BROKERAGE
The Retail Connection's knowledge driven platform ensures a thorough understanding of the market's critical points, as well as the performance of its
ADVISORY
Exclusively a synergistic platform, The Retail Connection delivers brokerage, advisory and investment services to maximize the productivity and profit
INVESTMENT
Client-centered development, acquisition and merchant banking services enable us to align with our retail clients to deliver their objectives. Created
PetSmart Has The Answers
October 29, 2008 - Inside Retail, Volume 1, Issue 2 Fall 2008
In terms of emerging retailers, PetSmart, Inc. is the largest specialty pet retailer of services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets. They operate more than 1,075 stores in the United States and Canada, providing a broad range of competitively priced pet food and pet products; services including pet training, pet grooming, pet boarding and pet adoption services. In addition to providing great value, they have the broadest, deepest product range in the industry, including thousands of products exclusive to PetSmart.
Dogs and their pet parents grow smarter each year with help from their 1,500 accredited pet training instructors. PetSmart PetsHotels®, overnight boarding and daycare facilities for dogs and cats, offers an exclusive promise, featuring caregivers who are hand-picked for their love of pets and are on the premises 24 hours a day. PetSmart Charities® Adoption Centers are located inside every PetSmart store. Since 1994, PetSmart Charities, Inc., an independent 501[c][3] non-profit animal welfare organization, funded more than $70 million in grants and programs benefiting animal welfare organizations and, through its in-store pet adoption programs, has saved the lives of more than 3 million pets.
Whether it’s finding the right pet, the best food or the perfect toy, signing up for training or grooming sessions, checking into a PetsHotel, or taking home a newly adopted dog or cat, PetSmart has the answers. To learn more about this emerging retail company, go to www.petsmart.com.
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Leadership
Mark I. Gibson and J. Guy Revelle are the founders and
shareholders of Millennium Management Group, Inc. Millennium
maintains offices in Orlando and Tampa and is involved in the
development, ownership, and operation of various restaurant and
entertainment concepts. Millennium has operated Splitsville-Tampa
since its inception in December 2003. Millennium will be the
operating partner for company locations. Gibson and
Revelle are co-founders and partners in Splitsville.
Edward C. Droste is the co-founder and a partner in Hooters
Restaurants. Hooters originated in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983. The
chain currently has 450 units worldwide, including 27 countries,
with annual sales approaching 1 billion and a food products
business with products in over 10,000 outlets. In conjunction
with Hooters Restaurants, Droste formed Provident Advertising
and Marketing to coordinate the restaurant chains' promotional
activities. In addition, since the opening of the first Hooters, Drost
TRC Wins Dallas’ Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies Second Year in a Row
November 21, 2008 - Dallas Business Journal
Launched by Southern Methodist University's Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship in 1990, the Dallas 100 is a tribute to the vitality and entrepreneurial spirit of the emerging business community in North Texas. As in years past, the companies honored in 2008 have made significant contributions to the ares by generating thousands of new jobs, increasing the tax base and fostering the Dallas area's reputation as a premier economic development center.
The Dallas 10 award winners - the area's fastest-growing companies- are chosen solely on increased growth in sales, giving weight to percentage of growth and absolute growth between 2005 and 2007. An elegible company must be an independent, privately held corporation, proprietorship or partnership [not a subisdiary or division of a parent company], as of May 1, 2008; be located in the Dallas area; have had sales of more than $500,000 in fiscal 2005; had sales of not more than $75 million in 2005; have a three-year sales history reflecting growth and have a credit report and character satisfactory to the Dallas 100.
The Retail Connection LP Steven A. Lieberman, co-founder and CEO, Alan P. Shor, co-founder and President were two of the recent company heads who were acknowleged for their efforts in building a strong new platform which exceptional potential for growth. Overview - BUSINESS: Commercial real estate brokerage, advisory and investment, with a focus on the retail sector. REASONS FOR GROWTH: The tremendous insight, visibility, unparalleled influence and opportunities the company derives by virtue of its relationships: 190-plus retail chains, 17 million square feet of project listings and more than 2 million square feet of shopping center developments. BIGGEST CHALLENGE: Certain components of our platform, such as development, face significant challenges due to current market conditions. We must responsively adapt our business plan to keep our team active and intact. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED: Do it right. Also, the best team wins.
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