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Further solidifying its position as the capital’s leading premium fashion and lifestyle outlet centre, London Designer Outlet in Wembley Park has signed further top brands, in deals that were mostly negotiated during the coronavirus lockdown. Police, in its first store in London, and NICCE, in its first stand-alone store, are amongst the top names set to join the line-up at the outlet centre in Wembley Park which has seen strong trading figures since the post-lockdown reopening in June.

The Supervisory Board of Vastned, the listed European retail property company focusing on ‘venues for premium shopping’, announces that it has reached the conclusion, jointly with CEO Taco de Groot, that Mr De Groot will step down as CEO as of 1 December 2020.

The appointments of Jon Hale and Mikel Barriola to the Group Board, joining existing Group Board Members Chris Lanksbury, Adrian Griffiths, Tim Partington and Michael Cottam, forms part of Chapman Taylor’s ongoing strategy for successfully transitioning the business leadership to a new generation and ensuring sustainable and successful international growth in the years to come.

RDI, the income focused UK Real Estate Investment Trust, is pleased to announce the disposal of the Schloss-Strassen Center, Berlin for €65.5 million to Benson Elliot, a UK-based private equity real estate fund manager.

Colliers announces the appointment of Tanja Tanczer, previously Senior Consultant in the company, as new Head of Retail. In her new role, she will be responsible for all retail activities of Colliers in Austria.

ECE is restructuring and as of January 1, 2021 will be an integrated group of companies in the real-estate and investment business, offering asset management, development expertise, investment management, and other full-service real estate services under one roof.

Recruitments, promotions and appointments…

Cadogan announces the appointment of Kate Neale as Sustainability Manager.

She will play a key role in the sustainability of the 93-acre Cadogan estate, working as part of asset management director Claire Barber’s team, and reporting into Steve Medway, Place Manager.   Kate has a decade’s experience working for landlords, developers and consultants on energy and environment management and sustainability projects. She joins Cadogan after four […]

The long-awaited offline event of the retail real estate market MAPIC Russia 2020 will bring together professionals and industry experts on September 16-18 at Crocus Expo.

MAPIC Russia is a great opportunity to meet finally with partners, tenants and landlords to determine the future prospects of the business and industry. Here you can find more effective solutions and lucrative offers, as well as solve the accumulated questions and problems. The events of the last half of the year showed how tremendously […]

Further solidifying its position as the capital’s leading premium fashion and lifestyle outlet centre, London Designer Outlet in Wembley Park has signed further top brands, in deals that were mostly negotiated during the coronavirus lockdown. Police, in its first store in London, and NICCE, in its first stand-alone store, are amongst the top names set to join the line-up at the outlet centre in Wembley Park which has seen strong trading figures since the post-lockdown reopening in June.

The destination has seen significant increases in key trading metrics in recent weeks. Footfall rose +40%, month-on-month, comparing August with July. Additionally, sales increased by +31%, month-on-month, across the same period. These results reflect the growing confidence of customers to return to physical shopping following the coronavirus lockdown. Further boosting the fashion choices at London […]

Peter Tonstad, CEO of Placewise (formerly Boostcom), announced the company’s name change, complete rebranding and the launch of its new website.

Placewise is the global leader in shopping centre property tech, serving more than 1,050 shopping centres, across 4 continents and 20 countries.  Placewise offers the only solution purpose-built for shopping centres from traditional regional and mega malls, to outlet centres and mixed-use developments. The company has been repositioned to better reflect the more comprehensive nature […]

400 MyAuchan stores in the entire Petrom network, in the next five years.

OMV Petrom, the largest energy company in Southeastern Europe, and Auchan Retail România, the subsidiary in Romania of Auchan Retail, one of the largest global groups in food retail, announce the agreement to extend their partnership for opening MyAuchan proximity stores in Petrom filling stations. The partnership brings together two of the brands renowned on […]

Grand-opening of new retail building on Naundorfer Street 46 with MUSTANG Jeans, NINA VON C. lingerie, and LINDT chocolate.

