Mini Guns have a lot to teach us because they are close to the people. Roughly speaking, there are about 14 ‘small centres’ to every Big Gun (many of course are smaller than the 6,000m2 level we start at). So almost all of us live close to a Mini Gun....

During the past two years, due to the pandemic, ‘figures’ and ‘rankings’ of retail sales had little relevance to performance. This year, it’s different. While the reporting period for Mini Guns (1 August 2021 – 31 July 2022) was still partially affected by COVID restrictions in some states (mainly NSW...

Some 130 odd centres submitted sales figures this year; not all Mini Gun centres are listed as some companies, understandably, withheld their stats. What we can say though is that, overall, the ‘Mini Gun’ sector has shown itself to be quite resilient. In many areas, as can be seen, the...

We report Mini Gun figures for the year. That in itself is somewhat remarkable! If we had said something along the lines – “the majority of owners/managers didn’t submit figures this year as a result of the COVID-19 situation and subsequent closure of some/all stores… etcetera, etcetera,” no one would...

We started reporting on Mini Gun centres in 2006. It was a sector of our industry dominated by Centro Properties Group; at that time, we featured some 95 centres, 40 of which were managed/ owned by Centro. Stockland had 10 so between the pair, they had more than half the...

Interesting that our Cover Story is about a ‘Mini Gun’ operator (SCA Property Group) and the sector’s figures are tabled in the same edition! The real story here lies in the very modern history of the sector. Very modern in our terms is 12 years – we began our Mini...

It’s Mini Guns time again and what an interesting field. It’s in the Mini Gun sector that more change occurs in ownership, development and management than in the other sectors (Little and Big Guns). Ten years ago, one company – Centro – controlled more than 40% of the sector; if...