Companies Sponsoring this April

A global commercial real estate services leader, we will never settle for the world that's been built, but relentlessly drive it forward. We help our clients uncover opportunities big and small by curating customer experiences and discovering the best locations for every retail and leisure business to grow. Backed by data and loaded with insights, we help our clients make better decisions under any market conditions.

FHP Property Consultants are the leading Retail and Leisure Agents in the Midlands and winners of the EGi most active Retail Agent in the East Midlands for the last 14 years and 5th most active in the UK in 2023. FHP act on shopping centres across the Midlands including; Victoria Centre Nottingham, Derbion Derby, Three Spires Lichfield, The Gracechurch Sutton Coldfield, Sailmakers Ipswich, Wulfrun Wolverhampton, Peak Village Derbyshire, St Marks Newark & Pescod Square Boston. FHP are acquisition agents for Lidl, Dunkin’, BEAR, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Pizza Pilgrims, The Tap House, Puddle Ducks, Mobile Lab, dji x Hasselblad, Thai Express, Pudding Pantry, Birds Bakery, Caffe Rizzoli Prosecco Bar, Doughnotts & One Stop.

Park Place Retail, established in November 2023, specialise in occupational and investment agency within the out of town retail sector. The agency team comprises of six partners and are instructed across 23 million sq ft of retail park assets for a mix of institutional and private clients.As well as this, the team are retained by the following occupiers: Currys, Halfords, Hobbycraft, JD Sports and Wickes.

Lidl GB is the fastest growing supermarket in Great Britain, with over 960 stores, 14 regional distribution centres and over 32,000 colleagues across the country. Since opening its first stores in1994, the discounter has enhanced choice in towns and cities up and down the country by providing all households with access to good food at affordable prices. Lidl has long taken a flexible approach to delivering new stores and will consider freehold, leasehold, and developer transactions along with more flexible store formats in London.

Mason Partners is a firm of Chartered Surveyors and commercial property consultants with offices in London and Liverpool. They have been practicing since 1993. Mason Partners are a private practice specialising in the retail market throughout the UK. Our expertise has gained the confidence of numerous retailers, institutions and property companies who have retained our services repeatedly to seek out advice on a wide range of issues including retail agency, rating, rent reviews, asset management and building services etc.  Retained retail clients include Superdrug, Iceland, Savers, Poundstretcher, Wren, Boots, Sports Direct, Next, Dixons, Taco Bell, Dunkin, Three and The Works. We also advise Virgin Active on all their property matters.

The Gym Group was established in 2008 and currently has 235 gyms open across the UK, offering no contract low-cost gym memberships, within a high quality and welcoming environment. The business was successfully floated on the London Stock Exchange in November 2015, making it the only listed gym operator in the UK, with low levels of debt and therefore offering the best covenant within the sector.  With a healthy balance sheet, the business is looking to continue their nationwide expansion plans, with a strong focus on breaking down barriers to fitness for all, in turn delivering upon its sustainability and social value targets.

Green Street is the pre-eminent provider of actionable commercial real estate research, news, data, analytics, and advisory services in the U.K., Europe, U.S., and Canada. For nearly 40 years, Green Street has delivered unparalleled intelligence and trusted data on the public and private real estate markets, helping investors, banks, lenders, and other industry participants optimise investment and strategic decisions. Coming soon, Green Street’s Retail Analytics Pro will bring together enhanced analytics, unique health index, comprehensive data, and real-time insights from Local Data Company (LDC) and Local Data Online (LDO) to power strategic planning for retail, property and local authorities with best-in-class proprietary data and insights on the entire GB retail and leisure markets. Green Street delivers exclusive market information, conclusion-driven insights, and predictive analytics through a SaaS platform.

Offering delicious great quality food at competitive prices has been at the heart of what we do since John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury opened our first store in 1869. Today, inspiring and delighting our customers with tasty food remains our priority and our purpose is clear – we make good food joyful, accessible and affordable for everyone, every day. Our property team plays a vital role making it easier for customers to shop with us whenever and wherever they want and we’re opening new stores to provide greater choice and flexibility, developing our estate across the UK. We’re proud to have one of the largest store portfolios in the UK.