LINDT Chocolate opened on the 27.08.2020. Thursday the 27th of August finally arrived and LINDT chocolate, shortly after MUSTANG jeans and NINA VON C. opened its doors to the public in Schwarzheide-Mitte. The customers received various sweet surprises, who came numerous. Also due to the hygiene and safety regulations there were long lines in front of the newly opened shops, though the […]

The Supervisory Board of Vastned, the listed European retail property company focusing on ‘venues for premium shopping’, announces that it has reached the conclusion, jointly with CEO Taco de Groot, that Mr De Groot will step down as CEO as of 1 December 2020.

Vastned will start searching for a successor for the next phase that the company is entering. Reinier Walta, currently Vastned’s CFO, will act as interim CEO until a successor is appointed. Over the past nine years, Vastned has realised its transition to a high street property fund under the leadership of Taco de Groot. With […]

The appointments of Jon Hale and Mikel Barriola to the Group Board, joining existing Group Board Members Chris Lanksbury, Adrian Griffiths, Tim Partington and Michael Cottam, forms part of Chapman Taylor’s ongoing strategy for successfully transitioning the business leadership to a new generation and ensuring sustainable and successful international growth in the years to come.

The appointments of Jon and Mikel to the Group Board, joining existing Group Board Members Chris Lanksbury, Adrian Griffiths, Tim Partington and Michael Cottam, forms part of Chapman Taylor’s ongoing strategy for successfully transitioning the business leadership to a new generation and ensuring sustainable and successful international growth in the years to come. Since its founding in 1959, Chapman Taylor […]

RDI, the income focused UK Real Estate Investment Trust, is pleased to announce the disposal of the Schloss-Strassen Center, Berlin for €65.5 million to Benson Elliot, a UK-based private equity real estate fund manager.

The Disposal, which is in line with RDI’s strategic decision to exit its German retail portfolio, reflects a net initial yield of 6.6% assuming full purchaser’s costs and a 16% discount to the 29 February 2020 market value. The Disposal includes the transfer of the associated €62.0 million bank facility with a maturity date of […]

Dalton Park Outlet Shopping is delighted to announce that a new Morrisons store will open by the end of the year.

Work is underway to create a new look Morrisons store which will lead to the creation of 150 new jobs and provide essential community services. The news follows the opening of a Morrisons petrol station earlier this summer at the entrance to the scheme. Jerry Hatch, Centre Manager at Dalton Park, said: “We are delighted […]

The new location will service the Mid-Atlantic States and current accounts in PA, DE, MD, DC, VA & NC.

American Christmas, part of MK Illumination group of companies, opened up its MK Illumination USA office this summer with a full-time team relocating from New York to staff the new location. The team will be led by Dan Casterella (CE), Robert Soloff (President), Brian Cohen (Executive VP of Sales), and Paul Genova (Executive VP of […]

Colliers announces the appointment of Tanja Tanczer, previously Senior Consultant in the company, as new Head of Retail. In her new role, she will be responsible for all retail activities of Colliers in Austria.

Tanja Tanczer started her career at Colliers in 2017, she became Senior Consultant after only 2 years and was accepted as a member of the international Colliers EMEA Retail Core Team, in which numerous projects are handled on an international level and which offers valuable support to local clients who want to expand abroad as […]

ECE is restructuring and as of January 1, 2021 will be an integrated group of companies in the real-estate and investment business, offering asset management, development expertise, investment management, and other full-service real estate services under one roof.

The new ECE Group, led by Alexander Otto as Chief Executive Officer and Claudia Plath as Chief Financial Officer, will be responsible for the strategy and management of the Group as a whole. The two former divisions of Marketplaces (shopping centers) and Work & Live (residential, hotel, logistics, office) will become companies on their own. […]

Leasing of two large outlets in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic taken on Adelsheim.

Whether at the Brenner in South Tyrol or in Parndorf in Burgenland, whether in Selb in Upper Franconia, in Wadgassen in Saarland or in Bad Münstereifel near Cologne – twelve designer outlets, factory outlets, shopping centres and shopping malls are currently all placing the letting of their shop space in the hands of HASLINGER RETAIL […]

Festive decorative lighting provider, MK Illumination, will be participating in the first-ever Virtual Global RLI Awards 2020.

