There has never been a more challenging time for physical retail. Everyone in the sector needs to work together to redefine and reinvigorate our high streets and shopping places.

On Thursday, 11 March, SES Spar European Shopping Centers, the owner and operator of S-PARK Kaposvár, opened a retail park in the Somogy region.

FİBA Commercial Properties, which owns, invests and manages globally shopping malls, offices, residential projects, hotel and cinema complexes, has been awarded “2021 Kincentric Best Employer” in Turkey.

Mallcomm announced that Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) will roll out the Mallcomm platform for centralized, real-time communications, operations management and tenant engagement at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD). URW develops and manages the commercial programs at both airports.

They had a good reason to celebrate in Ukraine on February 1, 2021: The Swedish company Ikea, the world’s largest retailer of furniture and household goods, opened its first store with an area of 5,000 sq m in the country in Blockbuster Mall in Kiev.

ECE Marketplaces wants to use the new luca app, which enables secure tracking of contacts via smartphone, at approximately 10,000 stores in its shopping centers across Germany. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Germany is also in favor of introducing the app. As do many large retailers such as Breuninger, Deichmann, KiK, and Thalia.

Reed Midem announced recently that Mipim in Cannes will take place on September 7 & 8, 2021 due to the pandemic.

“For us, a human-centric vision is one of the main values shaping our vision of the future for any shopping center we manage or will manage.”

Hines announced that outlet retail shopping centers in Russia, including Outlet Village Belaya Dacha, Outlet Village Pulkovo and The Outlet Moscow Arkhangelskoe, all demonstrated positive growth performance for 2020, despite the global pandemic.

Lend Lease Retail Partnership (LLRP), a fund managed by Lendlease, has announced the signing of Europe’s largest footwear retailer, Deichmann, at Touchwood Solihull, following the German brand declaring expansion plans to support British high streets amid the ongoing pandemic.

Interview with Philipp Keller from Lorey | Philipp Keller is the owner and managing director of Lorey Frankfurt. For 225 years, the well-known Frankfurt specialty store has been offering a diverse assortment for upscale tableware and cooking culture. Nextrade is an important B2B marketplace for the company to link stationary and online trade and thus to offer its customers great added values in the local store.

A convenient store with a wide range of products for everyday shopping will return to Piątkowo in Poznań.

Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate (Warburg-HIH Invest) has acquired Bernstein-Center, a mixed-use, non-discretionary retail quarter in the Bavarian town of Nittendorf. Located at Brunnenstrasse 1-3, the newly built quarter features a gross lettable area of around 6,500 square metres, as well as 48 underground car park spaces and some 110 outdoor parking spaces.

The EUR 300 million Etele Plaza developed by Futureal has received the occupancy permit. Therefore, the tenants can now start setting up their stores in Buda’s largest shopping centre. The environment friendly complex with a rentable area of 55,000 sq m will bring the next generation of plaza design to Hungary this September.

LabTech has announced the appointment of Jonny Perkins as Retail Asset Manager for its new 580,000 sq ft development, Hawley Wharf Camden, and LabTech’s other Camden holdings.

Hines has fully leased the retail space at its prime Calle Preciados 13 development in the heart of Madrid.

Kintyre, the Frankfurt and Berlin based investor and real estate platform, has announced the key appointment of Sebastian Mueller (44), to lead Kintyre’s newly founded Advisory business, and to join its senior management team.

Wowflow, a mobile-first collaboration and workflow solution for facility maintenance teams, has raised a €300 thousand pre-seed investment to speed up growth in the German-speaking markets.

Since its opening, the Centre has received more than 3 million visitors. In 2020, new premium and luxury brands such as Prada, Burberry, Armani, ECOALF and Furla, among others, opened its doors in the centre.

In a constant endeavour to modernise its retail portfolio, AG Real Estate is launching a brand-new quality service at City2, the largest shopping centre in the heart of Brussels. The capital’s urban shopping centre will offer MyBop interactive shopping and payment terminals to its customers.