Morgan Williams is a specialist investment, retail and development adviser with an active involvement across all commercial property sectors. Established in 1994, the firm’s ethos has always been to provide clients with ‘best-in-class’ advice on all aspects of maximising value from commercial property. We take pride in establishing long-term working relationships with our clients, on a personal, honest and confidential basis. We are consistently ranked within the top 5 retail and investment teams in the UK.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is an owner, developer and operator of sustainable, high-quality real estate assets in Europe and the United States. The Group operates 72 shopping centres in 12 countries, including 38 which carry the Westfield brand. These centres attract over 900 million visits annually. URW is a committed partner to major cities on urban regeneration projects, through both mixed-use development and the retrofitting of buildings to industry-leading sustainability standards. These commitments are enhanced by the Group’s Better Places plan, which strives to make a positive environmental, social and economic impact on the cities and communities where URW operates.

Destination stations - At Network Rail, we manage the busiest travel hubs in Great Britain, with over 700 million people passing through our 19 stations each year.   Under our management these stations have become destinations; where travellers, non-travellers and the local community can come together to shop, eat and drink. We gather first party passenger insights, and combine with the latest industry trends and station developments, to ensure that we are offering a best-in-class experience at our destinations. We are the partner of choice for any business considering the travel market. Through long term leases, or short-term pop-ups, exciting opportunities are available for established or emerging brands.

Edgerley Simpson Howe (ESH) is a niche agency specialising in the retail warehouse, leisure and foodstore sectors throughout the UK. We also provide advice to clients in the commercial roadside market, self storage, gyms, hotels, retirement and care home sectors. ESH is a leading adviser in the edge and out-of-town property market, providing bespoke advice relating to investment sales and purchases; lettings; asset management, occupier acquisitions and disposals; property development; rent reviews, lease restructuring and renewals. We asset manage over 120 retail and leisure parks, developments, solus units and foodstores totalling over 10 million sq ft in England, Wales and Scotland.

For over 40 years EYCO have been immersed in the retail property market, gaining an in-depth understanding of occupiers’ and owners’ requirements. We will provide you with objective and impartial advice backed up by a highly experienced team, substantial market knowledge and activity. Clients include: Primark, Next, Boots, Starbucks, Tesco, B&Q, Asda, Co-op, Schuh, Azzurri Restaurants, Pizza Express, Byron, British Land, The Crown Estate, Aviva, Ares, Nuveen, Brookfield, Sovereign Centros, Ellandi, M&G, Hines UK, NewRiver Retail, Scoop and LCP.

We’re passionate about delivering hot, great-tasting, freshly handcrafted pizzas to customers. This relentless focus has helped us become the UK’s leading pizza brand, and a major player in the Republic of Ireland.   Since opening the first Domino’s store in the UK in 1985, we now have over 1,300 stores across the UK and Republic of Ireland and more than 35,000 team members. Last year, we sold over 112 million freshly handcrafted pizzas.   We’re committed to offering choice, and with thousands of combinations on our menu, customers have plenty of options. Our pizzas are made with great quality sourced ingredients, such as creamy 100% mozzarella, vine-ripened tomato sauce, and our signature fresh dough.

CSP’s sole business is providing high quality occupational advice to occupiers, landlords and developers in the out-of-town retail and leisure market.  Founded in 2010 with offices in London and Manchester, CSP offers dedicated agency and asset management advice, built on extensive market knowledge, diverse contacts and bringing a unique value to both occupiers and landlords.   CSP and Staunton Whiteman announced the formation of a strategic alliance in 2016 to become a leading integrated property advisory firm in the out-of-town sector. The entity combines CSP’s controlling position in the agency sector, with Staunton Whiteman’s many years of experience advising on commercial property investments’.

Savills' business spirit is innovative and resilient. We prioritise a thorough understanding of our customers' businesses, not just a narrow focus on the property market. We have well-established national teams across Out-of-Town Retail, Lease Consultancy, Central London, Shopping Centres and the High Street sectors, as well as our Retail Repurposing Team. Our vision, anticipating change, delivers added value for maximum performance to the benefit of our customers' businesses across the full property spectrum. We relish the challenge of helping your organisation fulfill its commercial aims, whilst also being at the forefront of the ESG agenda.

