Robina Town Centre partners with The Village Markets to host a Twilight Christmas Market
In an exclusive first, QIC’s Robina Town Centre and The Village Markets (TVM) have joined local forces to bring a festive Twilight Pop-Up Christmas Market to The Promenade on Thursday,...
Keeping the magic of Christmas alive in an ever-changing world
For more than 25 years, The Prop House has been creating Christmas magic in shopping centres, corporate foyers, entertainment precincts and restaurants. Earlier this year, Director Jano Kotzas and Senior...
Westfield celebrates WA Pride with LBTQI+ Santa photography
This year, Westfield Living Centres across Western Australia will celebrate PrideFEST 2022 for the first time, with a dedicated all-inclusive’ day of celebration and Santa Photography in support of Living...
Westfield launches Auslan Santa for Deaf and hard-of-hearing children this Christmas
Westfield today announced the launch of Auslan Santa, a pilot program offering children who use Auslan as their primary form of communication, the chance to share their Christmas wish list...
Christmas Q&A with Dave Gardner, Dec the Malls
This Q&A with Dave Gardner, Dec the Malls, forms part of a special Christmas feature first published in SCN’s Little Guns edition. What does Christmas mean to you? Although there are...
Kmart officially opens at Highpoint
Highpoint has officially welcomed Australia’s most in-demand retailer, Kmart, as the latest brand to join its growing list of majors. On Wednesday, 1 December 2021, the doors opened shortly after...
Marrickville Metro celebrates Christmas with sustainability and community in mind
Marrickville Metro is embracing an exuberant, abundant Christmas filled with trees, decorations and, of course, the real Santa himself. This year’s new Santa set and Christmas decorations have been designed...
Christmas Q&A with Tim Clarkson, Chas Clarkson
This Q&A with Tim Clarkson from Chas Clarkson forms part of a special Christmas feature published in SCN’s Little Guns edition. What does Christmas mean to you? Christmas is the...
Christmas Q&A with the team at Visual Inspirations
This Q&A with the team at Visual Inspirations forms part of a special Christmas feature published in SCN’s Little Guns edition. What does Christmas mean to you? Christmas to the...
QICGRE unwraps ‘Love From Christmas’ celebrations across its retail portfolio
This Christmas, QIC Global Real Estate (QICGRE) will rekindle time-honoured festive traditions (and introduce a few new ones too) as it unwraps its uplifting ‘Love from Christmas’ campaign. On 4...
Christmas arrives at Chadstone – The Fashion Capital
The bells are ringing at Chadstone as The Fashion Capital welcomes visitors to come together this Christmas. With more celebrations than ever before, the festive spirit has come alive as...
Maitland Christmas storybook experience unveiled
Maitland Riverside Plaza has marked the beginning of their festive season by launching a free storybook experience of the children’s classic tale of The Night Before The Night Before Christmas...
Lakeside Joondalup unwraps Perth’s biggest and most immersive Christmas
Lakeside Joondalup Shopping City in Perth reveals its biggest Christmas offering ever. With two months of activities, the festive season kicked off on November 6 with a theatrical parade featuring a...
Shopping centres prepare to welcome back all customers and COVID-safe Santa
Shopping centres and retailers across the country have all been affected by various restrictions and lockdowns, but as we start to hit our vaccination targets, The Shopping Centre Council of...
A Santa to suit all locations: the essential service for Christmas magic
Rosalind Palisi from Straight Down the Line Promotions has more than 25 years experience specialising in shopping centre activations and shares with us the importance of creating Christmas magic. For children...
September retail trade figures show promise for Christmas
Australian retail turnover fell 1.5% in September 2020 compared to August, seasonally adjusted, according to preliminary retail trade figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Turnover rose...
Scentre Group offers customers a COVID-safe Christmas in-store
Scentre Group’s latest customer update announces the company’s intentions to make a COVID-Safe Santa experience available to all customers across its Westfield Living Centres that will reflect the relevant health...
Community to Deck The Mall at Central West Shopping Centre
Christmas is bound to look a little different this year, so to celebrate the festive season while acknowledging the difficult year we’ve had, Central West Shopping Centre will be collaborating...
What will Christmas look like in shopping centres this year?
Kerry Stewart, Founder and Managing Director of Dovecote Design has a passion for transforming commercial spaces into Christmas destinations and creating unique visual experiences. In this article written for SCN, Kerry discusses...
Stockland’s Christmas campaign returns forgotten Aussie reindeer
Stockland has once again challenged conventional Christmas marketing with its newest creative campaign for the festive season, launching the heartwarming animated film ‘The Story of Dunder’. The campaign focuses on the...
Enjoy an ‘Infinite’ Christmas at Market City
Shoppers are in for an extra treat this festive season with the launch of ‘Christmas Infinity Rooms at Market City’ – a one of a kind, immersive in-centre installation where...
Grand Plaza – making end of year festivities more inclusive
Shopping centres are usually busy with crowds of people particularly around the festive season which can be a deterrent for some shoppers. Sensory events offer a more quiet experience within...
Shopping Centre Christmas marketing trends
With Christmas sales to exceed $50 billion this year in Australia, marketers across the country have been very focussed on how their centres can get a slice of the big...
Retail sales to exceed $50 billion this Christmas
The National Retail Association (NRA) has predicted Australian shoppers to splurge $50 billion on retail sales this Christmas with personalisation named as one of the highlighted trends for gifts. It will...
Charlestown Square launches biggest shopping centre Santa set the Hunter region has seen to date
GPT’s Charlestown Square has partnered with internationally celebrated installation artist, director, and designer – James Dive of Scoundrel Projects – launching the biggest shopping centre Santa set the Hunter region has...
Clicks and Mortar: Which trends are changing Christmas in 2018?
Over 125 years at Chas Clarkson, we’ve witnessed a lot of changes in the way shopping centres present Christmas. We now design, produce and install Christmas decorations for approximately 60%...
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