Alex has brewery over a barrel

Wiltshire brewery, Arkell’s will take delivery of over £200,000 of new beer barrels over the next five years.

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Haskoll wins refurbishment project on Finland’s biggest shopping centre

Award-winning architects Haskoll have commenced a €90 million project to renovate Itäkeskus, Finland’s largest shopping centre first opened in 1984.   When completed in 2014, the centre will be repositioned and reaffirmed as the country’s leading shopping centre.

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Investors fly to sustainable rental values.

Investors are not flying to prime, but to sustainable rental values, according to a panel of investors at this year’s ICSC European Conference in Berlin. Risk-averse investors are also concentrating on core European markets.

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Department stores must reinvent to survive.

Department stores need to reinvent themselves to survive, according to three quarters of delegates at the annual ICSC European Conference in Berlin.  Only 5% of the 550 conference delegates, thought the exiting format could be sustained.

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E-Commerce remains biggest challenge for developers, conference hears.

True multi channel retailing has yet to be seen in its perfect form, according to Alexander Otto, Chief Executive Officer at ECE Projektmanagement.

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Alexander Otto announced ICSC’s new European Chair

Alexander Otto, Chief Executive Officer at ECE has been announced as Chair of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) European Advisory Board. The ICSC is the premier global trade association of the shopping-centre industry.

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Campaign to Protect Rural England Glos Budget response

Misguided planning rhetoric

Responding to yesterday’s Budget statement the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) condemned the Chancellor’s rhetoric on planning as misguided and dangerous. The group also expressed deep concerns about the Government’s transport strategy.

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Morgan Beddoe boosts staff numbers

Other estate agencies may be shedding staff, but leading Bristol estate agency Morgan Beddoe has appointed a new business development manager at its Whiteladies Road office.

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National Trust Director General to give keynote Glos speech

The Campaign to Protect Rural England’s (CPRE)’s Gloucestershire Branch has announced that the Director General of the National Trust, Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, will give the keynote speech at its AGM in on 11th July at Stowell Park by kind permission of Lord Vestey.

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Not just here for the beer

More than 100 people turned out for this year’s Arkell’s Publican’s Information day at the brewery in Swindon.  One man was so keen not to miss it that after a hard day’s work in London he drove straight to the brewery rather than heading home.

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