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Editor Graham Parker 020 7419 2751 graham.parker@jldmedia.com


Staff writer


Mia Hunt 020 7843 4320 mia.hunt@jldmedia.com


Group advertisement manager Graham Harvey 020 7419 2755 graham.harvey@jldmedia.com


Art editor Ivan Lee 020 7843 4339 ivan.lee@jldmedia.com


Advertisement production Ian White 01943 609488 scads@jldmedia.com


Managing director Tim Langford 020 7843 4317 tim.langford@jldmedia.com


Editorial board Catherine Lambert, Jones Lang LaSalle


Colin Wilding, McArthurGlen Howard Morgan, RealService John Prestwich, Cushman & Wakefield Martin Taylor, Martin Taylor Associates Peter Levins, Bannon Andrew Parkinson, Bluewater Paul Sargent, Multi Development UK Martyn Chase, DTZ Bill Giouroukos, Westfield Caroline Kirby, Capital Shopping Centres


Neil MacKenzie, The Disney Store


Shopping Centre 2nd Floor, Centa House, 61 Birkenhead Street, London WC1H 8BB 020 7843 4339 www.shopping-centre.co.uk


Shopping Centre is published monthly. Single copies: £6.00; annual subscription: £72 (UK & Ireland), others POA Printed by S&G, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid-Glamorgan Average net circulation 12,241 (July 2008 – June 2009)


2011 marks the 20th birthday of Shopping Centre magazine, and to celebrate we’re launching a year-long series of articles looking at the way the industry has evolved over the past two decades.


Editor’s letter I’m delighted to welcome


back two former stalwarts of the magazine – Eric Williams and Sean Kelly – as contributors to this special eight-page section which will run throughout 2011. The French have a saying:


plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. And it’s immediately clear that it applies to shopping centres. The headline on the front cover of the first- ever issue of the magazine was “Shorter leases on the way.” Well, that’s one Eric Williams


prophecy that did come true. And leases are still getting shorter to the extend that rent review surveyors are threatened with


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NEWS & ANALYSIS 04 06 07 09


FEATURES 14


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Simon pulls out of CSC bid


Malls beat the big freeze to deliver sales uplift VAT rise and raw materials hike threat for 2011 Ray Cliff looks for new openings


Catering – Buffet restaurants are in the market for larger than ever units


Commercialisation – RMU operators are looking to trade up into kiosks


REGULARS 13 17


35 36 42


Retailer Spotlight – Blue Inc


Twenty Years On – Anniversary special Lettings – The latest market moves


Data – All the latest retail facts and figures People – Service with a smile at Bluewater


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extinction. Fun though it is to leaf


through the back issues, I don’t want the retrospective to be an exercise in idle nostalgia. It’s important to draw lessons and one jumps out from this first edition. The Galleries in Bristol was


reportedly worth £120m when it opened in 1991. Despite regular investment in refurbishment it’s just been sold for £50.2m. As Mrs Thatcher would have


said back then: “You can’t buck the market.” Graham Parker Editor


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