Japanese global apparel retailer UNIQLO opened its doors at Perth’s Karrinyup Shopping Centre with an official ribbon cutting ceremony and Japanese drumming celebration to signify the event on Thursday 2 July....

Shopper Media today released findings from its latest ‘Media Multiplier Effect’ Shopper Study, confirming that using retail OOH in conjunction with television advertising will deliver greater efficiencies for brand and...

A landmark new luxury, premium retail and dining destination will commence opening this month, as part of the 80 Collins precinct development in the Melbourne CBD. The large-scale 100,000m2 site that...

In his regular column for Shopping Centre News, Francis Loughran of Future Food discusses some of the current challenges facing our industry and how food operators should use this next-normal...

At the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia, the news was flooded with hundreds of iconic Australian stores closing their doors. As the nation braced for the pandemic’s impact...

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...

The countdown is on at Vicinity Centre’s Ellenbrook Central with Kmart fans ready to welcome the much-loved Aussie retailer as it opens its doors next month. As part of the exciting new $63...

The Canopy – Lane Cove’s premier dining, food and beverage destination has officially opened to the public, offering a unique environment for the community and retailers to converge within a purpose-built...

Privately-owned property development company, MAB Corporation, unveils its latest retail development – Clyde North Lifestyle Centre. The new centre is now open for business with the recent opening of major retailers including...

A $2.1 billion transformation of the Eagle Street Pier and Waterfront Place precinct into Brisbane’s premium business and leisure destination is a step closer after Dexus lodged development plans with...

Australian retailers are facing the fight of their life in 2020. Consumer confidence slumped for a period, job losses have soared, and spending behaviour has been tipped on its head. But...

Selling is hard in the best of times, let alone at the tail-end of a pandemic and beginnings of a recession. Apart from a wave of competitors – many resorting...

Some three weeks ago,  Tony Dimasi reported  on the early results in visitation patterns evident from GapMaps analysis of personal mobility data as Australia’s shopping centres tentatively re-opened following the...

Retail industry advocate and veteran, Russell Zimmerman, is joining eftpos to support it to help Australian small and medium businesses reduce their costs in the COVID-19 rebuild. Zimmerman is the...

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...

Auckland’s most exciting new retail and hospitality precinct, Commercial Bay, officially opened its doors to the public on Thursday 11 June. Owner Precinct Properties’ CEO Scott Pritchard; Rt Hon, Jacinda Ardern,...

As we witness the gradual relaxing of restrictions placed on food operators state by state and an uncertain return to trading, one thing is certain – the food and hospitality...

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...

Shopper Media today released its EOFY Shopper Study findings, which reveal more than half (57%) of Australian shoppers are planning on snapping up a bargain in the end of financial year sales,...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

COVID-19. When it’s ‘over’, what will be the new norm? Will tenancies mixes be different? Will rents be reduced? How long will recovery take? Questions people in our industry are...

As coronavirus fears boosted grocery sales and the stockpiling of essentials, many local shopping centres experienced an unprecedented increase in foot traffic. Ben Walker of Shopper Media Group shares data...

The changes we are going to see are numerous and far ranging. But much of the commentary is conceptual, intellectual, theory based. But what about ‘specifics’ – hard hitting stuff,...

In less than four months, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned Australia’s supply chain and business processes upside down. This comes as social distancing practices underpin an unprecedented shift towards online...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and will have a lasting impact on how we do business. As shopping centres grapple with the immediate challenges of restoring shoppers’...

Food & Beverage (F&B) has been and will continue to be impacted enormously. Many restaurants, cafés, food court operators and specialised food outlets, will never open again and others will...

We’re in unchartered waters. This is an entirely ‘new’ situation. It’s never happened before. All valid statements – in the ‘macro’ sense. But in the ‘micro’ sense, it has previously...