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A Grand Time 

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Outlet revitalization in Ochtrup 

China’s Mega Mills opens 

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CONTENTS 

Vol. 9 No. 2 Spring 2013 

4 News Up Front: Resolution acquires Rosada 

Factory Outlet 

6 Promos opens Cilento Outlet Village on the Amalfi 

Coast 

8 RDG breathes life into a Westphalian outlet center 

12 Pearl River, Welead and The Outlet! Company 

open Mega Mills 

14 Why Finland needs Russians, for outlets, that is 

16 Global News: McArthurGlen gets the green light in France; 

Neinver and MAB plan their first center in the Netherlands; 

Stable International moves forward on several projects; Prada 

expands two outlets in Italy; Designer Outlets Wolfsburg posts 

double-digit increases and plans an expansion; Nike and 

Adidas open in Changsha; MCG leasing update. 

18 Outlet meeting gets a makeover 

CHeCK iT OuT: 

The 2013 Outlet Connections Plus 

June 13-14 in Hamburg 

See page 18 for details. 

Neinver ................................................... 5 

Outlet Connections Plus ....................... 17 

Value Retail .......................................... 15 

SpriNg 2013 INTeRNATIONAl OuTleT JOuRNAl 3

Up frONT 

resolution acquires rosada Factory Outlet 

reSOluTiON Real Estate acquired 

Rosada Factory Outlet in Roosendaal, 

Netherlands, on December 12, 

2012 from CBRE Global Investors. 

Resolution plans to expand the 

176,300-sf center with a 77,500-sf 

phase 2, set to open in 2014. Resolution 

reported that it will have invested more 

than €30 million in the acquisition and 

expansion. 

The center, originally developed by 

U.S.-based MDG, opened in 2006 and 

is currently about 85 percent occupied. 

Among the center’s 50 tenants are Converse, 

Dockers, Ecco, Gant, Levi’s, Nike, 

Petite Bateau, Puma, Reebok, Skechers 

and Tom Tailor. Average annual rents in 

the project are €240 per m 2 . 

“On completion of the second 

phase of development, Rosada will 

have critical mass to become the 

dominant retail destination in its large 

cross-border catchment area,” said Peter 

Todd, head of Resolution Property’s 

European retail investments. “The 

extension of the asset, combined with 

an optimized tenant mix, should meet 

the requirements of our value-added 

investment strategy.” 

Roosendaal, in southwest Netherlands, 

is 50 km south of Rotterdam 

and 40 km north of Antwerp in 

Belgium, which gives it a Dutch and 

Belgian catchment of 18 million within 

90 minutes and 8.4 million within 60 

minutes. The center is 90 minutes 

south of Batavia Stad Fashion Outlet 

in Lelystad, Netherlands, and 90 

minutes west of both Maasmechelen 

Village and McArthurGlen Luxembourg, 

both in Belgium. The two latter 

centers are about 30 minutes apart. 

Roosendaal is also about 90 minutes 

south of Amsterdam, where Neinver 

and MAB plan to develop an outlet 

center (see page 16). 

Resolution also owns Park Avenue 

Fashion Outlet in Bilbao, Spain; and 

McArthurGlen Troyes and McArthur- 

Glen Roubaix in France. Stable International, 

which has been handling leasing, 

marketing and management of Rosada 

Factory Outlet center since 2010, will 

continue in that role. Stable recently 

said the center posted an 8 percent sales 

increase for 2012. Stable also operates 

Batavia Stad, which posted a 7 percent 

increase in sales for 2012. c 

4 INTeRNATIONAl OuTleT JOuRNAl SpriNg 2013 

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CENTEr OpENiNg 

Cilento Outlet Village 

opens to big crowds 


Promos’ newest outlet 

village will cater to 

the 6 million upscale 

tourists who visit the 

Campania each year. 

CileNTO OuTleT Village opened December 

15, 2012, in Eboli, which is 30 

miles from Salerno on the Amalfi Coast. 

