WeChat Pay solution creates new Chinese market opportunities
COVID-19 has seen a surge in digital payments but for China, digital payments like AliPay and WeChat have been around for many years utilising new technologies and the power of...
Joe Furfaro, SCA Property
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
GPT retail assets valuations reduced by $467.7 million
The coronavirus pandemic has had a large impact on retail trade figures and its flow on effect also means lower asset valuations across retail property as rental conditions and the...
Sydney-based private investor behind $21m Coburg Hill deal
A Sydney-based private investor with an overseas partner has outlaid $21.3 million for a Woolworths anchored shopping centre at Coburg on a passing yield of 6%. The strata-titled Coburg Hill Shopping...
Shopping centre owners and SME retailers making progress under Code of Conduct
It’s been more than two months since Australia’s national retail groups and shopping centre landlords united in a call for a set of retail leasing principles with the implementation of...
Stockland launches ‘Deliver on Demand’ Shopping Service
In a first for shopping centres in Australia, an innovative new personal shopping service – Deliver on Demand – has launched at select Stockland centres in Queensland and New South...
Western Sydney’s newest shopping destination – ECQ opens to the community
At long last, western Sydney’s new shopping, dining and entertainment destination is here. On Wednesday 10 June, after a pandemic-related false start, Eastern Creek Quarter (ECQ) opens to the community. Frasers...
Yamanto Central on track to open in 2021
Yamanto Central is currently under development and on track to open in the first half of 2021. The centre will set a new benchmark for retail in Queenland’s Ipswich-Brisbane corridor. Despite...
Canberra Centre brings joy to local community
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the team at QICGRE’s Canberra Centre has been working hard to bring a little joy to the local community, as part of a nationally...
Darren Krakowiak, CRE Success
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Haben’s Croydon Central redevelopment opens
Haben Property Fund recently opened the refurbished Croydon Central shopping centre to excited shoppers amid COVID-19 on the 20 May. The opening of stage one of the centre, which is located 28km...
As physical doors close, digital doors open
More Australian consumers than ever are shopping online and reporting high levels of ‘intent to continue to use’ – so, what does this mean for retail stores of the future?...
Vicinity Centres raises $1.2 billion to address COVID-19 impacts
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity, ASX:VCX) has today successfully completed a fully underwritten placement of fully paid new stapled securities (‘New Securities‘) to institutional and professional investors, at the offer price of...
Sekisui’s $1.5 billion masterplan vision for Ripley Town Centre
Sekisui House Australia, is challenging traditional conventions of masterplanned communities by elevating the standard of economic, social and environmental sustainability to create the $1.5 billion masterplan vision for Ripley Town...
Consumers feeling more optimistic and returning to experiences and shopping in person
Scentre Group has released a series of insights from its Westfield iQ customer research platform exploring customer sentiment and what people are most looking forward to as they safely resume...
Shuffles May 2020
STOCKLAND Sergio Carless has been appointed the Operations Manager for Stockland Cairns. Sergio has an extensive background in the role of Centre Operations Manager, and is a welcome addition to...
David Jones announces store closures due to profit slump
South African Woolworths Holding Limited, owner of David Jones (‘DJ’) provided a trading update yesterday. In another shake up of major stores, the group announced that due to the slump in...
Lendlease promotes reconciliation through its shopping centres
Coinciding with National Reconciliation Week (27 May – 3 June), Lendlease-managed shopping centres across Australia will start opening each day of trade with an Acknowledgement to Country to Traditional Custodians....
Lyn Gray, Colliers International
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Stockland launches new community hub – Belong by Stockland
Stockland has a long and successful track record creating sustainable and well-connected communities where people can live, work and shop, but also recognises that it’s been more challenging for people...
CBD GUNS 2020
The usual 12-month reporting period for SCN's annual CBD Guns runs from 1 April to 31 March. This year, we changed it to 1 March 2019 to 29 February 2020. We did this as the COVID-19 situation led to a number of variances across the nation during the month of March...
Melbourne’s Box Hill to receive a 10-year transformation
Vicinity Centres has unveiled proposed plans to revitalise the heart of Box Hill’s CBD, to create a bustling new town square and mixed-use precinct with new residential, commercial and retail...
Burwood Brickworks donating urban farm produce
The pandemic is not stopping the rooftop urban farm at Burwood Brickworks in Melbourne from producing top quality fruit and vegetables. Under a new partnership between the shopping centre, acre...
Precision Group launches WELCOME BACK campaign
Precision Group launched their WELCOME BACK campaign last week to celebrate the reopening of more and more retail stores and to ‘welcome back’ both customers and retailers to their five...
Thinus Keeve, COLES GROUP
Thinus is Coles Group’s Chief Property & Export Officer and has considerable commercial experience in the retail, strategy and liquor sectors. Thinus has held various senior leadership roles at Coles...
Nick Patrick, SOUL ORIGIN
Nick is the National Leasing and Development Manager for Soul Origin. For the past 13 years, he has worked in the retail property industry for both landlords and retailers. His...
Damian Keogh AM, HOYTS GROUP
Damian is the President and CEO of The HOYTS Group, a role he has held since 2014. As part of the Chinese owned Wanda Group, which owns 12% of the...
Carlos Antonius, CHATIME GROUP
Carlos joined the Chatime Group in June 2015 and is charged with overseeing the Australian operations for the Chatime and Goobne brands. Carlos has more than 25 years’ experience in...
Martin Matthews, BRAND COLLECTIVE
Martin Matthews is the CEO of Brand Collective, which owns and operates iconic Australian and international brands including Superdry, Shoes & Sox, Hush Puppies, and Clarks and Volley. Martin has...
The new normal retailers accelerate physical and digital integration
As retailers gradually begin to re-open their stores, many are doing so with initiatives that converge the digital and physical channels in innovative ways. This article examines how Scentre Group...
Richard Facioni, ALCEON GROUP
Richard Facioni leads Alceon Group’s principal investment team, with a particular focus on retail and consumer investments. He is an investor in and director of an extensive portfolio of operating businesses,...
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