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TORG: Outlet Retail Specialists “TORG knows where the sector is, where it’s been and where it’s going.” Value Retail News Managing Editor Duke Ratliff covers The Outlet Resource Group (TORG) in this month’s feature story. “David Hinkle and Lisa Wagner brought decades of experience to The Outlet Resource Group (TORG) when they formed the advisory […]

Last month, TORG’s David Hinkle provided the signature quote for a Chain Store Age article on the increase in outlet retailer locations and the related boom in outlet center traffic. “When you’ve got about 215 outlet centers spread around the U.S. and 12 new ones open, that’s significant growth,” Mr. Hinkle told the online magazine. […]

Finding a New Outlet “New retailers and new consumers (read: millennials) discovering value retail, and that means more outlet centers in more locales in more different configurations.” Chain Store Age covers the significant rise of outlet centers across the United States in their November/December issue, quoting TORG Principal David Hinkle as to the why and how of […]

According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) 2014 World Urbanization Prospects (a biannual report), 66% of the world’s population is projected to be urban dwellers by 2030 up from the current 54%. Right now, a whopping 82% of North America’s population lives in urban areas and that number is […]