critical program information for maximum efficiencies.
DJM Realty
A Gordon Brothers Group Company
Melville, N.Y.
DJM Realty is the real estate arm of 110-year-old Gordon Brothers Group with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, London, Cologne and Tokyo. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in New York, DJM is a worldwide provider of strategic real estate solutions in healthy and distressed situations — combining experienced professionals, technology, research and abundant capital to provide real estate disposition, restructuring, auditing, mergers & acquisitions, and advisory services.
Meet with DJM Realty at RECon in Las Vegas at Booth # 289 R Street in the South Hall. To schedule a meeting in advance, call 631-752-1100.
Virtual Premise
Atlanta
Virtual Premise provides best-in-class solutions for corporate and retail real estate management. The company's cloud-based software and services help customers deliver on their business strategies by better managing their real estate portfolios. Virtual Premise solutions include strategy and analytics, portfolio management, lease management, lease administration, project management, transaction management, and lease abstracting and document management services. Virtual Premise differentiates itself by providing best-in-class software that provides superior visibility and control at a value that is unmatched in the industry.
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The enhanced VP Retail Edition includes an advanced strategy and analytics module that provides visibility into critical store performance and real estate information. Designed for company executives, real estate deal-makers, and store planning and construction managers, the technology consolidates critical real estate information with data from other business systems to produce actionable information. The powerful strategy and analytics module enables retailers to align real estate operations with company objectives to increase profitability.