2020

centre:mk, one of the UK’s top 10 shopping centres, yesterday reunited shoppers with their favourite brands as over 80 stores re-opened including Primark, Next and TK Maxx.

He was appointed CEO of Swiss Prime Site Immobilien and member of the Executive Board of Swiss Prime Site

The Supervisory Board of IMMOFINANZ extended the Executive Board appointments for COO Dietmar Reindl and CFO Stefan Schönauer for a period of five years as of 1 May 2021, i.e. to 30 April 2026.

On June 1, 2020 Claudia Karschti took over responsibility for Human Resources at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Germany. Previously Claudia Karschti was with Yum! Restaurants International as Head of People & Culture KFC for the region D-A-CH/Denmark and member of the management board. Her earlier positions include HR Business Partner at Fressnapf Holding and HR Manager at Santander Consumer Bank. Claudia Karschti received her diploma in social sciences with a focus on economic sociology and economic psychology at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

The new vehicle will target retail assets in London and in the UK regions with a view to acquiring £250m worth of assets, building on Maya Capital’s expertise in the commercial office market.

RED Construction has been awarded a 28 week £7m contract at Angel Central Shopping Centre, Islington.

VIA Outlets – Europe’s fastest growing owner-operator of premium fashion outlet destinations – has, as of today, with Freeport Lisboa Fashion Outlet being the last one in line, reopened all closed and semi-closed centres in its eleven-strong portfolio. While the company was advised to temporarily close the majority of its outlets by local authorities in March and April in the wake of Covid-19, three were able to remain open throughout.

Klépierre, the European leader in shopping malls, announces that Julien Goubault has been promoted to General Secretary of the Group.

The 36-year old is the Center Manager of Forum 1 Salzburg by SES Spar European Shopping Centers.

Plans have been unveiled ahead of the reopening of London Designer Outlet, the capital’s leading fashion and lifestyle outlet centre, and wider retail at Wembley Park, one of the largest and most all-embracing urban development’s currently underway in Europe. Retail will start to open from Monday 15 June, in keeping with the Government’s lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Restaurants and Cinema will follow Government advice and plan to open as soon as possible.

The certifications are part of the “Shop Safe, Stay Safe” programme, an initiative the company has launched throughout its European portfolio. Neinver is committed to minimising the risk of Covid-19 transmission in the centres it operates

Mario C. Bauer has drummed up an investor group to save Vapiano.

European Outlets – back to normal? European outlet experts on the current situation and how they see and manage the future!

This year’s Expo Real will not take place in its traditional format. Messe München will instead provide a venue for the real estate industry by launching its Expo Real Hybrid Summit.

Boostcom, the world’s leading proptech supplier for shopping centres, has recently strengthened its global management team with four new hires, as retail
reopens after Covid-19.

Hines has released new details of ‘The Trinity Quarter’, a landmark hotel and retail redevelopment in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark.

SIGNA will also begin to use communication formats on various channels and levels to provide information about the project, e.g. on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram under the identity “NOT WITHOUT YOU”, on a newly designed homepage at and with various events and activities.

FitForCommerce, a boutique omnichannel and digital consultancy, announces the appointment of Gary Burrows to the FitForCommerce Malls & Meeting Places practice as its Managing Director.

NEINVER recently reopened its four Greater Madrid and Barcelona outlet centres in Spain, thus resuming operations across all its retail portfolio in Europe.

On Solutions, part of Balfin Group, in collaboration with Qivos, received the Gold Award in the category of “Best Partnership Initiative” in Loyalty Awards 2020, for providing customer experience and achieving customer engagement, in four different companies, under one loyalty scheme, the Happy Program.

For Ingka Group, sustainability is at the heart of everything it does. Its ambition is to inspire and enable 1 billion people to live a better everyday life at home within the limits of the planet by 2030.