Industry Shuffles – August 2018
Industry Shuffles – August 2018
AMPCSC Andrew Falson has joined the business in the role of General Manager, Design and Delivery. Georgia Everette has been promoted to the role of Divisional Marketing Coordinator(QLD) for assets...
The democratisation of food
The democratisation of food
In the first of a two-part article, Susanne Pini explores the effects new trends in the consumption of food and beverage have on retail outlets, the retail scene in general...
Bayfair Shopping Centre
Bayfair Shopping Centre
Tauranga is New Zealand’s fastest growing city. At the heart of its prime residential strip sits the AMP Capital managed Bayfair Shopping Centre, the Number 1 performing centre in the...
The changing retail landscape
The changing retail landscape
With retail sales somewhat stagnant, major department stores posting poor figures and other majors downsizing, one could be forgiven for thinking it’s all ‘doom and gloom’. However, Tony Quinn sees...
South Australian Retail Trading Bill 2018
South Australian Retail Trading Bill 2018
It’s hard to believe that South Australia still clings to outdated laws governing retail trading hours. It beggars belief that the South Australian public still have to follow the dictates...
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 ...
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 reveal...
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 ev...
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...
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