Although recent months have forced many live events to be postponed or even cancelled, RLI “pivoted” and on 3rd September 2020, will be hosting a virtual ceremony to pay tribute to the most visionary and innovative retail and leisure concepts from across the globe at the Global RLI Awards 2020. Festive decorative lighting supplier, MK Illumination, […]

The ACROSS Advisory Board is happy to announce its latest addition and welcomes Ben Chesser as its new member.

Having worked for over 10 years as a consultant for some of Europe’s largest retail brands, Ben Chesser founded Coniq in 2014 to make the advanced tools of the retail giants readily available to every business in the industry. With a clear mission to demystify technology, and to put the power back into the hands […]

Recruitments, promotions and appointments…

Jon Hale and Mikel Barriola Chapman Taylor Credit: Chapman Taylor The appointments of Jon and Mikel to the Group Board, joining existing Group Board Members Chris Lanksbury, Adrian Griffiths, Tim Partington and Michael Cottam, forms part of Chapman Taylor’s ongoing strategy for successfully transitioning the business leadership to a new generation and ensuring sustainable and successful international growth in the […]

In June 2020, the architect and “urban manager” (MSc) Kai-Uwe Reitmann joined the dual leadership system of ATP TLP Moscow.

The German expert, who has lived in Russia for many years, will lead the approximately 90 employees of the joint venture (2011) between ATP architects engineers and TLP Tsimailo Lyashenko & Partners alongside the engineer Vladimir Horton. Kai-Uwe Reitmann will replace the Austrian industrial engineer Karl Pein in the management duo. After five years with […]

GTC has appointed Grzegorz Strutyński to the position of Country Manager, Poland. He will be responsible for all activities taken by the Company in Poland.

Grzegorz Strutyński has led an outstanding career in senior management positions for major international real estate companies. Prior to joining GTC, Mr. Strutyński held the position of Commercial Director Poland for Globalworth, being responsible for leasing, asset management, marketing and project management.   Before that, and for five years, he held the position of Commercial Director […]

The Crown Estate announced that Linda Morant has been appointed to the newly created role of Chief Digital Officer, reporting directly into the Chief Executive and starting in September.

Linda has over 20 years of experience working with leading global companies to drive growth and transformation, including Microsoft and Nokia. Most recently, Linda served as Vice President, Downstream Digital at British Petroleum (BP). She has a broad range of expertise, with particular strengths in digital technologies and transformation, growth strategies, and sales and marketing […]

The remote-event already took place for the third time. Six top-class panelists tried to predict how the Covid-19 crise will change the industry. A big and prominent expert-audience followed the discussion.

In 2019, before the corona crisis, ACROSS – The European Placemaking Magazine” held the ACROS Retail Talks twice: once in Vienna and once in Cannes. The virus pushed this event series onto the internet, with its adapted name ACROSS Retail Talks Online. This event already took place for the third time in this format via […]

SES Spar European Shopping Centers, the market leader for shopping centres in Austria, opened the trend-setting ALEJA-Center in Ljubljana as a multi-functional shopping and leisure hot spot at the end of May 2020.

The iconic building is a further architectural highlight in the magnificent cultural capital, Ljubljana, thereby creating a new rendezvous for the city’s inhabitants. The characteristic design features continue into the public areas of the Food Court within the centre; the specially crafted furnishings were supplied by umdasch. Focus on gastronomy, leisure and experience inthe spirit of the times ALEJA has brought a multi-functional location […]

David McArthur has been appointed Head of Investment by The Howard de Walden Estate which owns 92 acres of London’s Marylebone.

Currently with Savills, David will join the business on September 21st. He will succeed Julian Best who is to become the business’s Executive Property Director when Simon Baynham retires from that post at the end of September. Announcing the appointment, Julian Best, commented: “David has more than a decade’s experience of working in the central […]

Hines grew one-man, namesake firm into a distinguished global brand.

Gerald D. Hines, founder and chairman of the preeminent real estate firm, Hines, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, August 23, 2020. Born in Gary, Indiana on August 15, 1925, he recently celebrated his 95th birthday. The news was announced today by his son, Jeffrey C. Hines, who has been running the firm as […]