Benjamin Fuest follows Uwe Hildebrand as Chief Sales Officer on October 1, 2020.

The Crown Estate announced that Juliet Davenport OBE has been appointed to its Board with effect from 1 September 2020.

An inflatable aqua park attraction opened at intu Lakeside this weekend, further expanding the popular destination’s new leisure offer even further.

The MIMCO Capital group is continuing its real estate investments in Germany with the recent acquisition in asset deal of two retail assets in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Saxony-Anhalt, and Plauen, Saxony, on behalf of its “Everest One SICAV-RAIF” fund.

Sinsay, the Polish LPP brand signed with Colosseum Mall to open its flagship store in Bucharest, thus bringing an unique concept to the Romanian market. With a surface of 2000 sq m, the store from Colosseum Mall is going to be the largest LPP store in Romania, Sinsay branded.

ESTAma announces the sale of a Combi supermarket in the Münsterland city of Cloppenburg (Germany) to Synvest German Real Estate Fund.

The franchise chain Barrique has been sharing its passion for good food and drinks with its customers for more than 40 years. Now, this concept is finally coming to Hamburg.

After openings in cities like Paris, London and Milan, the first Five Guys restaurant at Graben 30 in Vienna will open its doors in autumn 2020.

The joy of lingering and shopping at the point of sale has been drastically curtailed by the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. The umdasch UV-C Fitting Room enables customers to try clothes, shoes & Co without worries. The changing room disinfects itself and the garments inside automatically via UV-C light.

Coniq’s Summer ‘20 release of its Total Customer Engagement Platform finally brings the digital and physical worlds together into one unified tool.

The German outlet centre, managed by Neinver since 2017, has recorded five solid years of growth in sales and foot traffic. Last year, the centre attracted close to 2 million visitors.

Retail investment volumes for 2020 are expected to exceed those of 2019, despite Covid-19, a new report from Savills Aguirre Newman suggests.

Citycon continues to show positive development in footfall despite the extraordinary circumstances following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Summer sale started at Nailloux Outlet Village on July 15 and will continue throughout the summer holidays until Tuesday, August 11.

The powerful and rigorously realized concept of ALEJA shopping center in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, which was integrally designed with BIM by ATP, has created the perfect platform for around 80 shops.

Union Investment Real Estate GmbH is reinforcing its senior leadership team by bringing on board Michael Bütter (50), a respected real estate manager with many years of industry experience.

Ceetrus announces additions to its Board of Directors and Management at a global and local level, with the appointment of two new members. Antoine Grolin, 44, an international real estate specialist, has just been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ceetrus. On a national level, Séverine Bodard, with 20 years of experience in management, development and transformation of real estate, steps in as Director of Ceetrus Portugal.

Apricot, an independent British brand has opened the doors to its first West Midlands store at intu Merry Hill. The new 2,500 sq ft store will enhance the centre’s female fashion offering.

Queensberry announced a landmark letting at its Metquarter asset. It has obtained planning permission that will allow Liverpool media, music and performing arts institution LMA to open a brand new state of the art teaching campus at the repurposed shopping centre.

Neinver has successfully completed BREEAM In-Use recertification of all its centres in Spain, Italy, Poland and France.

Supermarket Income REIT, the UK supermarket real estate investment trust providing secure, inflation-protected, long income from grocery property in the UK, announces the acquisition of the Tesco Extra in Newmarket, Suffolk, from Standard Life Pooled Pension Property Fund for £61.0 million (excluding acquisition costs), reflecting a net initial yield of 4.6%.

Leading management and technology specialist for parking and visitor insight, GroupNexus, has identified that during the first week in July, motorway service station visits have now surpassed pre lockdown figures from the same period four months ago, showing an increase of 4.46%, whilst dwell time has decreased by 14% to 30mins, compared to pre-pandemic. [1]