Shopping Center Forum - the largest gathering of retailers and shopping center developers in the CEE region - opens at the EXPO XXI center in Warsaw on 18 September.

Shopping Center Forum - the largest gathering of retailers and shopping center developers in the CEE region - opens at the EXPO XXI center in Warsaw on 18 September.

It’s still five weeks away, but the vast majority of significant developers on the retail real estate market have already confirmed their presence.

The list includes Neinver, TriGranit, Apsys, Inter Ikea, Mayland, ECE Projectmanagement, Echo Investment, elbfonds Development, Multi Development, Gemini, Immochan, Atrium, Immofinanz, TK Development, Ptak Outlet, Ghelamco, Fabryka Biznesu, Acteeum, Antan Development, and many more.

The Forum is hugely popular among the largest Polish and foreign retail chains which co-create the market, such as: Alshaya, Zara, H&M, C&A, Douglas, Auchan, Carrefour, Sephora, Superpharm, ToysRUs, Vistula, Carrefour, Marionnaud, Avans, Triumph, Mustang, Tommy Hilfiger, Tom Tailor, Kazar, Kari, Decathlon, Deichmann, Apple, Adidas, and Puma, among others.

Kamila JaroszyΓ±ska, Development & Real Estate Director at Sephora Poland: 'The Shopping Center Forum is an opportunity for close encounters with prominent participants of the commercial market in Poland. We’re happy to meet partners with whom we have cooperated for years, but we’re also keen on getting to know representatives of shopping centers which are currently under development. We might take them into consideration while planning new openings of Sephora cosmetics stores.'

'Participating in the Fall edition of the Shopping Center Forum is very important for us. It will be the first time we present our entire shopping center portfolio. The project we’re most keen on presenting at the expo is the Morena shopping center, which is located in the city of GdaΓ±sk, and shall be modernized and re-commericialized,” Roman Martin, CFO and Vice President of Carrefour Poland, told Retailnet.

'Participating in the Fall edition of the Shopping Center Forum is very important for us. It will be the first time we present our entire shopping center portfolio. The project we’re most keen on presenting at the expo is the Morena shopping center, which is located in the city of GdaΓ±sk, and shall be modernized and re-commericialized,' Roman Martin, CFO and Vice President of Carrefour Poland, told Retailnet.

The Fall Edition of the Shopping Center Forum is, first and foremost, a meeting dedicated to retail space, as well as technology and appliances intended for shopping centers.

PROJECT FLASH
As a complimentary part of the conference, the organizer has planned the Project Flash panel, in which each of the exhibitors will have the opportunity to conduct an 8-minute presentation of a development project or technology for shopping centers.

The Forum also hosts panel discussions. In this edition, developers, analysts, and representatives of retail chains will discuss the consequences of losses of revenue, refurbishing, and multi-channel retailing.

Here’s a friendly reminder about the Forum: it’s an bi-annual gathering of retailers and developers of shopping centers, which has been organized since 2005. It the largest event of its kind, which is not only true in Poland, but throughout CEE. It takes place twice a year: in Spring (one day), and Fall (two days).

This year’s Fall Edition will be held 18-19.September at the EXPO XXI center in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, click on the link

Almost a thousand people took part in last year’s Fall Edition. There were more than 200 representatives of retail chains and other shopping center tenants present. Several dozen exhibitors shared almost a hundred shopping centers in the process of being leased-up. There was also a large group of representatives of companies providing cutting-edge services and technologies for shopping centers among the participants.