Shopping Centre News - November 2021

In this issue

Aligning Shopping Centres and Retail with New- Age Connected Consumers

In the current scenario, it is very important to understand how retailers, mall developers, and tenants can work together to create destinations and experiences that reflect today’s buyer behaviour? As things stand, tenants and mall owners will need to rethink traditional partnership models to cooperatively drive new lifestyle, social, and retail off erings. Across all important verticals, occupiers and retail real estate leaders must work together to generate customer confidence, co-create digital triggers, drive demand, and re-energize toplines.

For a long time, much has been talked about ‘experiential’ shopping spaces, and now the time has come to evolve them to ‘phygital’ spaces. Mall developers are embracing feedback more and more from the retailers on how the current shopping centres need to embrace the phygital element, as well as their inputs for all future shopping centre developments. After all, nobody has their ears closer to the shopperthan the retailers – the big box retailers, the boutique stores, as well as the online retailers. It is only with their constant feedback and inputs that developers can create the right mix of shopping spaces.
With great pleasure and pride, we inform our readers that the second edition of Phygital Retail Convention (PRC) held at Hotel Renaissance on November 10-11 was a huge success. It was quite fascinating to see Indian retail and the shopping centre industries celebrating a triumphant return to the on- ground mega industry gathering.

Shopping Centre News Magazine Description:

Shopping Centre News magazine – launched at the India Shopping Centre Forum on March 18, 2008 – is currently in its 11th year of publication. In its decade+ journey, the publication continues to thrive as a knowledge resource center that collects, analyses and disseminates information on the rich Indian shopping centre industry.

The mission of the magazine is to encourage the development and spread of sophisticated management paradigms and maintenance methods, keeping in context global benchmarks of the mall industry. The monthly magazine also provides a body of focused research into the architecture, aesthetic and design aspects of shopping centres.

The magazine – which is the foremost, most authoritative publication for the shopping centre industry in India – is now available every month and in an all new format. It will continue to act as a bridge between the shopping centre developers and the retail community to help forge a mutually profitable relationship.

Shopping Centre News’ subscribers include everyone from CEOs, to marketing, leasing and fund managers to retailers, architects and retail designers. For those who want to keep up-to-date across the latest developments and events in the world of shopping centres, the magazine is a must-subscribe.