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Multi Poland: Digital Integration positively impacts Retail Asset Value

Multi Corporation reflects on solutions that respond to the challenges arising from the development of e-commerce and changes in consumer purchasing behaviour. This includes fully digitizing operational processes: revenue management, communication between the centrer management with tenants, technical procedures, documentation … Continue reading

Katrin Bergsteiner is URW’s new Director of Finance Austria & Germany

Katrin Bergsteiner has more than 20 years of international experience as an executive and professional. In various business enterprises she built up a comprehensive financial expertise in important areas such as general finance, accounting, tax, financial planning & analysis or … Continue reading

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Sustainability

Given the global situation concerning climate change, it is evident that sustainability is more than an economic model of production. To this date across countries and industries, there is a common understanding that sustainable economic practices are the starting point … Continue reading

Mitiska Reim transforms Dutch retail convenience center

As part of the value-add programme, the floor plan and size of units have been optimized, increasing the gross leasable area (GLA) from 10,805 sq m to 11,670 sq m and lease contracts have been regeared. Two new non-food destination retailers, JYSK … Continue reading

Landsec announces Nike Unite Portsmouth at Gunwharf Quays

The new lease sees Nike upsize from its existing 796 sq m store at Gunwharf Quays to a 1,037 sq m space where it will create new in-and-out-of-store experiences that celebrate sport and the local community. The opening is scheduled for … Continue reading

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Chase The Right Numbers

By Matthew Burke Another Christmas period has come and gone–the craziness of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, last Saturday before Christmas, Boxing Day sales, New Year sales whirled around the pool of measurable data.  Omicron certainly created a few problems for retailers … Continue reading

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Anne-Kathrin Velten appointed as new editor in chief of ACROSS Magazine

Dear Reader, First of all, Happy New Year. I am delighted to be part of the European Placemaking Community in my new position as editor-in-chief of ACROSS. As a trained business editor, I have reported for various German-speaking and international media, primarily … Continue reading

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Frasers Group and H&M announce flagship stores at Clerys Quarter

Frasers Group plc will open the doors to its first Flannels flagship outside of the UK, at Clerys Quarter. Occupying 2,787 sq m on a 15-year lease, the are offering a vast collection of luxury fashion. H&M has chosen Clerys … Continue reading

Altera sells Utrecht retail park to abrdn

The retail park (11 units) on Kaap de Goede Hooplaan is fully let to tenants including Goossens, Hartog Wonen, Swiss Sense and X2O. It is part of the Utrecht home furnishing center (Kanaleneiland), which has extensive free parking right outside.  … Continue reading

Westland welcomes Peek & Cloppenburg back to Belgian market

The fashion retailer makes a comeback to the Belgian market with currently 150 stores in 16 European countries, employing around 15,000 people. “We are looking forward to being back in Belgium by autumn 2022. The renewed Westland Shopping Center in … Continue reading

Neinver’s entire Polish portfolio receives BREEAM certification

Factory Gliwice earned a “Very Good” rating in asset performance and was certified “Excellent” in asset management thanks to the strict sustainability criteria introduced in the center’s management model.  “We believe that making the right environmental decisions helps improve the … Continue reading

Altera appoints Jeroen Post as Asset Manager Retail

Jeroen Post (31) has taken up his duties as Asset Manager Retail with effect from 1 January 2022. He joins Altera from Wereldhave, where he worked for several years as Leasing Manager. Prior to that he worked at BNP Paribas … Continue reading

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Landsec announces new Managing Director Remco Simon

Remco Simon joins Landsec from St Modwen where he was Managing Director (Strategy and Corporate Development). With over 15 years’ experience in international real estate capital markets, Remco has also held roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Kempen & … Continue reading

FCR buys two specialty stores in Lügde and Zeithain

The well-established store in Lügde, a town of 10,000 inhabitants in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, was built in 2004 on an area of around 15,000 sq m and has a sales area of around 6,400 sq m and 180 … Continue reading

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LCP appoints Ben Chislett UK Head of Retail

Ben Chislett joins the company from Savills, where he was retail director for nine years, advising both retailers and landlords on their acquisition and disposal strategies. As a specialist in national retail agency, who was also previously a director at … Continue reading

Youseum enters German market at Westfield Centro

Bridging the digital and physical worlds, Youseum combines the fun of an offline experience with the reach of social media in a creative playground. In this social media immersive museum, visitors will be taken on a tour through rooms designed … Continue reading

Slovenia’s First Outlet Shopping Village Coming In 2023

The Fashion Outlet Slovenia will be located directly next to the motorway exit for Šentilj on the Austrian border in the north-east of Slovenia. It is only 30 driving minutes south of Graz, the second largest city of Austria. The … Continue reading

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Why outlets are the place for the independent retailer

By Christine Grace Buying with a conscience  More people are thinking about what they buy and where they buy it from–as the messages from international events, such as COP26, and figures like Greta Thunberg increasingly feed into public consciousness. Independent … Continue reading

Redevco appoints Marrit Laning as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer

Consequently, Thierry Cahierre, will succeed Marrit in the role of Co-head Client and Fund Management also reporting to CEO Andrew Vaughan. In this new capacity he will be Fund Director for the portfolios of one of Redevco’s key clients, representing  … Continue reading

Benko’s Signa acquires department store icon Selfridges

According to Signa, the acquisition will create one of the world’s leading department store groups–in 2019, sales of the combined portfolio of Signa and Central amounted to five billion euros, and are expected to increase to more than seven billion … Continue reading

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