BIG Shopping Centers Ltd. ("BIG") - headquartered in Herzelia, Israel - was founded in 1994 by Yehuda Naftali with the vision of developing American styled open-air shopping centers in Israel. Today, the company operates in three countries - Israel, the United States and Serbia - where it has ownership (entire or partnership) in 58 projects, 51 of them being operational shopping centers and 7 under development. BIG is a publicly traded company, traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, and listed in the TA 100 Index (top 100 companies in the stock exchange). The company was traded on the TASE on May 2016 at over $700 million, and it's total balance sheet assets on December 31, 2015 was at $1.995 billion.