The center was developed by Irgenre 

Group of Campania and Promos, the 

Brescia-based company headed by Carlo 

Maffioli. Promos has carried out the 

leasing and marketing on the €80 million 

center, with its subsidiary Promanagment 

handling operations. 

In the first 10 days it was open, more 

than 200,000 visited the 24,000-m 2 phase 

More than 6 million affluent tourists visit the Campania 

region of Italy each year.

1 of Cilento Outlet Village, the only 

outlet project to open in Italy in 2012. 

Promos expects 3 million visitors during 

the first year of business. At completion, 

the center will be 34,000 m 2 . 

“At a difficult time like this that the 

Italian economy is experiencing, opening 

Cilento Outlet Village is an important 

sign of optimism,” Carlo Maffioli said. 

Cilento Outlet Village is along state 

highway S.S. 18, which links Salerno to 

Paestum, close to the Battipaglia exit 

on the three-lane section of the A3 

Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway. The 

center’s catchment covers all of central 

and southern Campania and western 

Basilicata, including Salerno, Potenza 

and Avellino, Naples and part of the 

provinces of Benevento and Caserta. 

More than 2.5 million people live within 

a 60-minute drive of the center and 5 

million live within 90 minutes. 

More than 6 million tourists, mostly 

upper-class visitors from the U.S., Great 

Britain, Germany, France and Japan, visit 

the Campania region every year. They are 

attracted by the area’s exceptional scenery, 

history and cultural resources, as well 

as the lovely beach resorts of Capri and 

Ischia, Positano and Procida, Amalfi and 

Sorrento, Punta Licosa and Palinuro. 

The tenant list is filled with 

Italian and international fashion 

brands, including Missoni, Galliano 

and MaxMara Group, alongside 

prestigious multibrand stores like 

Fashion Store and Luxury Mall. 

The casual trend is represented 

by Fiorucci, Geox, Benetton and 

Harmont & Blaine, and there are 

also several major sports brands, 

including Nike, Puma and Adidas. 

Bialetti, Livin’ De Longhi and 

Borgo Tessile fill the need for 

homegoods, and particular attention 

has been devoted to the excellent 

cuisine and fine wines of the 

Campania Region. 

Promos is also developing Scalo 

Milano Outlets & More, which 

is planned to become the largest 

mall of its kind in Europe (see the 

Winter 2013 IOJ for more details). 

Scalo Milano will directly link to 

Milan via the subway network. c 

Cilento Outlet Village, eboli, italy 

CileNTO OuTleT VillAGe TeNANTS 

Adidas-Reebok 

Alcott 

Barbuti 

Basile 

Bata 

Bencivenga (opening soon) 

Benetton 

Bialetti 

Bikiniworld 

Borgo Tessile 

Borgofiori (Valentino) 

Bottega del Sarto 

Byblos 

Calvin Klein 

Camicissima 

Camomilla Italia 

D&G 

Desiree (opening soon) 

Diffusione Tessile 

Docksteps 

Eddicott 

Ermanno Scervino (GF Ferré) 

Fiorucci 

Fracomina 

Galliano 

Gattinoni 

Geox 

Gianni Ragusa 

Gioielleria Magliano 

Giunti al Punto 

Golden Point 

Gutteridge 

Harmont & Blaine 

Harmont & Blaine Junior 

Hill’s Store 

It Fashion 

Ivy Oxford 

Jaked (opening soon) 

Just Cavalli 

Kocca 

Livin’ de’ Longhi 

Luxury Mall (Versace) 

Marina Militare 

Miriade 

Missoni 

Modus Profumerie 

Nike 

Nuvola (opening soon) 

Outly 

Piacenza 

Portobello 

Primigi 

Puma 

Ragno-Lanificio di 

Tollegno 

Replay 

Rifle 

Roberta Biagi 

Roberto Cavalli 

Roccobarocco 

Satur Passione Casa 

Sergio Rossi 

Tailor Club 

Tommy Hilfiger 

Yamamay (opening soon) 


CENTEr OpENiNg 

FOC Ochtrup 

expands, opens 

Factory Outlet Ochtrup combines an enclosed mall with a village setting. 


