It houses the usual spread of big-name retailers to be found in most of South Africa's major malls.

Yahoo Japan then chose to simply list about 100 big-name retailers on its site and collected real estate fees from them.

It features plenty of big-name high-end retailers, along with a couple of smaller, specialty merchants.

Another sign of the changes in Silicon Valley's thinking about consumer e-commerce companies is the red-hot popularity of partnerships with big-name traditional retailers.

Macy's, 47th Street Photo and other big-name retailers are in various stages of bankruptcy, but Alan Fortunoff is undaunted.

If, in fact, Amazon was having trouble attracting big-name retailers in the short term, Gap could remedy that, and do itself some good in the meantime, analysts said.

Even big-name retailers, from Nordstrom to Barnes & Noble, have not been able to show that Internet retailing is anything but a money-losing venture.

Many stores are laboring under high debt and low profits, giving rise to an almost constant swirl of rumors about what big-name retailer will be the next to collapse.

It was this growing class of affluent Indonesians that lured big-name foreign retailers to Indonesia in the first place.

Hammerson's strategy was to create a combination of big-name retailers at the new centre, including a number of international retail banners fairly new to Britain.