For 160 years, Transport for London has kept London moving. It has been one of the city’s biggest innovators; an inventive creator and creative designer. Places for London, TfL’s new and financially independent property company, is its latest innovation. We are here to unlock more of the potential of TfL land, creating a greener, kinder and more connected London for everyone.   As part of TfL, we’ve been supporting over 1,500 businesses in stations, railway arches and on high streets. Now, as Places for London, we’re working to release more of the untapped opportunity in TfL’s property to create more of the spaces that Londoners need to thrive.

Sovereign Centros from CBRE. Sovereign Centros is one of the UK’s most successful Real Estate Asset Management and Development Management businesses working alongside some of the world’s leading investors and institutions.    With a 50 year track record and 20 million sq ft of assets under management, Sovereign Centros are leaders in retail, leisure and mixed-use asset management, investment and development.  It’s highly experienced and quality Asset Management and Development Management team works for global private equity, banking and finance groups, institutional investors and occupiers.

We’re an owner and operator of retail and hospitality destinations across the UK including Bluewater, Trinity, Gunwharf Quays, One New Change and more. Our shopping centres, outlets and London spaces are in prime, catchment dominant locations.   We believe in partnering with brands: their success is our success. And we are investing in the future of Retail: putting over £100m into our destinations over the next three years so they deliver what our consumers need and want.

PoGo Charge is your trusted partner in creating sustainable revenue streams by converting your land into a vital EV charging network. With our extensive experience and commitment to reliability, we're here to energise your property and our planet. At PoGo, we're more than just a charging network; we're your partner in electrifying adventures. Our rapid and ultra-rapid chargers supercharge your EV, ensuring you're ready for exciting journeys whenever inspiration strikes. Join us in powering up your EV experience and discovering the world, one adventure at a time.

Mytraffic redefines the location intelligence category by providing easy access, precise and accurate information on any physical location in real-time in Europe. We support organizations in many different sectors (Retail, Real Estate, Consulting companies, Cities, Consumer Goods, Advertising etc.) to help them expand their businesses, increase the performance of managed assets, optimize marketing reach and benchmark their results with competition. Our unique platform transforms multiple data sources into actionable insights (dynamic footfall, vehicle flow, visitor profiling) at scale, with respect to the strictest GDPR compliance rules. Mytraffic closed a €30 Million Series B funding in September 2022 with AXA Venture Partners (AVP).

Thon Eiendom is the Olav Thon Group's real estate division. We rent out premises adapted for offices, shops, restaurants, warehouses and housing. We also sell homes and holiday apartments. – All in central and attractive areas.

CBRE’s 110 - strong Retail team is the largest in the market covering retail, F&B and leisure across the whole of the UK. With occupier knowledge at the heart of our business, we have a unique insight into the factors that are shaping the retail market across the UK. We provide a full range of services from leasing to full acquisition roles, including property location reviews, leveraging relationships, negotiation and execution. Our unrivalled market knowledge and insight drives value for investors and occupiers, through renewing or regearing leases, reviewing rents, and managing complex leasing or acquisition strategies.

Pradera Lateral is the UK’s leading specialist Retail & Leisure Asset Management business. The business combines Pradera’s 24-year history in Continental Europe and Asia with Lateral’s 14-year history in the UK.  The business has global experience as a fund, investment and asset manager along with UK market expertise in covering retail asset management, leasing, commercialisation and events, development, planning and construction.   Pradera Lateral manage a number of the UK’s most high-profile flagship assets including Trafford Centre, Manchester and  Eldon Square, Newcastle; The business also advises credit funds on their investments in high profile shopping centres across the UK and Ireland.

The UK’s Most Innovative Mobility and Demographics Data Insights Provider - Geolocation and mobility data that provides users with cost effective, bespoke solution to help understand current and historic changes in catchment demographics, dwell time, popular locations, visitor preferences, engagement, space usage, visitor patterns and pedestrian journeys.