The outlet center is a 

revitalization and 

expansion of a small 

project that opened in 

2004 in Münsterland. 

reDeVelOPiNG an outlet 

center, particularly one that is relatively 

new, is a little bit of a rarity, but it does 

occasionally happen. Retail Development 

Group of Cologne recently 

accomplished this feat with the 2012 

opening of Factory Outlet Center 

Ochtrup, which is in the North Rhine- 

Westphalia region of Germany. 

When the project originally opened in 

2004, it was small – just 3,500 m 2 – and 

sparsely occupied. RDG subsequently 

redeveloped and expanded it to 17,000 

m 2 , making room for an additional 80 

brands, to bring the total to more than 

100 stores. Although FOC Ochtrup 

opened under the radar screen last 

August, it has already seen more than 1 

million visitors in the first six months, 

according to Ulrich Nordhorn, the 

CEO of Retail Development Group. 

“We didn’t make too much noise,” 

Nordhorn said. “It was a very small 

outlet center in the beginning because it 

couldn’t get approvals for anything bigger. 

We sued, we won, and we were able 

to bring it up to the proper size.” 

Nordhorn told VRN in January that 

the center was more than 90 percent 

occupied and that he has no doubt the 

center will hit its projections of 2 million 

to 2.5 million visitors in the first year. 

The catchment for FOC Ochtrup is 

nearly 9 million people. “It’s a region that 

has city next to city, one blending into 

the next,” Nordhorn said. “It is the most 

densely populated state in Germany.” 

The center itself, the only outlet center 

in North Rhine-Westphalia, is in the Münsterland, 

between Enschede (in the Netherlands), 

Osnabrück (in Germany) and

the Rhine-Ruhr Area (also in Germany). 

The catchment includes 4.7 million people 

within 60 minutes and 15.6 million within 

90 minutes. In addition, the Münsterland’s 

5 percent unemployment rate is below 

Germany’s average, and its 11.5 percent 

purchasing power is above average. 

The center has four restaurants, including 

the new German-style McDonalds, 

which Nordhorn describes as having 

gourmet coffees, computer screens 

and self-pay stations. “We have 800 seats 

for restaurants in the food court,” he 

said. “It’s similar to Sawgrass Mills in 

Florida. We also have great Turkish, Italian 

and German restaurants.” 

Retail Development Group is developing 

FACTOry OuTleT CeNTer OCHTruP TeNANTS 

Alfi 

Apriori 

Ara-Shoes 

Benvenuto 

Bianca 

Björn Borg 

Bugatti 

CECEBA Bodywear 

Cecil 

Clarks 

Crocs 

Daniel Hechter 

DC 

Depot 

Desigual 

Dockers 

Dornbusch 

EDC by Esprit 

Esprit 

Eterna 

Fossil 

Garcia 

Gelco 

Geox 

Heilemann Confiserie 

Home 

Hunkemöller 

Jack & Jones 

Jacques Britt 

Kanz 

a new outlet center south of Westphalia. 

Nordhorn said he couldn’t reveal details 

until mid-April, but he did give IOJ a hint 

Laurél 

Levi’s 

Marc Aurel 

Marc O´Polo 

Marc Picard 

Mephisto 

Mexx 

More & More 

Möve 

Nike 

Olsen 

Only 

Otto Kern 

Pampolina 

Pieces 

to the new project’s location. “It’s close to 

Stable Development’s site in Montabaur. 

