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NEINVER has obtained Zero Waste certification for 94% of its centers in Europe, making it the first company in the shopping center sector to receive this acclaimed accreditation from the multinational TÜV Rheinland for virtually its whole portfolio across Europe. With this certification, NEINVER cements its position as a leader in sustainability and deepens its commitment to the circular economy.

Many customers find it very pleasant when they see an area with a carefully selected product range where they can discover new products! Like online stores, which already make a pre-selection, department stores take up this idea and expand these specific areas enormously, says Anita Stampfl, Special Projects Managerin at HBB Centermanagement in this Q&A on Curated Spaces.

“Shopping centers shape the city’s identity and, at best, pay dividends for the municipality’s image,“ states Uwe Seidel. The Managing Partner at Dr. Lademann & Partners on the role of shopping centers for society and what tools are essential to monitoring these changes within the respective community.

“The whole industry needs to prepare to be relevant for the unforeseeable future,” states Peter Tonstad, CEO of Placewise, in his latest PropTech column. According to him, shopping centers have the opportunity to do better by their local communities, by simply “doing good”. Introducing digital solutions is a very helpful tool to do so.

VIA Outlets has been awarded a Level 2 ESG Rating by global ratings firm Fitch, the second highest achievable. ‘Sustainable Fitch’ is the agency’s integrated sustainability and societal analytical framework, introduced last year, to deliver a more holistic quantitative and qualitative assessment of a company’s ESG performance for investors and management.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European retail sector has been experiencing one crisis after another. As the pandemic faded, consumers and retailers finally hoped for relief, but the war in Ukraine immediately followed, causing further crises.

Mauro Abruzzese is an Italian retail and shopping center expert who develops projects in Kosovo for OCM International. In this interview, the CEO and Managing Director explains how the individual SEE markets are developing, what makes them different, what the local consumers are like, and what investors should consider before entering the market.