At SCN, we’ve had a period of ‘community’ since our last issue. We spent time with SCA Property Group – this month’s Cover Story. Both Anthony Mellowes (CEO) and Sid...

This article could set benchmarks for Community Marketing! NorthWest Shopping Centre in Auckland, NZ has moved into the community with a passion. The article is required reading for Marketing Managers...

 AMP CAPITAL SHOPPING CENTRES Mia Bangura has been appointed as National Digital Marketing Manager. Mia has most recently been with The GPT Group, where she was the Digital Content Manager...

There’s a whole new strategy for developing the food and beverage offer in Mini Gun centres. Francis Loughran takes us inside the Mini Gun food and beverage world. Typically, the...

Five years ago, Woolworths spun off a significant part of its property portfolio into a listed REIT called Shopping Centres Australia Property Group. The Group now owns some 86 centres,...

You walk into a centre; what do you see? How the space around you presents will influence your mood. Everything from the columns, the texture of the floor, the lighting,...

You might find this difficult to believe, but there is a move afoot to legislate for free parking in shopping centres for retail workers. The issue has incredibly wide implications....

If you’ve got a department store that looks like it could be on the way out, don’t worry about filling the space! Tony Quinn has lots of options – after...

Ian Ringrose recently joined the Large Format Retail Association Study Tour of Osaka and Tokyo in Japan. Are there lessons to be learned from a different type of retail in...

Another view on the changing nature of food and beverage in smaller centres and how they differ from their ‘Big Gun’ cousins. Innovation is a key and it’s easier in...

Core trading hours are anachronistic; so says Robert Speirs. Since their introduction some years ago, shopping habits have changed, as have lifestyles and even what we shop for. Speirs calls...

Investing in the future of business, especially retail, should be at the heart of our government’s economic strategy. The Australian retail sector has faced a dynamic of change during 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...

Here’s a view of the Mini Guns sector from an ‘outsider’. It’s a view of an ecomomist from some different angles. Quantium’s property division combines data science and artificial intelligence to...

‘Rich data’, ‘advanced shopper analytics’ and ‘virtual blue tooth beacons’. These are marketing terms unheard of just a few years ago. Ben Walker takes us into another dimension and heads...

Earlier this year, CBRE acquired Race Property, a Shopping Centre Management and Leasing company. The acquisition enhances CBRE’s Shopping Centre position in the marketplace and will undoubtedly see an expansion of its...

Everybody reading this who is involved with a shopping centre development wants and expects their project to be a winner, to shoot the lights out, win awards and deliver fabulous...

From demand for plant-based foods and flower power to the growth of innovative concept restaurants and all the ‘Instagram worthy’ meals in between, these are just some of the food...