They’re not going to be happy,” he said. c 

Pierre Cardin 

Puma 

Quiksilver 

Ravensburger 

Redford 

Roxy 

Salamander 

Samsonite 

Sanetta 

Schiesser 

Schmuck & Uhren* 

Schwarze Rose 

Seidensticker 

Sigikid 

Silit 

Skagen 

Speidel 

Steiff 

Street One 

Superfit 

Tom Tailor 

Vero Moda 

Vila 

Watch Station 

WMF 

*Schmuck & Uhren is a multibrand retailer that sells Adidas, Armani, Diesel, DKNY, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors and Zodiac. 


EOC CENTEr rECap OpENiNg 

Super opening 

for Mega Mills 

Mega Mills in Shanghai includes 130 outlet stores and a 35,000-sf food court. 


Shanghai embraces its 

newest outlet project, 

which has all the upscale 

components of the best 

centers around globe. 

MeGA MillS opened to the public 

on January 18 in Shanghai, welcoming 

more than 130 international luxury 

brands and well-known domestic labels. 

The project is an open-air shopping 

center with two levels of retail and approximately 

3,000 indoor and outdoor 

parking spaces. 

Mega Mills is owned by the Pearl 

River Real Estate Group and jointly 

managed by Shanghai Welead Investment 

Co. Ltd. and The Outlet! Company. 

The new center is a world-class 

outlet shopping destination in the 

Shanghai market. Following 

its grand opening in 

late April, Mega Mills will 

offer a total of 575,000 

sf of leasable area, 

including the 35,000-sf 

Grand Gourmet Food 

Court, a nine-screen 

cinema and a variety of 

upscale restaurants and 

cafes. 

Under a long-term 

management partnership, 

Shanghai Welead Investment 

Co. Ltd and The 

Outlet! Company provide 

comprehensive services 

and amenities reflective 

of the outlet industry’s 

highest standards. These 

features include three 

information centers, a VIP 

Lounge, children’s playground 

facilities, shuttle 

bus services, and an employee 

cafeteria.

The Outlet! Company 

will open its second project 

in China, in Nanjing. The 

438,000-sf Nanjing East 

Suburb Outlets will open in 

late 2014 as a single-story, 

standard racetrack design with 

2,300 outdoor parking spaces. 

Also in development and 

opening in late 2014 is The 

Outlet! Company’s first outlet 

project in Taiwan. The Gloria 

Outlet, 40 minutes southwest 

of Taipei, will feature 

250 stores, a large-scale food 

court, international restaurants 

and cafes, and a cinema. The 

54-acre site was secured in October 

2012, and construction is expected to 

begin this fall. 

The Outlet! Company, is led by Daniel 

Kelly, a pioneer in the Asian outlet 

industry. During his 16-year tenure with 

Simon Chelsea Premium Outlets, he led 

the leasing efforts and was instrumental 

in the group’s successful entry into 

international markets including Japan, 

Korea and Mexico. He now brings his 

extensive retailer relationships and experience 

in site selection, design, planning, 

leasing, marketing, property management 

to The Outlet! Company. c 

MeGA MillS TeNANTS iNCluDe: 

15 minutes 

Adolfo Dominguez 

Agatha 

Anna Sui 

Anteprima 

Asics 

Audrey 

Balmain 

Biem.L.Fdlkk 

Blocco 5 

Bou Jeloud 

Braun Buffel 

Bread N Butter 

CH Carolina Herrera 

Charles River 

City Chain 

Club Monaco 

Cocktail la mode 

Cordier 

D.Anuo 

Daniel Cremieux 

De Verli 

De Verli Underwear 

Dell’ga 

Devil Nut 

Dinosaur 

Disney Baby 

DKNY 

Donatello’s 

Ed Hardy 

Element Fresh 

Emely 

EQ:IQ 

Ermenegildo Zegna 

Esprit Home 

Evisu 

Ferre 

Fiona’s Prince 

Fossil 

Furla 

Gastone Lucioli 

Gentle 

Hazzys 

Howard Miller 

Huang Shu Chi 

Ice Iceberg 

Indivi 

ISE 

Jack & Jones 

Jaguar 

Joan & David 

Juicy Couture 

Just Cavalli 

Kaltendin 

Mega Mills was the successful outcome of a joint venture between Shanghai Welead 

Investments and the Outlet! Company. 

