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Many landlords in China underestimate the importance of good shopping centre management. In this month’s column, James Rogers explores the art of good management and the effect it can have on retail assets.
The recent tragic fire in a Shanghai apartment block has again highlighted China’s poor health and safety standards. Whilst the Central Government have recently announced for there to be a fire safety overhaul, is there a role for international retailers in accelerating improvements to Health and Safety throughout China’s retail malls?
We have seen during 2010, a number of new retail schemes opening throughout China with landlords continually looking to differentiate their malls from the rest. With the landlords competing amongst one another to attract the latest brands, are they starting to compromise their malls in order to secure the hottest anchors?
As the number of brands either entering or expanding within the China market continues to increase, this is putting get strain on China’s talented workforce. In this month’s column, James Rogers looks at the challenges facing each company and what is being done to attract the industry’s rising stars.
The Shanghai World Expo has been organised on a scale and with investment unseen before with such an event. With the 54th World Expo passed the half way point, what impact will the event actually have had on the China retail market?
Shanghai's Nanjing West Road is widely regarded as the city's premier street for luxury retail. However, with a number of new luxury areas being developed throughout the city, is this about to change?
As a number of landlords and district governments focus their retail offering towards the luxury sector, many appear to be overlooking the middle-class and the economic indicators.
Wherever you go in China, even to the remote parts, it is almost impossible to avoid the current construction boom.
Taking a high-level look at the best way of entering the greater China market.
Retailers and Landlords should start to work in unison so as to help realise each other’s long term goals.
Under the ‘Attention To Retail’ banner, CR Retail publish a monthly column written by CR Retail’s Managing Director, James Rogers. In the column, we discuss some of the retail issues occurring in the world as well as provide you with an insight to the greater China retail market.
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