Aldi believes in making everyday amazing and delivering the best possible value for customers.  In the last couple of years, we've seen a new generation of savvy shoppers turning their backs on traditional, full-price supermarkets and it is this behaviour shift that has supercharged our growth.  With over 1,020 stores and more than 45,000 colleagues, Aldi plans to continue its ambitious growth strategy and increase its portfolio to over 1,500 stores, providing significant development opportunities across the UK.  We're looking to create partnership opportunities to support our ambitious expansion plans.

At CACI we do amazing things with data and we know customers better than anyone else. We work with property developers and high street brands to reveal fascinating insights about how people interact with place using detailed catchment, demographic, spend and movement data. Working with CACI means you have access to a team of experts that eat, sleep, and breathe location intelligence. There is no other team out there that has access to such accurate and detailed data. Supported by their insight, you can be confident in your location strategy decisions.

At M&S, we are reshaping for growth and our store rotation programme is key – making sure we have the right stores, in the right place and with the right space to excite and inspire our customers. We are rotating to 180 full-line stores and 420 foodhalls, offering the very best of M&S, and providing significant investment opportunities. Our new and renewed stores are delivering strong returns and attracting new customers. We are always on the lookout for great sites and offer a finder’s fee of 10% of rent or 1.5% of purchase price. For further information, please review our site requirements flyer or speak to a member of our Acquisitions Team to discuss.

Estama is an employee owned business that excels in providing top-tier Asset, Property, and Investment Management services.    Specialising in retail, but with extensive experience across all property sectors, we work with Institutional and Independent Funds, Lenders, Local Authorities, and Private Equity partners.    Our commitment lies in delivering realistic and deliverable results, ensuring exceptional value for investors.   Our extensive experience and integrated approach, allows us to establish a clear strategy and vision for every stage of an investment's lifecycle. The way Estama is carefully structured, means we can start delivering net operating income from day one.   With a current portfolio of shopping centres under management, Estama delivers tangible value throughout the retail market from the community/convenience to the upscale segment of the retail sector.

Launched in 2009, Pure Gym are the largest gym operator in the UK, the second largest in Europe and fourth biggest globally, with over 400 trading sites across the UK and over 2 million members! We offer Landlords an exceptional covenant, a high quality fit out and a strong brand to enhance tenant line up and drive footfall. We are more than 3x more profitable than our nearest competitor and undoubtedly the Gym operator of choice for Landlords and Developers. We have a range of formats to suit all markets and are seeking new opportunities from 5,000 - 20,000 sq.ft on roadside, retail parks and in shopping centres, prominent industrial units, and residential blocks, preferably with parking on sites outside of London.

Our retailer client base includes the UK’s most successful and profitable operators who require swift, innovative, defining real estate advice across their portfolios. The knowledge acquired in delivering the changes required to the occupiers physical estates as a result of the omni-channel world allows us to also advise and service our Landlord clients both institutional and development, on the ever evolving physical requirements retailers need to respond to in our fast changing market. We operate under the single overarching umbrella of the retail market, encompassing High Street, Retail and Shopping Park , Leisure and Shopping Centres, rather than the traditional and historic model of “in and out” of town, from two offices in London and Manchester covering the whole of the UK and Ireland.

Nimbus, the UK's leading proptech company, offers an innovative online property intelligence platform fuelled by extensive data from over 1000 different sources. Trusted by property professionals nationwide, Nimbus streamlines decision-making by providing comprehensive information in one user-friendly interface, empowering investors, developers, and surveyors to seize opportunities and more easily engage with property owners. Saving property professionals 80% of their research time, Nimbus is designed to maximise their efficiency, allowing more time to focus on relationship building and identifying opportunities. Founded in 2015 by Paul and Simon Davis, Nimbus has revolutionised the UK property market with its data-driven approach. With a focus on technology and backed by decades of industry expertise, Nimbus is a continually evolving platform, enhancing the property journey for countless clients annually.

