Topics covered in this edition:

Retail Focus
Luxury brands and the economic meltdown
One of the major topics at this year’s ICSC Asia Expo was luxury brands. Despite the current buffeting by some nasty economic headwinds, luxe is clearly in Asia/Middle East to stay.


Case Study
Gateway Theatre of Shopping, Durban, South Africa
How management at one of the largest shopping centres in the southern hemisphere made effective use of its own data to overcome a tenant revolt and launch tenant consulting/training
programmes that improved fi nancial returns.


Outside the Box
The yawning Asia/Middle East info‐gap
Improvement in the collection and dissemination of data that is crucial to the effi cient functioning of any country’s retail industry is very slow in coming across the Asia/Middle East
region. ICSC has launched one initiative but much more needs
to be done by governments, private industry and non-profits. Otherwise, the risks of adverse retail outcomes will escalate to dangerous levels in some countries.

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