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Greening Retail: Volume 1 - Identifying the 'Greening Retail' Opportunity for Canadian Retailers

By Wendy Evans, Marion Denney, Bernie Mcintyre, Anne Reesor, Renee Van Den Bremer

In recent years concerns over global warming and sustainability have been at the forefront of world political...

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Canada's Leading Retailers - Latest Trends and Strategies: 5th Edition

By Christopher Daniel, Dr. Tony Hernandez and Joseph Aversa

This report provides insight into the trends and strategies of Canada's Top 112 retail corporations for Fiscal 2005.  The...

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Foreign Retailers in China: Stories of Success and Setbacks

By Shuguang Wang and Paul Du

Retail internationalization has been a recurrent theme of research at the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA).  The centre's research has included: studies...

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Lifestyle Centres in Canada: 2007

By Dr. Tony Hernandez

The 'lifestyle centre' label is regarded by many practitioners in the retail development and planning industry as an over-used misnomer that is increasingly being adopted...

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Power Retail Growth in Canada and the GTA: 2006

By Dr. Tony Hernandez, Tansel Erguden and Magnus Svindal

The evolution of power retailing has been the focus of numerous CSCA reports over the last decade.  The development and...

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Location Strategies in Quebec

By Jim Simmons and Shizue Kamikihara

This paper continues the interest of the CSCA in location strategy as the sequence of sites selected by various commercial format or brand names.  The...

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The Diversity of Commercial Locations in the Greater Toronto Area

By Jim Simmons and Shizue Kamikihara

The CSCA has been compiling information about the commercial structure of the Toronto region for more than fifteen years.  Periodically we try to pull...

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Aging Consumers and the Commercial Structure

By Dr. Tony Hernandez, Jim Simmons and Shizue Kamikihara

Canada's population will age significantly over the next few decades.  As a result there will be a steady increase in...

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Productivity Growth in Canadian Retailing

By Jim Simmons

This research letter focuses on the productivity gains that have been experienced within the Canadian retail industry.  The causes of such growth are discussed with reference to...

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