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TopRetailTenants.com is designed for brokers, property managers and cities interested in identifying and attracting the best retailers for a shopping center, retail location or development. TopRetailTenants.com is offered both as a website with a free, summary Top Tenants Report and an app that will work on both Google and Apple mobile devices.
The current version of TopRetailTenants.com evaluates over 1,000 major chains simultaneously for any location, grades the potential of each chain and provides Detailed Reports listing the top retail concepts for each of 23 retail categories. A size filter allows you screen out retail concepts that will not work in the available space. The Summary Top Tenants Report is free and Detailed Reports by retail category are available for a fee. Also, for any retailer in the Detailed Reports you can generate a full BrandScore Report to help with recruitment at no additional cost.
TopRetailTenants.com was developed by World Forecasting Systems, Inc. in partnership with TheRetailPlanet.com™ which owns the technology underlying the grades generated for each retail brand in any location. This technology took four years to develop and is described by our Founder, Dr. Richard Fenker, in the excerpt below from his latest book, "How Retailers Find Their Place, Introducing BrandScore."
We all understand the concept of scoring or grading whether we are talking about credit, fine wines, sports or the movies whereas the term forecasting often carries the burden of statistical or financial interpretations that are not commonly used in business environments. Constructing sales forecasting models for retailers, for many years, I had often thought there must be a simpler way to communicate the value of a location for a retailer with the complexity and politics that comes with sales prediction.
The first versions of my property scoring system were designed in 2004. They were based on the assumption that all commercial property can be classified, or scored, on seven key dimensions. These early models were limited due to the lack of detailed information on shopping centers and retail areas. However, by the time TheRetailPlanet.com™ was launched in early 2010, we had addressed this problem with the development of ShopPoint, our comprehensive database of retailers, centers and retail districts. Scoring all retail property in the United States was now a solvable problem.
Through this vision TheRetailPlanet.com™ is breaking new ground in providing smart, accessible tools for the retail industry. Our products provide intelligence for Retail Site Selection. Center Planning, Tenant Identification and Recruitment, Financial Risk and much more.
What is unique about TopRetailTenants.com is that is solves a problem that has never had a scientific solution: scoring all brands for a retail location. Brokers are very good at intuitive solutions to this problem but no other scientific solution exists. To get details on the logic for the scores or grades and the underlying components please ask for a free copy of Dr. Fenker's book, "How Retailers Find Their Place."
