Bittersweet vision

Despite a rather cool beginning to the year, things gradually started to heat up on the last day of March, both in terms of the Warsaw weather and, above all, the mood on the retail market More than 100 participants and 25 speakers met at the latest conference organized by ‘Eurobuild Conferences’. Representatives of the biggest shopping centre development companies engaged in a fierce debate about the potential for new projects in European markets. Richard Lloyd-Owen, retail leader for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Deloitte, was the moderator of the first discussion, entitled ‘Consumer in crisis. Will the market suffer?’ He was joined on the panel by: Rafał Twarowski, the managing director of ECE Projektmanagement Polska; Przemysław Dwojak, the director of the geo-marketing, research and consulting department at GfK Polonia; and Zenon Dąbrowski, investment director of ARX Private E