Retailer Services

Making the correct retail real estate decision is paramount to a retailer’s success. Your location is the lifeblood of your business, and the landscape of retail is ever-changing. You want to find the location, which will out position all of your competition, at the best value, resulting in a successful and profitable endeavor. ChainLinks understands this with glaring clarity.

We know retail, and the importance of every intricate detail involved with securing the best possible location and getting your doors open to the customer. How are we different? We always take the time to know each and every nuance of a client’s brand, their customer, and what makes for an “A+” location. We understand our clients’ needs to be convenient to the customers and the critical connection between excellent locations and robust sales - which leads Wall Street and private investors alike raving about our clients and the locations they open and operate. Our experience, market knowledge, technological tools, and ongoing commitment to your business success are the backbone of a system that works to ensure that your store opens in exactly the right place.

ChainLinks has over 600 locally-based retail broker specialists operating from 60+ offices nationwide who know their communities and, because they operate independently, are nimble and totally responsive. While autonomous in nature, each member office maintains close contact with the ChainLinks corporate office and the other member offices, which means that as soon as one of our member offices knows what is right for your brand, we all do. Knowing the difference makes all the difference – and that’s the key to your success.

ChainLinks member companies have invested heavily in state-of-the-art technology. Combined with our industry relationships and local market knowledge developed over decades of involvement in the retail industry, this investment provides ChainLinks with the unique ability to produce fast, accurate, and easily understandable reports and maps to meet the needs of our clients. Such reports can include, but do not need to be limited to, trends in demographics, housing, and employment; trade area and drive-time analysis; competition studies; high-resolution aerial photography and digital mapping; marketing materials; and electronic presentations. As a result, our clients are able to delve as deeply as they need into any subject related to their market strategy, and can compare and contrast markets across three continents.

We all know that times change and visions change. Consequently, locations need to change. We will become a strategic partner and help dispose of unwanted retail stores, vacant or excess land, and other unnecessary or underperforming assets. We know virtually every landlord and every retailer in the nation, and we understand how to mitigate leasehold exposures. In short, we can help you make the best of an undesirable situation.

Finally, there’s no guarantee that the lessons learned stateside will translate elsewhere. As important as local knowledge and connections may be in the United States, they are even more essential when doing business overseas. And that’s all the more reason to tap into an organization that has firsthand knowledge of the latest retail trends and neighborhoods in places like London, Paris, Toronto, and Mexico City. You can go global and still connect with the locals.