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Are you ready for the 2018 Retail Realm?
Are you ready for the 2018 Retail Realm?
With the 2018 eftpos ARA Australian Retail Awards slowly approaching, retailers across the country have already started submitting their entries. The Awards this year are titled ‘The Retail Realm: thinking...
Integrated and mixed-use developments
Integrated and mixed-use developments
It can be argued that the retail environment is changing at a faster pace than ever before. Understanding what’s next for bricks-and-mortar retail is essential for cracking the code on...
Supermarkets and the ability to evolve en masse
Supermarkets and the ability to evolve en masse
Walk into the major supermarket that anchors your local shopping centre today, and it’s most likely a vastly changed environment than it was ten years ago. And the trends in...
Department Stores – revising business strategies
Department Stores – revising business strategies
Department stores, in the main, are having a tough time of it and have been for a few years now. In the US, the situation is worse than here with...
Positioning your project’s food and hospitality for the future
Positioning your project’s food and hospitality for the future
This is the second of a two-part article in which Francis Loughran explores the trends in food and beverage precincts in major shopping destinations around the world. In part one...
SCCA Marketing Awards: New award categories revealed
SCCA Marketing Awards: New award categories revealed
The SCCA Marketing Awards are being fine-tuned in order to ensure they match the ever-changing nature of Centre Marketing. Some really exciting changes have resulted after an external review was...
From the Publisher
From the Publisher
This edition’s Cover Story features AMP’s Bayfair Shopping Centre in the City of Tauranga, New Zealand. I went over there to visit the centre and met the team; what a...
Lendlease expands digital network
Lendlease expands digital network
Sally Harding shares with us the success story and growth of the in-house multimedia business across Lendlease’s 15 shopping precincts – enabling the retail business to curate and tailor out-of-home...
How to retain top talent
How to retain top talent
By Gough Recruitment Employees who move rapidly from employer to employer throughout their career are described as ‘job-hoppers’. Only a few generations ago, businesses considered job-hoppers a risk to avoid....
Holo… is it you we’re looking for?
Holo… is it you we’re looking for?
Suppose you could produce a hologram image of a handbag in mid-air, reach out to it and turn it around to examine it whole! The technology, according to Harold Perks...
Designing building wellness
Designing building wellness
If you’re happy at work, chances are you’ll produce more! It follows therefore that if the building you use – be it commercial, industrial, retail or residential – is healthier,...
Stockland Wetherill Park transformation
Stockland Wetherill Park transformation
The transformation of Stockland Wetherill Park received two wins at the 2018 PCA / Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation & Excellence awards, with the centre being named both Australia’s Best Shopping...
We need to ‘flip the model’
We need to ‘flip the model’
Shopping Centres of the future will switch their very fundamentals from tangible to abstract. Their very core will no longer be shops, merchandise and ‘stuff’, but experiential journeys, unique identities...
Volatility is the new black
Volatility is the new black
The Australian risk free rate has been rising since mid 2016 following a global trend. Bond yields, rate rises, cap rates – all heady stuff but the absolute core of...
Why Kerry Packer was the best food consultant I ever met
Why Kerry Packer was the best food consultant I ever met
Kerry Packer and Food Consulting? Not as far-fetched as you might think. It seems that the great man knew a lot about how we eat. Suzee Brain recounts her time...
The rise of the super-neighbourhood centre
The rise of the super-neighbourhood centre
According to Joanna Russell, increased design expectations have given rise to a new sub-sector in retail assets: the super-neighbourhood centre. Typically between 10,000m2 and 25,000m2 in retail area, super-neighbourhood centres...
Service standards – costing businesses
Service standards – costing businesses
Recent experiences with, and expectations of poor customer service are the primary reasons for decreasing consumer traffic counts to specific Australian shopping centres, precincts and stores. Poor service was also...
The Galeries reveals its hidden artistic ‘Layers’
The Galeries reveals its hidden artistic ‘Layers’
The Galeries is the ultimate lifestyle and cultural destination for fashion, food, art and music in the heart of Sydney. The Galeries as a keen benefactor of emerging Sydney artists and...
Ben Matthews, AMP Capital
Ben Matthews, AMP Capital
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 industry....
Food Fit For a Queen – New Global Dining Destination In Auckland’s CBD
Food Fit For a Queen – New Global Dining Destination In Auckland’s CBD
Future Food’s Francis Loughran’s projects and study tours takes him far and wide in search of the best food and the best brands when it comes to food.  Over the...
Truman Dare, Vicinity Centres
Truman Dare, Vicinity Centres
Vicinity Centres announced this week it has appointed Truman Dare as General Manager, Mixed-Use Development as part of its strategy to explore opportunities to create destinational centres.  This newly-created position...
Retail First partners with Share the Dignity
Retail First partners with Share the Dignity
There are over 100,000 Australian women and teenage girls who every month go without female sanitary products because they cannot afford them, due to homelessness, poverty and domestic violence situations....
The Press Hall, where service is fast and the food is good
The Press Hall, where service is fast and the food is good
Future Food’s Francis Loughran’s projects and study tours takes him far and wide in search of the best food and the best brands when it comes to food.  Over the...
Melissa Prpic, The GPT Group
Melissa Prpic, The GPT Group
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 industry....
The QVB celebrates 120 years
The QVB celebrates 120 years
One of Sydney’s oldest and most treasured shopping destinations, the QVB is celebrating 120 glorious years since first opening its doors in 1898. This building has seen it all from...
Vicinity’s DFO centres rebrand as sales grow
Vicinity’s DFO centres rebrand as sales grow
The Vicinity Centre owned DFO portfolio sales continue to soar as Australians flock to DFO centres. The popularity of outlet centres are reflected in the sales which are up 5% across the portfolio.  This...
Dexus’ ‘BIG change for small change’ supporting hospitals
Dexus’ ‘BIG change for small change’ supporting hospitals
Dexus continues to create ‘BIG Change for small change’ across Australia, supporting hospitals. Throughout August 2018, Dexus shopping centres nationally will host a one-day community event that aims to make a...
Belmont Forum donates benches for anti-bullying initiative
Belmont Forum donates benches for anti-bullying initiative
Most shopping centres have a program of upgrading mall furniture to the latest and greatest, so when Belmont Forum in Perth had old benches to give away they thought they could...
NAIDOC Week at Lendlease
NAIDOC Week at Lendlease
Across the industry many shopping centres have focussed their efforts on NAIDOC Week, solidifying that shopping centres are a very important platform to generate awareness and amplify the theme of NAIDOC Week....
Tyrone Dodds, HOYTS
Tyrone Dodds, HOYTS
At Shopping Centre News we believe retailers are the most important ingredient to create great shopping centres, so we want to profile retailers to our Shopping Centre News audience on...
Top 40 Most Valuable Australian Brands revealed
Top 40 Most Valuable Australian Brands revealed
What’s in a brand? Well, it turns out a whole lot. Shopping Centre News explores this new Australian study which measures brand equity – a measurement that is complex for most...
Jacqueline McKenzie, Vicinity Centres
Jacqueline McKenzie, Vicinity Centres
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 industry....

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