Kelly & Chris 

Kieninger 

Kopi Luwak 

Krorayna 

L.L. Bean 

La Mia 

Lai Car Fore 

LensCrafters 

Li Hao 

Liu Jo 

Liu Jo Jeans 

Lonsdale 

LuLualways 

Maison Mode 

Mangano 

Mark Fairwhale 

Maxstudio 

Michael Kors 

Mo & Co 

MOGG 

MOGG Pink 

Morellato 

Naturalizer 

Nine West 

Oakley 

Oasis 

O’blu 

Odbo 

Oikos 

Onitsuka Tiger 

Only 

Orbita 

OVS 

P+ 

Patrizia Pepe 

Pierre Balmain 

Pineider 

Pinko 

Pizza Hut 

Reneevon 

Replay 

Ricco e Fama 

Roberto Cavalli 

Roberto de Camerino 

S.D. Spontini 

S.T. Dupont 

SC Fashion 

Scatola del Tempo 

Selected 

Seven Days 

Shanghai Tang 

Shanghai Vive 

Shiatzy Chen 

S’I 

Sisley 

Spige 

Starbucks 

Stefanel 

Steve Madden 

Swarovski 

Swank 

Talbots 

Ted Baker 

Testoni 

Test-Tube 

Thomas Pink 

TNGT 

Tony Jeans 

Toon’s Land 

True Religion 

Umbro 

United Colors of Benetton 

Vasto 

Vero Moda 

Versace 

VOV 

Watch Station 

Woo 

Zukka Pro 

Zuma 


gUEST COlUmN 

Finland’s outlet potential 

Russian tourists, who 

have money to burn on 

upscale brands, are the 

shoppers to target, not 

the conservative Finns. 

By ilya Nikitin 

With only two planned projects 

in Finland’s outlet pipeline, the outlet 

boom has not yet arrived in Finland. 

As of mid-February, neither of the 

two projects – Nordlett’s Outlet Village 

Oulu and Krüüg Outlet Solutions’ 

Lohja Fashion Outlet – had announced 

any financing. 

Nordlett is planning a center in Oulu, 

which has about 150,000 inhabitants. The 

site for the village-style project is 160 km 

from the polar circle, which means that 

Nordlett has great faith in the frost-resistance 

of potential shoppers. 

Krüüg’s plan for Lohja keeps all of 

the shops under one roof, and the site 

is just 60 km from Helsinki, amid three 

of the biggest cities in the country. 

However, the planned huge building 

on the hill could be costly for a smallmargin 

outlet center. 

While Nordlett is working with Rioja 

Development on obtaining financing, 

participating in conferences and attracting 

tenants, Krüüg has been quiet lately. 

But where are Europe’s top outlet 

developers? Why haven’t they come 

to Finland? 

Developing an outlet center in a 

region of 3.6 million people within a 

60-minute drive is quite common in Europe. 

Why not in Finland? And closer to 

Helsinki there are sites with a catchment 

of 2 million people, more than enough 

population considering the city’s high 

consumer price index. 

I believe the outlet community has ignored 

Finland because Finns are famous 

for their indifference toward trendy 

clothing. The main priority for Finns is 

comfort, so there is not much demand 

for high-profile brands here. Perhaps 

upscale brands don’t understand that 


opening outlets in Finland would be a 

good way to introduce themselves to a 

whole new set of shoppers. 

In any case, developers should 

think beyond the local population 

when assessing the outlet potential 

of Finland. Instead, consider the 

power of Russian shoppers and how 

much they spend in Europe. At Italian 

outlet centers Russians ranked third 

in purchasing. In 2011 Russians spent 

around €42 billion shopping abroad. 

