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SHOPPING CENTRE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

Manchester Central (formerly the MICC)
Monday 3 - Wednesday 5 March 2008

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Tuesday 4 March and Wednesday 5 March

This year, you will have the opportunity to attend three breakout sessions once again.

Download a summary of the scheduling of the breakout sessions and ensure that you have indicated your chosen options on the online booking form.
   
1. Making your shopping centre sustainable: Simple ways to reduce your environmental impacts
2. Retail manager liaison
3. Getting the best out of your agency
4. Asset management and the New Lease Code
5. Environmental lease obligations for landlords and tenants - who pays?
6. Retail crime: Whose problem is it? Creating safer shopping environments
7. Crisis management best practice: How to protect your people, your customers and your reputation
8. Commercialisation: Enhancing the customer experience or adding value for the asset owner - an overview of the history and future of commercialisation
9. Freight consolidation and remote storage
   
1. Making your shopping centre sustainable: Simple ways to reduce your environmental impacts
Paul Cornes, Sustainability Director, PRUPIM
There are approximately 1.8 million non-domestic buildings in the UK and 24 million dwellings. Together, these buildings account for:
• 44% of CO2 emissions
• 62% of waste generated
• 60% of water used
This workshop will explore low and no-cost options to reduce your centre's environmental footprint, illustrated by successful case studies from the UK. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for discussion.
 
2. Retail manager liaison
Richard Exton, Customer's Relationship Manager, Meadowhall
This breakout session is based on an actual scenario where a major incident occurred in a shopping centre resulting in temporary closure of the centre. The session will discuss experiences and lessons learnt by the centre management team and show how positive retailer relations helped to overcome a very difficult situation.
 
3. Getting the best out of your agency
Geoffrey Bean, Partner, Tomlin Bean

Nick Tomlin, Partner, Tomlin Bean
This informative and interactive seminar gives useful tips on how shopping centre managers, asset managers and marketing professionals can improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of their agency’s creative output. Areas covered include briefings, meetings, reporting and budgeting. Come with a blank sheet of paper, a pen and an open mind.
 
4. Asset management and the New Lease Code
Charles Woollam, Director, DTZ

In a fully interactive session, delegates are invited to tackle an everyday management situation at a shopping centre and formulate a strategy to extract best value for the owners. This lively and informative session will also highlight the limitations and opportunities embedded in the Code for Leasing Business Premises in England & Wales 2007 (more commonly known as The New Lease Code).
 
5. Environmental lease obligations for landlords and tenants - who pays?
Lisa Barge, Partner, Real Estate Litigation, Eversheds LLP
David Feist, Associate, Real Estate Litigation, Eversheds LLP

Paul Moorcroft, Partner & Head of Real Estate Litigation, Central Region, Eversheds LLP

What, if anything, are landlords entitled to ask of tenants to ensure retailers operate their premises in a way which addresses environmental and sustainability concerns? What are tenants entitled to expect of landlords? Critically, when procuring services, what if the environmentally friendly way of doing things is not necessarily the cheapest? What, in terms of upcoming legislation or legislative proposals, will set the agenda for change in this area over the coming years?
 
6. Retail crime: Whose problem is it? Creating safer shopping environments
Anne Tate, Chief Executive, Northumbria Coalition Against Crime
Rick Ball, Community Safety Sergeant, North Yorkshire Police

This session challenges our views that crime is only a problem for police to deal with. Through interactive role-play, we examine the scale and organised nature of retail crime, how retail environments contribute to the problem, why crime isn’t being reported, and how this impacts on customers and staff. We draw on case studies and the audiences’ personal experiences to illustrate how simple information sharing processes can be effective in reducing crime, violence against staff and anti-social behaviour, and how a new National Intelligence Sharing Alliance can benefit us all by creating safer shopping environments for customers, safer working environments for staff and by protecting profits and investments.
 
7. Crisis management best practice: How to protect your people, your customers and your reputation
Eddie Bensilum, Director, Regester Larkin
Anna Stewart, Managing Partner, Centre for Crisis Psychology

Katherine Williscroft, Consultant, Regester Larkin
This fast-moving, interactive workshop will explore and discuss best practice in response to a catastrophic event at a shopping centre. Facilitated by crisis management and trauma care experts, delegates will gain practical experience and advice including how to balance challenges and potential conflicts when managing a crisis e.g. legal v communications, internal organisational/business pressures v external perceptions and attitudes. Delegates will also gain an understanding of the importance of providing trauma support for customers, employees and concerned relatives.
 
8. Commercialisation: Enhancing the customer experience or adding value for the asset owner - an overview of the history and future of commercialisation
Byron Lewis, Lewis Commercialisation

Over the past five years the commercialisation of shopping centres in the UK has experienced exponential growth and is now considered a core part of asset and property management. There are many implications as a result of this growth. This session is designed to provide background and insight in the development of commercialisation and in particular present how future commercialisation trends can be successfully integrated into strategic asset planning while maintaining a harmonious balance among retailer relationships, customer experience and owners' interests.
 
9. Freight consolidation and remote storage
Richard Jones, Technical Director, WSP Development and Transportation
James Outterside, Engineer, WSP Development and Transportation

This session focuses on the emerging Freight Consolidation and Remote Storage Research Study, that is being conducted in collaboration between the British Council for Shopping Centres and WSP Development and Transportation. This study investigates the applicability of freight consolidation to modern shopping centres, particularly in town and city centre environments. The benefits which freight consolidation can bring to the design and operation of shopping centres will be discussed during the session and feedback incorporated within the emerging study.
   
   
The organisers reserve the right to make any changes to the workshop programme, speakers and timings.
 


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