GUILDERLAND — Retail Group of America has a 52-lease package with Pyramid Management Group, which owns Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, for specialty French, Spanish, German, and British fashion brands.

These include Promod, Jennyfer, Cortefiel, Women’s Secret, New Yorker, Ziddy, Sergent Major, Suite Blanco and Lipsy, all of which are new fashion branded concepts to the United States.

Launching initially on both coasts, RGA plans to build a strong presence in major shopping malls across the country, according to a release from Crossgates Mall. Retail Group of America, the United States operating arm of Fawaz Al Hokair Fashion Retail, a global franchise leader based in Saudi Arabia, is pursuing retail and real-estate interests within the United States. With more than 70 fashion brand partners, the Al Hokair Group operates over 1,500 boutiques globally, the release said, including locations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, North Africa, the Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet republics), and in the U.S.