During the financial crisis in Europe 

and particularly in Italy, there was no 

drop in sales at outlet centers. Much 

of this stability came from shopping 

tourists from Russia and Asia. 

There are two reasons that Russians 

shop in Europe: lower prices and 

authenticity of goods. Prices in Russia 

are two-to-three times higher than in 

Europe due to administrative and customs 

expenses, and counterfeit clothing 

of famous brands totals 37 percent 

of total sales there. 

In 2012 Russians made 3.4 million 

visits to Finland through various 

border-crossing points. This number 

will continue to rise and is expected to 

reach 5.5 million annual arrivals by 2014. 

To further increase the tourist flow, 

many cities in Finland are looking at a 

36-hour visa-free system for Russians. 

The 6 million citizens of St. Petersburg 

and its regions account for 70 percent 

of the Russian visitors to Finland. Thus, 

a visa-free window would be extremely 

valuable to Finnish retailers. 

St. Petersburg, a five-hour drive 

from Helsinki, is the third largest city 

in Europe after Moscow and London. 

Almost 80 percent of Russian visitors 

to Finland come just to shop, spending 

around €200 million on clothes, shoes 

and accessories in 2012. Tax-free purchases 

by Russians also increased by 26 

percent over 2011. 

Russian tourists in Helsinki buy 

clothes, shoes and accessories from the 

medium-high and premium pricing sectors, 

whereas in towns near the border 

money is spent on moderate clothing, 

household and sporting goods. 

The average consumption of Russian 

tourists is much higher than that of 

Finns. Russians are eager to buy fashion 

brands, and despite the distance and 

expensive parking charges, almost half 

come to Helsinki, where they drop €100 

million annually. 

Satisfying the needs of Russian tourists 

provides a strong justification for developing 

an upscale outlet center in southeastern 

Finland. However, to be successful, 

the center must not be packed with 

the moderate and less-celebrated brands 

often found in the mid-market projects in 

Central and Eastern Europe. c 

Ilya Nikitin is the managing director 

of Akado Oy, a developer based in 

Kouvola, Finland.

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mCg gets the go-ahead in france 

MCArTHurGleN, Europe’s 

largest owner, developer and manager 

of designer outlet centers, has 

received retail planning approval 

for its newest planned project, 

McArthurGlen Designer Outlet 

Provence. 

The approval, granted Jan. 29, 

allows for a 26,000-m 2 (280,000sf) 

center in Provence-Alpes-Côte 

d’Azur. The site is in the city of 

Miramas, 45 minutes from Aixen-Provence 

and 50 minutes from 

Marseilles. It is near the junctions 

of the A8, A7 and A54 motorways, 

linking Marseilles with Nice, Lyons, 

Avignon and Nîmes. The city also 

benefits from a high-speed TGV rail 

New tenants at McArthurGlen Designer Outlets 

CeNTer TeNANT OPeNiNG GlA (M2 ) 

Ashford Hamleys Dec-12 1,518 

Wagamama (restaurant) Dec-12 2,296 

Cheshire Oaks Church’s Dec-12 1,689 

Fossil Dec-12 3,130 

Joseph Dec-12 1,419 

Lulu Guinness Nov-12 724 

Watch Station Dec-12 1,385 

la reggia Armani Jan-13 294 

Michael Kors Nov-12 181 

Pepe Jeans Dec-12 176 

Polo Ralph Lauren (2nd store) Dec-12 879 

livingston Kurt Geiger Dec-12 1,808 

timberland Nov-12 2,873 

Neumünster triumph Dec-12 151 

Veneto Diesel Jan-13 361 

Michael Kors Nov-12 197 

New Balance Dec-12 149 

Parndorf 7 For All Mankind Dec-12 112 

Bally Nov-12 182 

Swarovski Nov-12 54 

Zwilling Dec-12 112 

roermond Kipling Dec-12 107 

Ralph Lauren Nov-12 172 

roubaix Kookai Dec-12 183 

Salzburg Clarks Dec-12 219 

Serravalle Armani Jan-13 300 

Marina Militare Jan-13 162 


station within walking distance of 

the center. With more than 30 million 

tourists visiting the southeast 

of France every year, the site has 

enormous tourist potential. The 

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region 

is the second most visited tourist 

destination in France, after Paris. 

