Retail in a Digital World How to Survive and Thrive

July 21, 2015

In 10 years, retail will look very different. While the store will remain a cornerstone in most retail models, the “retailer of the future” will capture demand and trigger processes from novel sources such as wearables, mobile devices, smart homes, and cars. Nearly all store sales will be influenced by digital in 2020,1 and the retailer of the future will excel at orchestrating core processes in the maze of near-infinite purchase paths available to ever-more discerning consumers.

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We perform due diligence procedures on new investment opportunities which include, site evaluation, tenant mix and trading potential, financial analysis of historic data and modelling of indicative returns.We maintain and constantly update our database of retailers (in excess of 1 000).

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