Scott David Malkin (born 1959) is the founder of Value Retail Plc[1] and co-owner of the New York Islanders professional hockey team.
[3] With Value Retail, he leveraged his experience in selling luxury goods and meshed it with the American outlet mall concept creating an alternative operating model to the traditional European shopping center.
[1] The fashion brands pay 12.5 per cent of annual turnover for the privilege of selling excess stock in one of their village outlet centers.
[1] As of 2014, Value Retail had nine "villages" in Europe near London, Milan, Munich, Dublin, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt.
[5] In October 2014, it was announced that Malkin and his former college roommate Jon Ledecky would purchase the New York Islanders professional hockey team from Charles Wang.