McArthurGlen Designer Outlet 

Provence will be MCG’s 23 rd outlet 

center, with its 22 nd due to open 

in Vancouver in 2014. And it will 

be MCG’s third in France, with 

McArthurGlen Troyes opening in 

1995 and McArthurGlen Roubaix in 

1999. Tax-free sales at MCG’s 21 

Designer Outlets increased by more 

than 60 percent in 2012. 

Neinver-MAB 

to develop FOC 

near Amsterdam 

NeiNVer AND MAB Development 

will develop an 18,000-m 2 outlet center 

in a former factory site near Amsterdam. 

The project, planned to open in 

2015, will carry Neinver’s “The Style 

Outlets” branding, which is reserved for 

the developer’s most upscale centers. 

In December 2009, the municipality 

of Haarlemmerliede adopted a zoning 

plan for Sugar City, a multi-use complex 

that will include the outlet center, 

a supermarket, a hotel, entertainment 

areas and offices. The site, close to 

Amsterdam, Haarlem and Schiphol 

can be reached from the A200 via the 

N200, and the Amsterdam-Haarlem 

train will have a stop directly in front 

of the outlet center. 

Neinver, Europe’s second largest 

outlet developer after McArthurGlen, 

operates 14 outlet centers totaling 

293,000 m 2 of GLA under the FAC- 

TORY and The Style Outlets brands. 

MAB Development and Neinver 

established a joint venture in 2010 to 

develop 135,000 m 2 of outlet space 

totaling €350 million through 2015. 

SugarCity Investments has been 

involved in the redevelopment of the 

former CSM site since 2000. 

Dalton Park 

celebrates 10 years 

of growth 

iNG reAl eSTATe’S Dalton Park, 

the biggest outlet center in the Newcastle 

region of England, celebrates 

its 10th birthday this year with positive 

2012 results. As sales on the high 

street were flat, Dalton Park posted a 

7 percent increase in overall sales for 

the year ending December 30, 2012. 

Comparative sales were up 5 percent 

for the period, and footfall grew 5 

percent to an all-time high of 2.85 

million visitors. Boxing Day footfall 

was up by 14 percent. 

In addition to strong sales growth, 

Dalton Park has received four ISO 14001 

accreditations. The center also won the 

County Durham 2012 Environment 

Award for its waste management. 

(Continued on page 18)

ICSC Outlet 

Connections Plus 

13-14 June 2013 

Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany 

In association with: 

Outlet Expansion: 

Generating Profit from New Territories 

An exclusive event connecting leasing professionals and retailers for 

dealmaking and networking 

MEET 

with developers and retailers 

one-on-one to discuss leasing 

opportunities 

ICSC European Partners 

Silver Sponsor 

SHARE 

brands’ experiences of entering 

new markets from a retail, 

recruitment, legal and pricing 

perspective 

Featuring 

Retailer workshops to facilitate expansion into France, 

Germany, Poland and Russia 

DISCUSS 

the pros and cons of franchise 

versus brand ownership - how 

do brands determine which 

expansion route is best and why? 

Retailers and 

tenants go 

FREE! 

TO REGISTER PLEASE GO TO: WWW.ICSC.ORG/2013EOS OR CALL +44 20 7976 3100

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The 160,000-sf center has also been 

granted outline planning consent for 

phase 2, which will add a cinema, supermarket, 

hotel, petrol station and other 

food and beverage units. 