M Core is an established, highly profitable collective of property investment and management companies. United Kingdom, France, Poland, Romania, Germany, Spain - wherever we operate, we’re committed to three things: our investment partners, our tenants and our team. Considered, thoughtful, long-term, growth and stability, for our business and everyone we work with.

Hello, we're Greggs .... .... a leading food-on-the-go retailer with over 2300 shops nationwide and 29000+ employees. We specialise in great tasting food that you can take just about anywhere! Including our iconic Vegan Sausage Roll, fresh daily-made sandwiches and freshly-ground Fairtrade coffee. The Greggs Pledge is our way of doing more to help people, protect the planet and work with partners to improve our communities and the world. We continue to improve our estate and shop formats as well as adding to our product range. Our Business plan is to continue to grow our estate by opening 150 net new shops on a yearly basis.  We are currently building a pipeline of new sites for 2024 and beyond which include Drive Thru's, Transport Hubs, Roadside, Retail Park and Shopping Centres.

Restaurant Brands International Inc. and Bridgepoint came together in 2017 to create a Master Franchise joint venture ‘BKUK’ to build on the established commercial success of the Burger King brand in the UK. BKUK is focused on growth with plans to open 40 new restaurants a year, adding 160 by 2028. Burger King as a brand in the UK is currently operating 572 restaurants; 293 of these BKUK owned. Expansion is our key strategic objective, which means we’re interested in opening across a broad range of trading locations from Drive-Thrus to High Streets and Retail Parks.

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) was founded in Sweden in 1947 and is quoted on Nasdaq Stockholm. H&M’s business idea is to offer fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way. In addition to H&M, the group includes the brands COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M HOME and ARKET. For further information, visit hmgroup.com  

The McDonald’s brand is globally recognised and is the world’s largest chain of quick service restaurants.  Trading in the UK since 1974, the company trades from more than 1,450 restaurants across the UK and Ireland and is one of the UK’s largest private sector employers with more than 135,000 employees. The business is continuing to expand, and we are looking to open hundreds of new stores across a range of formats – Drive Thru and Drive To restaurants in out of town/edge of town roadside locations; adjacent to supermarkets, retail and leisure parks and on arterial roads.

The Crown Estate is focused on developing destinations to meet the needs of todays and future generations across our portfolio in the UK. Collectively, we attract over 175 million visitors each year to our destinations. Taking a long-term view with our investment, development and partnership decisions enables us to think differently; creating value for our visitors, our partners, our communities and the UK. Well designed, well located and well managed are the principles that guide our portfolio. In an increasingly competitive retail environment, experience has never been more important, which is why we invest time, money and expertise to get these fundamental components right.

We are a leading independent EV charging infrastructure development company delivering a range of EV charging infrastructure services across the UK, Europe, the US and worldwide Delivering scalable, fast, economically viable solutions. Fully funded end-to-end models, using the best-in-class technology.

British Land’s shopping centres and retail parks are among the best in the UK Our purpose is to create and manage outstanding places which deliver positive outcomes for all our stakeholders on a long term, sustainable basis. We call this Places People Prefer. Our portfolio is focussed on three key sectors, of which 35% is made up of retail. We are the largest retail park owner and operator in the UK with 80 individual assets at 98.4% occupancy. Our parks are located in prime locations and are home to some of the biggest brands in retail. We are experts at nurturing and curating our parks, so they deliver for our customers and their visitors.

Global Mutual is a European and U.S. real estate business founded in 2008, which specialises in investment and asset management on behalf of institutional and private capital. The company currently manages £5 billion of assets across a broad range of real estate sectors and strategies; including prime shopping centres, factory outlets and high-street parades. The company has a fully integrated platform which provides investors and clients access to a broad disciplinary base of expertise and judgement built over multiple market cycles to enable the creation, protection and enhancement of asset value.

Hammerson is a cities business. An owner, operator, and developer of prime urban real estate, with a portfolio value of £4.7billion in some of the fastest growing cities in the UK, Ireland and France. Our assets are high profile and play an important role in our communities, welcoming more than 180 million visitors each year and supporting over 23k jobs though our retail, dining, and social occupiers. These destinations include Bullring in Birmingham, The Oracle in Reading, Dundrum Estate, Dublin, and Terraces du Port in Marseille. We also hold investments in Value Retail, best-in-class villages such as Bicester Village, Oxfordshire as well as 80 acres of attractive pre-development and strategic land.

