The Brown Book Reference Guide to Retail and Restaurant Tenants and Expansion Guide is the most comprehensive guide to chains that are active space users of real estate in existence.

This reference guide covers virtually every category of retail from apparel to travel stores and every merchant type in between from mass-market discounters to elite, luxury brands with only a handful of stores. It also includes a detailed inventory of restaurant concepts from fast food/QSR chains to fine dining, categorized by every restaurant type from classic American fare (burgers and hot dogs), to vegetarian chains and every permutation in between. The Brown Book covers concepts active in the United States and Canada and includes data on roughly 8,000 chains ranging from the largest, multinational chains to small local chains. It includes their most recent store counts, their typical space needs (square footage (min/max), real estate preference (malls, outdoor/strip, urban, etc.), geographic preferences (national, regional or local growth) and their announced or estimated growth (or contraction) plans for 2024. 

With a purchase of the Brown Book you get the underlying data that is represented here in these PDF books, as well as many useful fields covering corporate contact information, additional concept descriptions/history, franchise or corporate status and more.

Plus you get monthly updates of the data sheet for one year reflecting all the latest news from revised growth plans, bankruptcies or financial issues, and any changes in contact ownership.  Plus, we are continuing to expand our coverage and are adding dozens of additional concepts daily. The Brown Book is your ultimate resource on active chains across the USA and Canada. 

This is a must-have resource for anyone involved in retail and commercial real estate; from retailers looking to stay on top of what the competition is up to; to shopping center owners, investors, developers, facility/property managers, facility vendros and economic development professionals to brokers, appraisers, lenders, analysts and anyone looking for potential leads or simply to understand the current retail landscape and where it is going in the year ahead.  It is also useful to anyone that does business with retailers or restaurant chains. Find out about new concepts long before they ever arrive in your hometown!