Olena has been working for the company since 2015, her responsibilities include the formation and development of the company’s business reputation, support of corporate B2B and CSR projects, cooperation with media outlets and establishing Media Relations, positioning of malls and implementation of B2C programs.

Starting on October 1, 2020, Ivica Pavusek will be the new Head of Property, Maintenance, Purchasing & Sustainability (PMPS) at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Germany. In his new position, he will be responsible for all commercial and technical disciplines of the wide-ranging facility management sector at 23 German locations that are operated by URW.

JLL summarizes conditions on Poland’s retail market at the end of H1 2020.

The owners, Claus and Gunnar Heinemann, appoint Dr. Dirk Schneider as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) on the Executive Board of Gebr. Heinemann as of 1 September 2020. He succeeds Kay Spanger, who is retiring after more than 40 years with the Hamburg-based Duty Free company.

LabTech, owner of Camden Market, has announced Camden Market is set to host the UK’s first public live series of music events since the lockdown, with eight ticketed, free open-air weekend performances commencing from Saturday 25 July – 16 August, under the banner ‘Camden Unlocked’.

With currently 90 fully leased STOP SHOPs on a total area of approximately 700,000 sq m in nine countries, the retail parks of IMMOFINANZ remain consistently on a growth course.

Multi Iberia can now certify the security and safety of the shopping centres it manages in Portugal and Spain, thanks to its partnership with Bureau Veritas.

SPAR Spain has continued growing the brand during the second quarter of 2020 with a string of store openings in different formats.

designer outlets Wolfsburg invite their guests to experience their open-air beach area and herald the beginning of the holiday season with two sand sculptures that were built by sand artists.

CBRE Switzerland has won the exclusive letting mandate for one of Switzerland’s best-known retail properties in a bidding contest. The owner of the iconic building with the prestigious address Bahnhofstrasse 75/79 is Swiss Life.

First half of 2020 saw a record high investment activity with EUR 3.5 billion of investment transactions closed, including pending transactions at final stage. Although this has been a 30% better result than during the corresponding period last year, achieving this year a similar result to record-breaking volume of EUR 7.8 billion registered last year may be difficult – according to Avison Young.

Shelley Sandzer, the leading specialist leisure property agency, and Gerald Edelman, one of the leading mid-market business advisory and professional services firms in the UK, have announced the creation of a new business, Shelley Sandzer Corporate Finance (SSCF).

Neucölln Carrée in Berlin changes ownership. Union Investment acquired the centrally located local supply center in Berlin’s Neukölln district (on the corner of Sonnenalle and Grenzallee) with a leasable of 13,364 sq m and 14 shop units for its institutional real estate fund.

IKEA takes the sustainability journey to the next level by challenging an icon – the meatball – and has created a more sustainable option for the many meatball lovers.

The opening of Colosseum Mall in Bucharest, initially planned for the end of this year, is rescheduled for 2021, considering the unpredictability of the business environment under the impact of Covid-19 pandemic.

The owner-managed RATISBONA Handelsimmobilien Group has realised almost 16,000 sq m of retail and commercial space in the first half of 2020.

LabTech, owner of Camden Market, has announced its eco-led sister development Buck Street Market will officially reopen for business on July 15.

centre:mk has announced that Dune London, the footwear and accessories brand, launched its latest store and first to open post-lockdown, at 31 Silbury Arcade. As one of the UK’s top 10 shopping centres, centre:mk welcomes the footwear retailer alongside over 120 stores that have now reopened since 15 June, including John Lewis.

Planning permission has been granted for the £250m replacement of Crompton Place shopping centre with a mixed-use, masterplan-led redevelopment of this strategically important town centre site, which lies at the heart of Bolton Council’s £1.5bn plans for the town centre.

Global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has been named the Best CEE/SEE
Retail Real Estate Agency at the HOF Awards & Forum.

DIC Asset AG, one of Germany’s leading listed property companies, announced that an agreement with its tenant Galeria Kaufhof GmbH had been reached regarding the prolongation of existing tenancies of its Chemnitz and Leverkusen assets on July 3, 2020.

These companies will be exhibiting at Propel by MIPIM: Métropole du Grand Paris, Paris & Co, E.ON, Saint Gobain, Schneider Electric, ArcelorMittal and numerous startups.

The Management Spokesman of Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss (ZIA), the central association of the real estate industry, will start working for project developer ECE in Hamburg on September 1, 2020.