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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.

A look at Australia: A “Hospitality Mindset” to drive sales and deliver positive experiences in spite of Covid-19.

“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.”

Is the covid-19 crisis making the placemaking industry smarter and how covid-19 is changing the more nimble? What international industry experts have to say about it.

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.

Union Investment and Sierra Germany launched their latest edition of First Store by Alexa–a campaign by Berlin’s well-known shopping center Alexa. Ralf Schaffuss, Head of Retail Asset Management of owner Union Investment Real Estate, and Jens Horeis, General Manager of Center Management company Sierra Germany, talk about their latest innovation of the competition.

Most experts in the European placemaking industry have adopted a consciously positive stance with regard to the recently commenced business year.

The ACROSS Advisory Board has its say. On February 25, the ACROSS Retail Talk on “Outlook 2021” took place. 16 members of the ACROSS Advisory Board discussed the expectations and perspectives of the placemaking industry in an exciting year. A large, prominent expert audience followed the online event.

“The challenge in 2021 is to get back to business at a full speed, understanding that unemployment has gone up considerably in some countries, that the power spend of our customers might have suffered and that, disappointingly but not surprisingly, too many governments in this world do not seem to have control over the pandemic situation.”

Multi recently published its Pan European Customer Monitor + Covid-19 Survey. For Head of Research Mariam Hussain, the most positively surprising result was that 70% of visitors surveyed indicated that shopping centers are valuable places to spend time in and will continue to be especially once the pandemic is over.

Although empty shop windows have always been part of running a shopping center, there are more around than most center managers might like. The good news is that they are opportunities to create bite-sized experiences that support the trend towards “shoppertainment”.

Recruitments, promotions and appointments…

“Retailers on average seem very happy that shopping centers are going down the path of fully serving them in the digital channels as they are doing in the physical space.”

Retail parks have been the best performing and most resilient retail format in Belgium prior to and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in a slight compression in yields by 25bps since the beginning of the year according to new research by CBRE commissioned by Mitiska REIM.