SLR are market leaders in leisure-based outlets, delivering innovative solutions from development to asset management and operation.  Our two major schemes are Scotch Corner Designer Village and Springfields Outlet & Leisure.  Scotch Corner Designer Village, opening in 2026, is enjoying very high pre-let demand, and will be the foremost leisure & outlet destination in the North of England with 4M footfall. Springfields is the leading outlet and leisure destination in the East of England and is continuing to outperform in 2024, with sales +21% v pre covid levels, on the back of 18 years of continuous turnover growth, bar-lockdowns. Contact us to learn more.

JLL Retail & Hospitality are actively engaged in leasing some of the largest retail and leisure destinations in the UK and advising some of the biggest global brands. The team has market leading experience in delivering results for shopping centres together with cinemas, leisure, restaurants, and F&B. We work with our Landlord clients to attract and retain the best tenants with a compelling leasing and marketing strategy. The focus is to maximise the value of our clients’ assets with innovative investment, location, and redevelopment advice.

We are part of thousands of communities around the UK, and as a business we want to make a positive difference through the local causes we support. Our Stronger Starts grant programme supports thousands of local community groups and good causes, with priority given to those projects that provide food and support to young people, and we have donated more than 145 million meals to community groups since 2015 through our Community Food Connection programme. Tesco has committed is to reach net zero in our group-wide operations by 2035 and when building new stores, we consider sustainability at all stages of the process.

Founded in London in 1971 by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, Costa Coffee is present in 45 countries around the world, with 2800+ coffee shops in the UK & Ireland and 1,300+ globally.  We are proud to be the Nation’s Favourite coffee shop, having been awarded ‘Best Branded Coffee shop Chain’ in the UK & Ireland by Allegra Strategies for 14 consecutive years.   Costa Coffee UK & Ireland has an ongoing acquisition programme across growth channels of drive thru, retail/shopping parks and travel together with a strategy of relocating and upsizing the existing high street store estate where appropriate.  The Property team look forward to discussing opportunities for further expansion.

The Co-op offers people award-winning food near to where they live and work, in handy-sized shops, open at convenient times. We’re growing fast. We’ve opened around 500 new stores in the last five years, our like-for-like sales continue to increase and we’re still acquiring. We’re looking for leasehold sites, of up to 5,000 sq ft gross, in locations highly visible from the road, close to transport hubs, new housing developments or district centres. We’re also interested in existing businesses with a net sales area of over 1,500 sq ft. We’re competitive, quick to respond and happy to retain introducing agents.

At Newmark, we understand retail. We provide market-leading advice and insight, offering a full-service real estate package to a wide range of retailers and occupiers of leisure and hospitality property. Working with established international brands and start-up companies alike, we work hard to deliver exactly what they need. Many successful retailers trust us with all their real estate needs. We provide tailored services for retail and leisure real estate in the UK and internationally. Through our parent company, the New York-based Newmark Group, we work closely with European companies entering the USA and American companies entering Europe.

Chaiiwala, UK’s leading Indian street food cafe is ready to tantalise your customers' taste buds.  Fresh, authentic flavours with a Western twist come together in our vibrant cafes, alongside our world-famous Karak Chaii.  Uncompromising quality and service ensure a memorable experience that keeps them coming back for more.  Join Chaiiwala and add a new offering to your portfolio.

Headquartered in Leeds, ASDA is the UK’s third-largest supermarket by market share, employing more than 150,000 colleagues and serving over 18m customers every week in its stores and online.   ASDA has a long heritage in providing customers with low prices and in June 2023 was crowned the UK’s lowest-priced supermarket by the Grocer magazine for the 27th consecutive year.   In October 2020, ASDA was acquired from Walmart by the Issa brothers and TDR Capital. In 2023 Asda confirmed the acquisitions of 119 Co-op fuel sites with attached convenience stores and EG Group’s UK business, bringing the total store count to 1000 for the first time in its history.