Australia has mass-produced cars for decades, but that has all ended this year with the closure of Toyota’s Altona manufacturing facility on October 4, and the closure of Holden’s Adelaide plant on...
Luxury giants Bally and Harrolds opened their only Australian outlet stores at Birkenhead Point in August, alongside designers Coach and...
Harbour Town and Waterfront City were the former names for the retail, entertainment and leisure component of Melbourne’s Docklands development. Docklands was one of the largest property developments ever undertaken...
The fact that retail sales across Australia were ‘flat’ is a statistic. As a statistic, it’s undoubtedly true, but the reality is that retail sales were anything but flat...
Narellan Town Centre unveiled its $200-million expansion on Friday 4 August. The centre’s expansion included the opening of Target, H&M and more than 60 new specialty stores including...
Vicinity Centres and ISPT have unveiled the first major retail stage of Mandurah Forum’s $350-million transformation in WA’s growing Peel region...
The new-look Willows Shopping Centre owned by DWPF opened on 24 August with over 80,000 people movements across the opening four days...
Back in 2003, I had the good fortune to work on the David Jones Food Chain rollout. Unfortunately, it was before its time and the board saw fit to shut it down...
There’s a lot about food and hospitality in this issue; it’s forefront in our minds. Francis Loughran in this second of a two-part article looks at the global scene...
Once a guerrilla marketing tactic, pop-up stores are now deeply integrated in today’s retail landscape, becoming a core strategy for many brands...
Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, recently launched a new national counter-terrorism strategy, which has specific relevance to shopping centre owners and operators...
If the super neighbourhood centre of the future is to fulfil its potential and serve as the local community’s natural heart, to become a piece of social infrastructure in which the...
New research has highlighted that Australian millennial dads (aged 18-34) are a particularly different breed of dad compared to their older counterparts...
Over the past few months much has been written regarding employment law issues, and I would like to update retailers on the work ARA has been doing over the past few months...
Shopping centres across the country can now build a detailed view of their customers' shopping behaviour through shopper data captured in real time, overlaid with data analytics. This will help shopping centres improve centre loyalty, create better shopper and community engagement, and optimise sales for centres overall...
On 24 August Pacific Fair celebrated its 40th birthday with a doughnut giveaway for customers and a prize draw for 40 lucky finalists in a competition. In the lead-up to...
Jointly funded by Vicinity Centres and Perth Airport Pty Ltd, construction of the highly anticipated DFO Perth is underway with the centre due to open next year. With 120 specialty...
Global beauty giant SEPHORA has announced the next location for the stores continued retail expansion – opening its 11th Australian store in Westfield Bondi Junction in September. Adding to Sydney’s...
Mirvac Group has announced it has acquired the balance of East Village in Zetland and has entered into an agreement to acquire the proposed South Village Shopping Centre in Kirrawee...
Casuarina Square celebrates the opening of its new $8.7-million indoor food court with a One Day Shopping Festival Inspired by the natural environment surrounding Darwin, the new food court includes...
Find out who has moved, who has been appointed, promoted and to where and what position in the shopping centre industry! MOVED OR PROMOTED? EMAIL: EDITORIAL@SHOPPINGCENTRENEWS.COM.AU
David Jones announces plans to open a new retail food concept at Malvern Central, Melbourne in March 2018, delivering a premium food offering with an emphasis on convenience and quality...
On 24 August, Erina Fair kicked off a three-day festival to celebrate 30 years as the biggest shopping centre on the Central Coast. The birthday milestone was an opportunity to...
Cairns Central celebrated 20 years on August 26, hosting a family fun day with free kids’ entertainment, prizes, giveaways and of course birthday cake to celebrate its 20th birthday. NAIDOC...
The minimum 5-year term was one of the pillars of the New South Wales Retail Leases Act when it was enacted in 1994. It has now been repealed. New South Wales is now aligned with Queensland in the belief that the term of a retail shop lease does not need...
Eatertainment, as defined in the Oxford Dictionary, is “an experience which combines eating with entertainment; specifically the sector of the restaurant industry...
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...
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