Retail &amp; leisure

Ülemiste now bigger and better

18 June 2019

Alex Hayes
journalist

ESTONIA The Ülemiste shopping centre has reopened after extension work was completed by Linstow Center Management adding 13,000 sqm to the centre in an investment of EUR 36 mln.

Castorama opens second store in Bydgoszcz

17 June 2019

POLAND Castorama opened its second store at ul. Karola Szajnochy 1 in Bydgoszcz on June 12th, its 78th store in the country.

Passa targets 100 stores

17 June 2019

POLAND Passa group, a Polish based franchise chain with 61 supermarkets, is planning to open around 40 new stores.

TXM downsizes

17 June 2019

POLAND/ROMANIA/SLOVAKIA Discount clothing chain TXM has presented the main points of its restructuring plan.

POLAND Stokrotka is to become the grocert anchor of the Sukcesja shopping centre in Łódź with a 1,100 sqm store and will take over the space vacated by Piotr I Paweł, which closed due to the chain’s current financial restructuring.

Big data enters the world of retail

14 June 2019

WORLD “In 2016 around 4 pct of retailers were using artificial intelligence. Now we are seeing that this figure has risen to around 28 pct or over one in four retailers. We think this is because retailers are trying to get better intelligence to get the right tools for the job so that they can empower and enable their own workforce develop their capabilities to better understand what customers want to do right now,” said Mary Wallace from IBM Interactive Experience during the REDI 2019 trade fair held by PRCH from May 27-28th in the Koneser complex in Warsaw.

Outlet for better emotions

14 June 2019

POLAND What are the shopping habits of outlet centre shoppers? Why do they shop there in the first place? What do they tend to buy? The answers to these questions can be found in Neinver’s latest report on this segment, ‘Positive Emotion Centres – the Outlet Market in Poland in the eyes of Consumers’, which has been prepared together with research company IQS.

No slowdown for retail park development

14 June 2019

EUROPE European retail park floorspace increased by 2.2 pct over 2018, reaching a total of 50.1 mln sqm according to figures from Cushman & Wakefield’s ‘European Retail Parks: What’s next’ report.

Tarnovia to be transformed

POLAND Galeria Tarnovia in Tarnów in Małopolska is undergoing some changes aimed at refreshing its product range across almost 30 pct of the shopping centre’s area. The new strategy has been developed by CREAM, the property manager, and Griffin Property Finance II FIZAN, the owner of the 17,000 sqm shopping centre.

Plant for Dino

POLAND Suopermarket chain Dino Polska plans to build a distribution centre in Łobez, in Western Pomerania, the company has revealed in an announcement.

Primark debuts in Slovenia

Alex Hayes
journalist

SLOVENIA Primark has opened its first store in the country in the Citypark shopping centre in Ljubljana owned by SES Spar European Shopping Centers.

Galeria Chełm rises from the ground

POLAND General contractor Karmar has almost completed the structural work on the Galeria Chełm shopping centre in eastern Poland.

Auchan starts franchising in Poland

POLAND Auchan has opened its first franchise store in the country. Moje Auchan at al. Wilanowska 89 in Warsaw is a local store that has an area of 450 sqm and a product range of 10,000 goods.

Okęcie Park emerges from Centrum Krakowska 61

12 June 2019

Opr./edited by TC

POLAND The redevelopment of Centrum Krakowska 61 in Warsaw is now nearing completion. The owner of the property, Octava Property Trust, has also announced new tenants and a new name for the building.

Leases signed in Arkady Wrocławskie

12 June 2019

POLAND A number of lease agreements in the Arkady Wrocławskie shopping centre have been signed.

Ten parks planned by Poseidon

Alex Hayes
journalist

CROATIA Poseidon Group has announced it is to open ten Capital Park retail parks across the country by the end of 2020.

Sfinks to grow through franchises and acquisitions

POLAND The Sfinks restaurant network is planning to increase the proportion of franchises that make up the entire chain to more than 60 pct. Its plans for this year also include the acquisition of minority stakes in other companies in the segment and the opening of at least 20 new restaurants.

Five leases signed in Galeria Tęcza

POLAND Two retailers have signed leases in the Galeria Tęcza shopping centre on ul. 3 Maja in Kalisz and five lease renewals have also been signed. Overall, lease agreements with a total area of almost 2,000 sqm have been signed.

Facelift for Galeria Mokotów