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Programme
| Thursday, 13 July 2006 | |
| 8:00 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 - 17:30 | Exhibition Open |
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Reliable Research in Transparency-starved Markets
In most real estate markets around the world, access to reliable transparent data provides the basis upon which to build, to invest and to lease. In Asia-Pacific, a lot of development is undertaken with less reliance on research and more on instinct. How can research be developed and applied to aid in more informed decision-making? Moderator Michael P. Niemira, Staff Vice President, Chief Economist, Director of Research, ICSC, USA Panelist Sebastian Skiff, Managing Director, Cushman and Wakefield (Korea) Ltd, South Korea Additional panelists to be announced. |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Prospecting for Tenants The shopping centre development boom in Asia and Middle East creates the need for a comprehensive strategy to identify, locate, entice and cultivate retail tenants. How can you analyse and evaluate your shopping centre with an eye towards devising and implementing a tenant prospecting strategy to ensure you have the right tenants in your property? Panelists Mario Guitterez, Vice President-Product Management, Plain Vanilla Shell, USA Shuichi Hidaka, Managing Director, Parco(Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore Phil McArthur, CSM , Director of Leasing & Marketing, Dubai Festival City, ICSC Trustee, UAE |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Retailing Across Borders Selling in a new market requires much more than the logistics of getting your products into stores with exotic addresses. It requires a thorough understanding of local demographics, psychographics, legal structures, currency and political risk analysis. Once you have done your due diligence on these important topics, it is likely that your standard business model will need rethinking. Learn how to research your target market and adjust your business model to ensure success. Moderator Robert Welanetz, SCSM , CEO, Shanghai Kinghill Limited, ICSC Trustee, China Panelists Karen Eidsvik, Regional Director Asia, Subway International B.V., Singapore Additional panelists to be announced. |
| 15:30 - 16:45 | What is the “Asia Opportunity”? Nearly 40 percent of the world's population resides in China and India. Beyond being the world’s largest countries, their economies are two of the world’s fastest growing. With economic development comes an evolving demand for modern retail facilities. In both China and India, however, the retail real estate evolution seems to have morphed into a revolution with more than 300 US-styled malls already in operation or in the pipeline in each country. At the same time, the situation in Southeast Asia seems to have fully recovered from the economic crisis of the late 1990s and the good times are back. Can the region sustain this growth? Which markets are for real? What will the retail real estate landscape look like in the future? Panelists B.S. Nagesh, Customer Care Associate & Managing Director & CEO, Shopper’s Stop Ltd, India Additional panelists to be announced. |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 | End of Expo |
Note: Topics, speakers and time are subject to change.