Developers Diversified Realty
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : DDR |
| Industry | REIT - Retail |
| Founded | 1965 |
| Headquarters | Beachwood, Ohio, United States |
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Key people
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Terrance Ahern, Chairman David Lukes, President & CEO |
| Revenue |
 US$$1.628 bil (2013) |
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Number of employees
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601 (January 31, 2013) |
| Website | www |
DDR Corp. is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns and manages value-oriented, open-air retail shopping centers, or "power centers" in the United States mainland and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1965 and is based in Beachwood, Ohio, an eastern suburb of Greater Cleveland. It operates in approximately 40 continental U.S. states and in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The company's roots go back to a group of companies established by lawyer and single family home builder Bert Wolstein, an alumnus of Cleveland–Marshall College of Law. In 1965 he switched to commercial real estate and began a partnership with Kmart, with the first one built in 1965.
DDR filed its initial public offering of Common Shares on February 2, 1993. The price at that time was $22.00 per share, and the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DDR on February 2, 1993.
On September 12, 2011 the company announced plans to change its name from Developers Diversified Realty Corporation to DDR Corp., adopting the NYSE ticker symbol as its name. The new name was chosen to represent a simplified strategy, portfolio and capital structure, as the words “developers” and “diversified” no longer accurately describe the company’s focus. Ground-up development of shopping centers is still a part of the company’s business, but does not warrant top billing in the company’s name. Further, the company’s focus on power centers renders the word “diversified” inaccurate. In September 2011, the company also launched a new tagline: “Think Retail. Create Value.” The new tagline was meant to emphasize the company’s objective to see the world through the eyes of its customers – retailers - and that the company’s primary reason for being is to create shareholder value.
In August 2013, DDR and Blackstone Group’s joint venture acquired a portfolio of seven open-air shopping centers from Regency Centers Corporation for $332 million.
In March 2014, DDR agreed to exit its Brazilian joint venture by selling its stake to the firm’s largest shareholder for $343.6 million.
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