渥太华是首都吗？

[静夜雪飞舞]

为什么？为什么？

什么都没有。Target也不在渥太华开店

Target’s Canadian advance starts in Windsor-Toronto corridor

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/busine...orridor/5953108/story.html?cid=megadrop_story

OTTAWA — U.S. retailer Target Corp. has announced the locations of its first Canadian stores, and so far, Ottawa is not in its sights.

The Minneapolis chain, which is taking over the leases of as many as 220 Zellers outlets in a $1.8-billion deal with Hudson’s Bay Co., said Thursday it will open 24 stores in Ontario’s Windsor-Toronto corridor by April 2013.

It said it will announce additional openings in coming months.

Target, which operates 1,767 stores in the United States, has said it will take over eight Zellers locations in Ottawa and Gatineau, including the small but high-profile Zellers store on the Sparks Street Mall. It has not confirmed whether it will actually open in all those locations, however.

The retailer says it will spend $10 million to $11 million to remodel each store and hire as many as 200 employees per outlet.
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[Everflying.cheng]

yea. answer instead of CCC.

 

[miaomiao2012]

我来了以后也觉得被骗了，跟北京没法比

 

[ccc]

很多国家的首都都不是大都会。

商人看的是商机。

 

[Everflying.cheng]

很多国家的首都都不是大都会。

商人看的是商机。

村长， 该整理一下思路来， 我们整天歪楼， 弄得东一句，西一个字的。呵呵

首都与商机有神马关系呀？ 有一个岳飞打张飞， 打得满天飞。。

 

[Everflying.cheng]

我来了以后也觉得被骗了，跟北京没法比

要说建设豪华，我觉得纽约都赶不上北京上海。

 

[成人之美]

Montreal比Ottawa繁华的多吧？大统华至今没有在那里开设分店，首都人民要知足！

 

[静夜雪飞舞]

知足=不思进取

上当了

 

[狐狸不在家]

那靶子店也没多好，也就 Home outfitter 一档次的。不来就不来吧，我们有最大的ikea 就足够了~

 

[Everflying.cheng]

那靶子店也没多好，也就 Home outfitter 一档次的。不来就不来吧，我们有最大的ikea 就足够了~

呵呵， 还是来越多越好， 有利于降价， 会有更多的Flyers

 

[super123]

ottawa的穿着是最土的，这地方催人老。18岁来了，也变成黄花菜

 

[Everflying.cheng]

ottawa的穿着是最土的，这地方催人老。18岁来了，也变成黄花菜

恩， 正确

 

[Jingle]

capital city != biggest city

Why do we need care whether Target is opening store here or not?

 

[buddha]

你们真不知还是假不知啊？target把zellers拿下了。bayshore的zellers和the bay准备扩一倍。把原来停车场的那些地方都建了。

 

[uglyducking]

several zellers location will become target in ottawa but not all. a few month ago there was an article on OBJ having a list which store will become target.


Target names six Ottawa locations, 105 across Canada
http://www.obj.ca/Local/Retail/2011...mes-six-Ottawa-locations,-105-across-Canada/1

Target Corp. put its big red bulls-eye on the first 105 Zellers locations – including stores in every province – that it plans to take over with an eye to converting them into Target stores.

Topics :
Zellers , Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , TSX , Canada , United States , Ottawa

The U.S. department store retailer said Thursday the "vast majority" of the locations will become Target stores and begin opening in 2013 after extensive renovations.

Target stores will open at six locations in Ottawa:

- Bayshore Shopping Centre

- Billings Bridge Plaza

- Hazeldean Mall

- Meadowlands Shopping Centre

- Place D'Orleans

- RioCan St. Laurent

"We are thrilled to share these first details about our planned entry into Canada," Target Canada president Tony Fisher said in a statement.

"We are excited that these initial store sites ensure Target will be represented throughout the country."

Target said the chosen locations will continue to operate as Zellers stores before closing for six to nine months and reopening as Target stores after some significant remodelling.

Zellers locations that Target acquires, but does not convert to its banner, will be leased back to Zellers or potentially other retailers.

Target, a 109-year old American retailer that was part of Dayton-Hudson Corp. before changing its name in 2000, is one of the biggest U.S. department store chains, with revenues of more than US$67 billion in its last fiscal year.

The company has more than 355,000 employees and is the second-biggest discount retailer in the U.S. after Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Target is expanding to Canada in a similar way Wal-Mart did in 1994, after the world's biggest retailer bought the chain of Woolco department stores in Canada, refurbished them and renamed them Wal-Mart Canada.

The F.W. Woolworth Co. started the Woolco chain in the early 1960s in Columbus, Ohio and expanded it to hundreds of stores in North America and the United Kingdom. The stores went bankrupt in the United States and Britain in the 1980s but kept active in Canada until they were sold in 1994.

The list announced by Target on Thursday includes sites owned by some 22 property owners and landlords with whom Target has reached lease agreements.

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:REI.UN), one of Canada's largest retail landlords, said 21 of its 34 locations with Zellers stores were on the initial list.

"This transaction highlights the intrinsic value in our portfolio, and will bring tremendous potential for repositioning and the opportunity to further enhance value and cash flow growth in our centres," RioCan president and chief executive Edward Sonshine said in a statement.

Primaris Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (TSXMZ.UN) owns five locations, while Homburg Canada Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:HCR.UN) owns three spots in Quebec. Morguard (TSX:MRC) and Morguard Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:MRT.UN) own 12 of the locations.

Ivanhoe Cambridge, the real estate arm of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, owns 14 locations, while Cadillac Fairview, the real estate investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, owns seven locations.

Target said it hopes to finalize the acquisition of the sites quickly and pay the first half of the $1.825 billion it agreed to for the locations.

Under the deal signed earlier this year to take over up to 220 Zellers locations from the Hudson's Bay Co. Target said Thursday it will continue to select additional locations before it makes a second payment in the fall.

Hudson's Bay has 279 Zellers locations. Stores that Target does not want could be sold to other retail giants like Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) or could remain in the hands of the Bay.

Target also announced it will establish a Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ont., just west of Toronto. The retailer has signed a deal for 180,000 square-feet of office space that will be occupied in early 2012 after some remodelling.

Target said it plans to spend about $10 million on each store to renovate and remodel the location before opening.

Each store in Canada is expected to employ 150 to 200 people.

Target, based in Minneapolis, has 1,755 stores in 49 states.

– With files from OBJ Staff