The United Kingdom and France figured strongly as the MAPIC Awards 2009. The jury, chaired by Sharon Fernández-Cavada King, Directora de Agencia, Retail – Oficinas - Industrial & Logística, DTZ (Spain), met in Paris on Friday 25 September to select the finalists. Designed to reward the professionalism and skills of key players in the retail real estate sector, the MAPIC Awards give international recognition to the winners. Sedef Okman, Corporate Communications Manager, Koton (Turkey), who won an award last year in the Retail success story category, recalls his experience: “It was a great honour for us to win an award from the most important retail organisation with existence of participation from Europe to Far East. We had great media coverage and we believe having this global award improved our brand perception in the global arena.”
The winners will be named at a prize-giving ceremony to be held during MAPIC, in the Palais des Festivals at 6.30 pm on Thursday 19 November. To celebrate the event, MAPIC invites all participants to continue the festivities at the Hotel Martinez from 10 pm.
This year’s projects are:
Retail success story of the year:
- Guess (France)
- Primark (United Kingdom)
- Rituals Cosmetics (The Netherlands)
Best concept of the year:
- Arrow (The Netherlands) / submitted by Secon Group BV
- KidZania (Mexico)
- O2 (United Kingdom) / submitted by JHP
Developer of the year:
- ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG (Germany)
- Multi Corporation bv (The Netherlands)
- Sonae Sierra (Portugal)
Best shopping centre of the year:
- Odysseum, Montpellier (France) / submitted by Icade Promotion
- MyZeil, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) / submitted by MAB Development Deutschland GmbH
- Westfield, London (United Kingdom)
Agent/Consultant of the year:
- CB Richard Ellis (United Kingdom)
- Eurelia (France)
- Jones Lang LaSalle (United Kingdom)
Best sustainable retail development of the year:
- Cameleon Woluwe, Bruxelles (Belgium), submitted by Cameleon-Famous Clothes SA
- McDonald’s (France)
- Ernst-August-Galerie, Hannover (Germany) / submitted by ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG
Chaired by Sharon Fernández-Cavada King, Directora de Agencia, Retail – Oficinas - Industrial & Logística, DTZ (Spain), the jury that shortlisted these finalists comprises well-known personalities in the retail real estate industry and the trade press:
- Alain Boutigny, Directeur de la publication, Sites Commerciaux (France)
- Peter Cole, Executive Director, Chairman – UK Business, Hammerson Plc (United Kingdom)
- Pietro Malaspina, Managing Director, Sierra Developments Italy (Italy)
- Menno Maas, CEO, ING Real Estate Development International B.V. (The Netherlands)
- Hermine Matzer van Bloois, Director Retail Services, Hugo Boss AG (Germany)
- John Strachan, Global Head of Retail, Cushman & Wakefield LLP (United Kingdom)
- Klaus Striebich, Managing Director, Leasing, ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG (Germany)
For the seventh category “Urban regeneration initiative,” MAPIC Awards 2009 will also benefit from the expert experience of AMCV/TOCEMA, the European network for city centre management, to select three finalists. Their names will be revealed in October. Estates Gazette is the competition’s media partner this year.
Shortlisted project descriptions will soon be available in the MAPIC press kit: www.mapic.com» (CS del Salone)
