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NEW DATE – Changing Grocery Store Formats, London, 16th July

St Martin Court, London, CBRE office mapVenue: CBRE, St Martin Court, 10 Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7HP
Nearest tube: St Pauls
Date: 16th July 2013,
Time: 6.00 for 6.30 pm

How to get there

The nearest underground station to CBRE’s offices at 10 St Martins Court is St Paul’s on the Central Line. Take exit 1 out of the tube station and turn left onto Newgate Street. St Martins Court is the second entrance on the left.

Alternatively, if you are coming from Bank underground station on the Northern Line, take exit 1 out of the tube station and head down Poultry, which continues into Cheapside. At the end of Cheapside is a staggered junction and the sign for St Paul’s tube station is visible on the other side of the road. Cross the road, towards the tube station, and walk past the tube entrance onto Newgate Street. St Martins Court is the second entrance on the left.

Refreshments will be provided.

Changing grocery store formats

Are the days of building new grocery hypermarkets finally over? If so, how might formats evolve in future? Our three speakers will give their views on the likely way forward for the UK grocery market.

Speakers

  • A retailers’ view of changes in grocery formats – Andy Thompson, Head of Network Planning & Property Insight at Sainsbury’s
  • Staying ahead of the convenience shopper – Steve Jones, Retail Supermarket Agency & Development at Unilever (formerly Tesco)
  • Evolving store formats – Hamish Macmillan, Associate Director – Supermarket Agency and Development, CBRE

Download presentations:

Steve Jones, Unilever – “Staying ahead of the convenience shopper”

Hamish Macmillan, CBRE – Evolving store formats

Agenda timings for the event:

  • 6.00 – 6.30 Registration
  • 6.30 Introduction – Peter Sleight
  • 6.40 Evolving store formats – Hamish Macmillan
  • 7.00 A retailer’s view of changes in grocery formats – Andy Thompson
  • 7.20 Staying ahead of the convenience shopper – Steve Jones
  • 7.40 Q&A – Jonathan Reynolds, OXIRM, University of Oxford
  • 8.00 Networking
  • 8.45 Close

Speaker biographies

Andy Thompson, Head of Network Planning & Property Insight at Sainsbury’s

Andy began his career in GIS and Location Planning at Laser Scan and then Small World Systems some twenty years ago. He then moved to Rank Group as Market Intelligence Manager, where he met future business partners Jon Walker and Steve Halsall.
Andy Thompson, Sainsbury's
His next venture was to set up his own business, GeoBusiness Solutions, alongside his two former work colleagues, Jon and Steve. GeoBusiness Solutions was an independent location analysis company which grew in success with many customers across retail, property and leisure using their consultancy and modelling skills until its takeover by MapInfo, now Pitney Bowes Business Insight.

Andy enjoyed being his own boss and running his own business so he then set another new company, The Wendover Group for three years before moving on to a completely new venture at Anytime Fitness, where as MD Andy helped to establish this successful brand, with over 2,200 clubs across 14 countries, including US, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Anytime Fitness now has 15 clubs open in the UK with plans to double this by the end of 2013.

He is currently working at Sainsbury’s heading up their Network Planning and Property Insight team.

Steve Jones, Senior Format Manager, Unilever

Steve began his working live in GIS and Research at Jones Lang LaSalle where he stayed for 3 years before moving on Tesco where he worked in location planning, corporate marketing, international and Tesco Express for 10 years. Then after a brief spell as a Retail Consultant at CBRE he joined Unilver where he is Senior Format Manager.

Steve will be talking about how the C-sector has been through a period of great change in the last 20 years, and continues to be one of the most dynamic and fastest growing grocery channels. So what’s next? What will shoppers want from their local stores in the future? And how will retailers develop their store propositions to stay ahead of the game and grow sales?

Hamish Macmillan, Associate Director – Supermarket Agency and Development, CBRE

Hamish MacMillan, CBRE
Hamish Macmillan is Retail Supermarket Agency & Development in CB Richard Ellis Retail Division and works in the Supermarket Group within the Division.

Hamish is an associate director within CBRE’s retail supermarket agency and supermarket team. Having acted for many major developers on in town retail led schemes for parties such as Hammerson, Land Securities, Lendlease to name a few, he now concentrates on developer led clients initiating supermarket led schemes throughout the UK.

Dr Jonathan Reynolds, OXIRM
Dr Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School

Jonathan Reynolds is Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.

A geographer and planner by background, he now works with students of marketing and retailing of all ages and leads applied research projects on the sector internationally.

He is the current director of the longstanding Oxford Retail Location Analysis workshop (which next runs between 8-10 April, 2013).


To reserve your place please email info@thesla.org

The changing high street – CBRE, London, 6th Nov 2012

Society for Property ResearchersDate: Tuesday 6th November
Venue: CBRE, Henrietta House, Henrietta Place, London W1G 0NB
Nearest tube: Bond Street
Time: 6.30pm – 8pm (Registration at 6pm)

We’re excited to announce the first collaborative meeting between the Society for Location Analysis (SLA) and the Society for Property Researchers (SPR) which examines the changing high street and its prospects going forward.

