The future of Australian retail: How technology is transforming the industry
The future of Australian retail: How technology is...
Technology has developed at breakneck speed in the last five years alone. What was only science fiction until a few years ago is quickly becoming a reality. And it’s safe...
Lendlease to deliver EV charging across all retail and office precincts nationwide
Lendlease to deliver EV charging across all retail...
Lendlease is set to deliver electric vehicle (EV) charging stations nationwide across its key retail and office precincts, boosting its current infrastructure to meet growing customer demand. Lendlease will install...
Technology
Vicinity Centres
Justin Mills
drone delivery
Distribution
fulfilment strategy
Data Science
Insights
Distribution and fulfilment strategy – using tech to lead the way
Distribution and fulfilment strategy – using t...
In this article published in SCN’s November issue, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, Justin Mills discusses Vicinity’s partnership with drone delivery company Wing, how their ‘in-house’ Data Science and Insights Team...
Unlocking income and the next generation of retailers
Unlocking income and the next generation of retail...
Technology platform anyspaces.com has seen tremendous growth year on year with start-up businesses seeking short term spaces, and now established businesses are getting on board as well. Activation Specialist, Drew...
Technology
Innovation
Vicinity Centres
partnerships
Grant Kelley
Justin Mills
Taronga Ventures
Jonathan Hannam
Vicinity to capture world’s best real estate innovation with RealTech fund investment
Vicinity to capture world’s best real estate inn...
Vicinity Centres has announced a new relationship with Taronga Ventures, Asia’s leading technology and innovation investor, that will connect one of Australia’s largest retail property groups with technology that is...
CBRE
Technology
data
Pathzz
Jason San Diego
Matt Copus
TownCentre Victoria Point
Next Generation
Location Analytics
Are you using analytics to inform your investment decisions? Or are you flying blind?
Are you using analytics to inform your investment ...
This article prepared by Jason San Diego, Founder and CEO of Pathzz and Matt Copus, Head of Retail Analytics, CBRE, was first published in the latest issue of SCN –...
shopping centres
Technology
media
data
Shopper Media Group
digital advertising
out of home media
Shopper
Shopper Media Group rebrands to Shopper and gets closer to their customers
Shopper Media Group rebrands to Shopper and gets c...
Shopper Media Group has rebranded to Shopper, strengthening its hold in retail out of home (OOH) media. Shopper’s out-of-home advertising screens are positioned in shopping centres across Australia. The group...
Smart people flow solutions for shopping centres of the future
Smart people flow solutions for shopping centres o...
Our world is becoming increasingly more connected. Smart technologies have never been more prevalent in our daily lives – our smart cars drive themselves and our smart homes talk to...
Oakleigh Central’s new technology gives vision impaired greater independence
Oakleigh Central’s new technology gives vision i...
Vicinity Centres has announced the introduction of innovative new technology that will help customers with vision impairment navigate shopping at Oakleigh Central in Melbourne’s south east. The Australian-developed wayfinding system,...
Technology
Bloomfield technology
AI
COVID Safety
Bloomfield Group
Thor Bloomfield
Colin Wilson
Key Business Advisors
Sadik Ardolli
Chef’s Hat
Tracy Atherton
Jackalope Hotel
How AI technology is shaping lifestyles of the future
How AI technology is shaping lifestyles of the fut...
As Founder and Director of the Bloomfield Group, Thor Bloomfield’s vision to create a safer, more sustainable environment is collectively approached with his purpose-driven business portfolio. As a post-pandemic norm...
GapMaps launches free tool to help Victorians find essential services within 5km
GapMaps launches free tool to help Victorians find...
With Stage 4 lockdown restrictions in place across metropolitan Melbourne, people are only allowed to go out and travel up to 5 km for necessary goods and services like supermarket, pharmacy,...
Coles&co digital channel goes live
Coles&co digital channel goes live
The delivery of weekly printed catalogues to customer letterboxes has been a feature of the Australian supermarket shopping experience for decades, however customer trends both in Australia and internationally have...
Personalised engagement and rewarding shopping habits will be key to rebound post COVID-19.
Personalised engagement and rewarding shopping hab...
While it may seem premature to be thinking beyond COVID-19, we know it will pass. Australia’s latest figures show promising signs of a flattened curve, however it is likely to...
How architecture & technology can pre-empt the future and crystallise a vision of retail precincts
How architecture & technology can pre-empt th...
Technology continues to shape our built environment, but a balance needs to be achieved between hi-tech demands and simple human interaction. Social interaction cannot be replaced with technology or virtual...
Flying cars and sustainable design – the shopping centre of 2100
Flying cars and sustainable design – the shoppin...
In an age of flying cars, food sold in restaurants grown on site, micro-chips implanted in our eyes so we can pay with retina scans, will shopping centres even exist?...
User-centred design and contextual awareness
User-centred design and contextual awareness
There’s Augmented Reality (AR); then we’ve got XR – a combination of augmented, mixed and virtual reality. Retailers and retail property people are some of the technology’s biggest users; worldwide...
Scentre Group partners with smart receipt start-up, Slyp
Scentre Group partners with smart receipt start-up...
Sydney-based start-up Slyp has announced the completion of a $4 million funding round that included ANZ, NAB, Westpac-backed Reinventure and Scentre Group, owner and operator of Westfield in Australia and...
Scentre Group partners with Lygon and banks to transform the bank guarantee process
Scentre Group partners with Lygon and banks to tra...
ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, IBM, Scentre Group and Westpac have jointly launched a live pilot for Lygon, a new digital platform using blockchain technology to transform the way businesses obtain and...
Skyfii acquires Beonic Technologies
Skyfii acquires Beonic Technologies
Skyfii Limited (ASX:SKF) has announced that it has entered into acquisition agreements to acquire customer insights provider, Beonic Technologies (Beonic), a highly complementary offering to Skyfii’s Australian REIT focused SaaS...
Home Consortium signs contract with Skyfii
Home Consortium signs contract with Skyfii
Skyfii Limited (ASX:SKF) one of Australia’s leading data analytics and marketing services company has announced that it has signed a three year contract with leading large format retail landlord, Home...
Lendlease trials new transparent screen technology
Lendlease trials new transparent screen technology
Lendlease has announced that it has started trialling new technology, a transparent LED mesh screen, at its shopping centre located in south west Sydney, Macarthur Square. The trial is in partnership with Techfront...
What do you do with an old Toys ‘R’ Us space? throw in a Catch concept store!
What do you do with an old Toys ‘R’ Us...
Today one of Australia’s largest independent online retailers, Catch.com.au, opens its doors to its first ever pop-up concept store in the former Toys ‘R’ Us store at Vicinity’s Chadstone – The Fashion Capital. It’s proof that bricks-and-mortar...
Stockland launches Stockland Accelerator
Stockland launches Stockland Accelerator
Stockland has today launched the Stockland Accelerator – a program to identify and develop ‘PropTech’ (property technology) start-up solutions to create better connected communities. Powered by Australia’s largest tech start-up...
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...
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...
Alipay reaches 10,000 merchants in Australia and NZ
Alipay reaches 10,000 merchants in Australia and N...
Australia and New Zealand are in the middle of a tourism boom as people come from far and wide to experience our pristine coastlines, unique wildlife and premium local goods....
Future You
Future You
We ponder deeply about the future of retail – what will a shop be like, will it contain stock or just imagery, holograms, samples? How will the internet and online...
Big data the key to retail growth
Big data the key to retail growth
Big Data, we’re told, is the answer to most commercial problems. We’re now informed it’s the solution for shopping centres in their battle against the online sellers. Ben Walker tells...
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