FY19 was a year of acceleration for investments made by Ingka Group, a strategic partner in the IKEA franchise system, operating 374 IKEA stores in 30 countries.

ECE is acquiring a portfolio with more than 2,000 units.

Sierra Prime is a €1.8Bn strategic joint venture invested in prime Iberian shopping centres.

Trei Real Estate GmbH, a developer and asset holder for residential and retail real estate, just opened the 16th retail park of its Vendo Park format in Poland. The retail park is located in the town of Jawor in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

Capital & Regional (C&R), the UK’s leading owner and manager of community retail centres, announces the opening of the UK’s largest gym operator, PureGym, at the Marlowes Shopping Centre in Hemel Hempstead.

Redevco, one of the largest privately-ownedreal estate investment managers in Europe, has once again leased out all the stores on its retail park Shopping Pajot in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium.

The Ashford Designer Outlet extension, home to the largest living green wall in Europe, has been shortlisted for a Global RLI Award in the “Best International Shopping Centre & Outlet Centre Renovation” category.

The first salon of the optical industry leader – Vision Express – will open in Galeria Wiślanka. This shop will combine medical services and the sale of glasses and lenses in one place, ensuring professional service as well as the care of specialist doctors.

Hammerson’s flagship destination Highcross in Leicester hosting the exhibition from 13th March.

In the heart of Vienna, IKEA is establishing the most innovative city centre IKEA store in the world. IKEA Austria is going completely new ways in addressing radically changed customer and mobility behaviours. IKEA Vienna Westbahnhof will open in 2021.

MK Illumination attended the annual CEE Retail Awards in Warsaw, Poland and was delighted to win the prestigious Professional Service Provider award.

The ACROSS Advisory Board is happy to announce its latest addition and welcomes Peter Tonstad as its new member.

Proposals for the £100m Glasgow Harbour development submitted by Lifestyle Outlets were approved by Glasgow City Council on January 29, 2020.

Opening of a curated pop-up store.

Atrium European Real Estate Limited, a leading owner, operator and redeveloper of shopping centres and retail real estate in Central Europe, reports its financial results for the year ended 31 December 2019 and the outcome of its strategy review.

Capital & Regional, the convenience and community focused shopping centre REIT, announces the appointment of David Hunter as non-executive chairman, which is proposed to take effect at the conclusion of the 2020 Annual General Meeting on 20 May 2020.

Foundation stone laying ceremony for our Delta Planet Nis shopping mall has announced the official start of the construction. The foundation stone for Delta Planet Nis was symbolically laid by Delta Holding Young Leaders.

“Torbjörn Lööf, who has successfully led Inter IKEA Group, headed by Inter IKEA Holding B.V., for the last seven years, has decided to end his assignment,” says Anders Dahlvig, chairman of Inter IKEA Holding B.V. “His successor will be Jon Abrahamsson Ring, who today leads IKEA franchising.”

In view of the increasing spread of the coronavirus in Europe and after intensive consultations, Messe Frankfurt has decided to postpone Light + Building. The world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building-services technology will now be held in Frankfurt am Main between the middle and end of September 2020. The cooperation partners of the international trade fair, ZVEI and ZVEH, support this decision.

Hines, the international real estate firm, announces the annual results of Outlet Village Belaya Dacha for 2019. The key performance indicators of the outlet suggest the steadily increasing interest of the audience in the format; over the past period, the shopping complex has shown an increase in sales and traffic.

The UK’s leading niche retail and leisure agent, Lunson Mitchenall, has extended its London team with the appointment of Zaz Robb. This comes shortly after Lunson Mitchenall announced an array of promotions at the firm last month.

Financing package of €52.5 million to include training for young people.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) will build the three planned hotels (Pullman, Novotel & ibis Styles) in Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier in cooperation with the travel and lifestyle group Accor and the real estate developer B&L Group. From end of 2022, the Accor hotel brands Pullman, Novotel and ibis Styles will open around 830 rooms in the mixed-use district on the river Elbe.

Hines, the international real estate firm, announces 2019 results of Outlet Village Pulkovo. Double-digit growth of the outlet village’s sales and footfall indicators over the past year demonstrates the continuously increasing interest of city residents and tourists.