CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — SM Prime Holdings has started opening upscale shops in its mall here, following the recommendations of a market study conducted last year. Early this month, Miss Couture, an international label handled by the shopping mall operator, opened its doors at the SM City Cagayan de Oro, targeting Northern Mindanao’s upper middle- to high-income markets.

MANILA – In this mall-crazy country, shoppers are expected to flock to malls during the 3-day-long weekend.

THE developer and operator of the Sy-controlled Podium Mall is hiking its authorized capital stock in a fund-raising effort to build a new high-rise project within the vicinity of the shopping development.

BAGUIO City—SM City here yesterday launched a breast-feeding station, making it the 31st breast-feeding- friendly mall in the country.

Hot, hot heartthrob John Lloyd Cruz with the new Adidas Microbounce shoe.

SM Supermalls Vismin PR team with SM head office publicity staff led by Senior PR Manager Melody Bay (5th from left).

Supermarket sales remain buoyant amid crisis on steady demand for food items, which account for the bulk of merchandise in store shelves.

GENERAL Santos City—Barangay Lagao in this city is abuzz with excitement at the prospect of seeing up close competition between the country’s two biggest mall operators here.

SM investments Corp. (SMIC), the SM Group’s holding company, remains open to doing business with multinational company Colgate-Palmolive and Star Cinema of ABS-CBN even after both companies have pulled out their products.

SM PRIME HOLDINGS INC. POSTED an 8-percent growth in first semester net profit as the retail sector remained resilient to the global economic downturn.