GlOBAl NeWS 

n Stable International is moving 

forward on several projects. With ITG 

as its partner, Stable was to begin construction 

this spring on Fashion Outlet 

Leipzig in Brehna, Germany. The 

project will open in mid-2014. 

n Prada stores at two of McArthurGlen’s 

Designer Outlets in Italy 

expanded in December. The Barberino 

Designer Outlet unit has been refitted and 

expanded to 311 m 2 , and the Veneto unit 

has expanded to 536 m 2 . Prada operates 

stores in six MCG outlet centers. 

n Outlet Centres International’s Designer 

Outlets Wolfsburg in Germany 

had a positive 2012 with a 13 percent 

increase in attendance and a 17 percent 

increase in sales. The center welcomed 

a record 1.7 million visitors in 2012, 45 

percent of whom traveled more than 50 

km to do their outlet shopping. Stephan 

Schäfer, managing director of OCI 

said the center is ready for expansion. 

“A special focus in 2013 will be on the 

second construction phase,” he said, adding 

that it will be financed through a new 

investor, Europa Capital. The fund, a 

Rockefeller Group subsidiary, acquired 

a share in the center in 2012. 

n U.S.-based Horizon Group Properties 

says it is aggressively moving 

forward on Globe Outlet Changsha in 

Hunan Province, China. Following a 

12-month hiatus in construction when 

the Chinese government slowed home 

building, Nike and Adidas are now 

open in the 860,000-sf center. Horizon’s 

partner, Globe Outlets, has also opened 

six stores featuring some well-known 

luxury brands, including Dolce & Gabbana, 

Prada, Versace, Diesel, Guess 

and Zegna. The cinema will open this 

summer. “We are in discussions with a 

number of better quality international 

and U.S. brands about creating a retail 

presence at the center,” Horizon CEO 

Gary Skoien told IOJ. “We expect to 

be announcing some strong additions 

shortly. Skoien said his company is no 

longer pursuing a project in Guangzhou 

but “We are especially interested in doing 

something in Harbin and Fuzhou.” c 


Outlet Connections Plus: 

ICSC’s all-new outlet meeting 

THe MeeTiNG formerly known 

as the European Outlet Conference, 

formerly held each autumn, and 

formerly an educational meeting, 

has had a complete restyling with 

a new name, date and format. 

The all-new Outlet Connections 

Plus will be June 13-14 in Hamburg, 

at the Radisson Blu Hamburg 

Airport Hotel. 

The new format, with expanded 

exhibit space and time, emphasizes 

deal making and networking 

opportunities for leasing executives 

and retailers. The new format 

still retains the educational 

component of the previous conference 

in which industry experts 

share their information, insights 

and strategies. The event is much 

like ICSC’s successful Retail 

Connections, but with that important 

Plus factor that the outlet 

community has supported for the 

past seven years. Retailers will 

still attend for free. 

“Outlet expansion: Generating 

Profit from New Territories” is 

the theme of Outlet Connections 

Plus. The rich program features 

panels and discussions on franchisees 

versus parent companies; 

the Internet and social media; 

and the macro-economy’s impact 

on outlet retailing. Following the 

conference, attendees will visit 

McArthurGlen’s Designer Outlet 

Neumünster near Hamburg. 

The program planning committee 

for Outlet Connections 

Plus includes Giles Membrey, 

Rioja Developments (Conference 

Chair); Jamie Acheson, Henderson 

Global Investors; Anna Jones, 

Fashion House Group; Thomas 

Reichenauer, ROS Retail Outlet 

Shopping; Iestyn Roberts, 

Freeport Retail; Bas Rutten, MAB 

Development; Sebastian Sommer, 

Neinver; and Pieter Van Voorst 

Vader, McArthurGlen. 

For more information on exhibiting, 

contact Sally Stephenson at 

sstephenson@icsc.org; for general 

information, contact Susan 

Richards at srichards@icsc.org.

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