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economist sun stoufiville tribune saturday sept 18 1999 9 business retailer to vacate two york region shopping malls pacific linen folds by patrick casey staff writer more unexpected retail space has opened up at two york region shopping malls after the pacific linen company announced it will close its opera tion on both sides of the border canadas largest specialty bed and bath chain pacific linen will shut 19 canadian outlets includ ing its stores at markville shopping centre in markham and newmarkets upper canada mall another 10 in the united states will also close both malls will lose their anchor eatons stores once final liquidation sales wrap up in november while markville upper canada and hillcrest mall in richmond hill all lost marks spencer stores when the london retailer began closing its 38 canadian outlets in april a call to pacific linens seattle washington headquarters was not returned but universal capital group a minneapolisbased liquidation firm has started plans to clear out all the stores merchandise we have wrote alarge cheque for the right to go in and liquidate the entire inventory universal capital group executive michael catain explained in a telephone interview this week everybody uses linen and towels and sheets so i believe this stock should go very quickly we will also set up a job fair with a national chain because our goal at the end of this is to have zero unem ployment it usually works since theres such a demand in the retail sector and good employees will have a job according to catain the average pacific linen store occupies between 18000 and 20000 square feet and employs about 20 people in each outlet other stores in greater toronto include oakville brampton and ajax which just opened last year according to retail analyst richard talbot pacific linen has experienced problems since its inception it also faced steep competition from tra ditional department stores and american bigbox player bed bath and beyond which just announced an agreement to open its first canadian outlet at thevaughan mills mall founded in 1980 pacific linen closed a number of stores in 1996 after amassing 321 million us in debt after the company sought chapter 11 bankruptcy protection american retailer scott hessler acquired the assets and injected 85 mil lion as part of a courtapproved reorganization department stores in canada are very strong in linen and i believe pacific linen just underesti mated the strength in this market said talbot a representative of unionvilles thomas consultants international inc when you have good prices at the bay sears or eatons who needs to go to a spe cialty store bed bath and beyond is typically found in the mills projects and beyond is the key because they are twice the size at over 40000 square feet pacific linen is just what it says with bedding towels and linen and thats pretty boring but walk around bed bath and beyond and you realize its more of a full home furnishing store talbot meanwhile said both malls should have i little difficulty replacing their pacific linen stores especially since the company kept its monthly rent low by leasing with narrow frontage stores with large back space calls to torontos cadillac fairview corp and cambridge shopping centres ltd respective own ers of me markville centre and upper canada mall were riot returned 20 off only with london cleaners established since 1929 all regular priced dry cleaning for a free information pao eclstsun 2942200 stoufiville tribune 6402100 pg hotkey brochure i r r- v- longos i- tournament of champions m fortinos g of e driveway repair dominion v ehbridgeconsumt appliance centre pro music sunny delight brochure mm meats unionville netiud f si rkham skating club mm iimteats stouftville home depot liquidation world touffville ida drug mdmg success starts here at oxford students develop skills for success in school and life success in reading writing comprehension spelling organization planning motivation and critical 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