Many High Streets look to be on their last legs. Vacancy rates have proliferated. Stock obsolescence problems seem to become more pronounced by the day. Administrations show no signs of easing. Mainstream investors continue their retreat from High Street shopping. Multiple retrenchment into larger towns has turned from a trickle into a flood. And expiry clusters appear to threaten secondary shopping everywhere. So where is all this going?

Are things really as bad as they look or is something entirely different actually happening on the UK’s embattled High Streets? Are we actually seeing the beginning of a renaissance as obsolete shopping is finally forced into other uses? With little in the way of speculative development activity, is the investment focus poised to switch back to prime High Street? Leading retail market commentator Jonathan Reynolds of OXIRM is joined by Richard Gwilliam of Prupim, Gregor Durston of SpaceNK and Roger Wade of BOXPARK to discuss the high street problem.

Chair – Neil Blake, Head of UK & EMEA Research, CBRE

Key-note Speaker:

Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, OXIRM

Speakers:

Richard Gwilliam, Head of Property Research, PRUPIM
Gregor Durston, SpaceNK
Roger Wade, CEO & Founder BOXPARK

Download speaker’s presentations

Download Jonathan Reynold’s presentation Prospects for the High Street

Download Richard Gwilliam’s presentation “High Street Retail – Where Next?”

Download Gregor Durston’s presentation “The High Street: The heart of every community?”

Download Roger Wade’s presentation “The Future of Retail: Multichannel Store”

Agenda

  • 18.30 – Chair’s opening remarks – Neil Blake, CBRE
  • 18.40 – Jonathan Reynolds, OXIRM
  • 19.00 – Richard Gwilliam, Prupim
  • 19.20 – Gregor Durston, SpaceNK
  • 19.40 – Roger Wade, Boxpark
  • 20.00 – Chair: close, networking – Neil Blake

Speaker synopsis

Gregor Durston, SpaceNK
Gregor will begin with a focus on the biggest challenge to the high street. He will then provide a definition of the high street and present some additional thoughts on customer depletion. He will touch on forthcoming lease expiry’s and the impact this will have as well as retailer withdrawal reasons e.g. saturation, market turmoil, internet shopping etc. Gregor will share insights into Space NK’s high street and also his views on multi-channel retailing, site selection and working the high street.

Speaker biographies

Dr Neil Blake, CBREDr Neil Blake, Head of UK and EMEA Research, CBRE

Dr Neil Blake is Head of UK and EMEA Research for CBRE. Prior to joining CBRE in mid-2012 Neil has held positions of Director of Economic Analysis at Oxford Economics and Director of Economics and Forecasting at Experian Business Strategies. He has also worked for Wharton Econometrics (Global Insight) and the University of East Anglia. He holds degrees from the Universities of York and Warwick.

Neil has extensive knowledge of economic modelling and forecasting and has worked on numerous retail and property-related projects. These include modelling international property returns for a leading agent, work for the Barker Review on the economic effects of restrictions on housing supply, the RICS City Office Model, “How Much Space?” and “Retail Voids” for the BCSC, “The Future of Retail” for the BRC and the IPF Research Foundation’s project on “Property and Inflation”, contributing to the development of an investment strategy for a major Dutch property investor as well as modelling, forecasting and scenario analysis of the demand for commercial and residential space in Abu Dhabi.

Neil is a member of the SPR and is a frequent speaker at SPR, IPF and IPD events.

Dr Jonathan Reynolds, OXIRMDr Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School

Jonathan Reynolds is Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management and Associate Dean at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.

A geographer and planner by background, he now works with students of marketing and retailing of all ages and leads applied research projects on the sector internationally.

He is the current director of the longstanding Oxford Retail Location Analysis workshop (which next runs between 8-10 April, 2013).

Richard Gwilliam, PRUPIMRichard Gwilliam, Head of Property Research, PRUPIM

Richard is Head of Property Research at PRUPIM.

He is responsible for the overall direction of property research within PRUPIM, including the analysis of the UK and global property markets, the formation of in-house views, and determination of strategy for PRUPIM’s funds, as well as bespoke in-depth research projects.

Richard has a decade of analysis and research experience within property investment; before joining PRUPIM in 2006, he spent three years at IPD.

Roger Wade, CEO & Founder BOXPARK

Roger Wade is the Founder and ex owner of the Original British Street Fashion brand, Boxfresh. After spending a few years in Advertising after graduating from University, Roger started Boxfresh in 1989. He grew the brand from a market stall, to an International Brand selling in over 12 different countries. Boxfresh were reknowned pioneers of the British Street scene, and were the first to import labels like Carhartt, G-Star and Penfield into the UK. in 2005, Roger sold the Boxfresh to Pentland Brands and formed his own Brand Consultancy, Brands Incorporated, specialising in the development, financing and licensing of UK Fashion Brands. In 2010, Roger founded and created the World’s first Pop Up Mall, Boxpark Shoreditch. BOXPARK is constructed of stripped, and refitted shipping containers, to create unique, low cost, low risk, ‘box shops’. Filled with a unique mix of international fashion and lifestyle brands, galleries and cafés, it’s the world’s first ‘pop-up’ mall – so named because its basic building blocks are inherently movable: they can, and will, pop up anywhere in the world!
Roger is a regular columnist for Drapers, a guest speaker at Manchester and London fashion network, an Associate Lecturer at London College of Fashion, and is a member of the Cool Brands Council.


Registration: To book your place on this event, please email info@thesla.org