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Melbourne 2023 Exhibitors & Sponsors
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Mainbrace Constructions
Booth 101
At Mainbrace, we care about our clients, people, projects, community, and planet – and we strive to create value and impact in a way that is authentic, responsible, sustainable, and meaningful. We believe that by working together towards common goals and values, we can make a positive difference and contribute to a brighter future for all.
As Australia’s leading and most experienced retail builder, we do more than create inspired retail experiences. We build from the ground up, we know how to keep a live site trading and we know how to keep costs down – all while making sure you open on time. We constantly challenge and question processes, tools and techniques to ensure we get the best outcome for your project and our business.
At Mainbrace, it’s never just one project. It’s the beginning of a positive working relationship that always puts the project’s needs first.
Elanor Investors Group
Booth 601
Established in 2009, Elanor Investors Group (“Elanor” or “Group”) is an ASX listed (ASX:ENN) Australian real estate funds management business, managing over $2.7 billion of real estate investments across Australia and New Zealand.
The key strategic objective of the Group is to identify and originate high investment quality real estate assets and deliver strong investment returns for both Elanor’s funds management capital partners and Elanor securityholders.
Elanor’s investment focus is on acquiring and unlocking value in real estate assets that deliver superior risk adjusted returns for Elanor’s private and institutional capital partners.
Acquisition opportunities are evaluated through a value-for-risk and sustainability lens. Elanor’s highly active approach to asset management is underpinned with urgency and an acute focus on delivering investment outperformance.
The Group’s key real estate investment sectors of focus are the commercial office, healthcare, retail, and hotels, tourism and leisure sectors.
Franklin Shanks
Lanyard Sponsor
Franklin Shanks is a boutique tenant advisory and tenant representation firm. We don’t act for landlords, and we don’t manage buildings. We simply represent occupiers all day, every day. With offices in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong, we help our clients to understand, procure and manage their property portfolio for ongoing growth and profitability.
Our team of highly skilled professionals use their ‘big firm’ and extensive client-side retail industry experience to deeply understand your needs, challenge market norms and put you first, every time. With 25+ years background in retail operations, our Head of Retail takes a holistic approach to your property strategy and leasing negotiations; ensuring your stores and your back of house fit the needs of your business by reducing costs, building in flexibility and minimising risk.
Stockland
Booth 507
Stockland is one of the largest retail property owners, developers and managers in Australia. The Stockland portfolio allows your brand to reach a large and engaged customer base, with opportunities nationally.
Stockland’s retail portfolio of 21 retail town centres generate ~$5.9 billion in retail sales per annum*. The portfolio has retail properties located across NSW, QLD, VIC and WA. Enquire today to discover exciting opportunities with Stockland.
S Connect is Stockland’s advertising, pop-up and partnerships offering. We have the power to connect our engaged and loyal shopping community with the brands and businesses they love – both big and small, national and local. From large advertising takeovers to sampling and pop-up spaces – we can curate a campaign or experience that’s right for you.
We invest in places where people feel proud to live, work and play.
Our portfolio comprises some of Australia’s busiest shopping centres, prime office buildings, dynamic public spaces and high-demand hotel accommodation.
Our properties are located in major urban growth areas throughout Australia, across 26 retail destinations, 9 office assets and 10+ town squares and civic amenities.
Our approach to design puts people at the heart of our places. Our diversified property portfolio is characterised by unrivalled public transport connectivity, localised design and strong community partnerships across retail, office, hotels and public realm.
Redpath Partners
Networking Drinks Reception Sponsor
Redpath Partners is a global recruitment company dedicated to the property and construction sector. Our focused approach and unmatched knowledge of the industry means we are well placed to offer tailored recruitment solutions that yield quick and successful results.
By continually immersing ourselves in the industry, we have built an admirable global network of clients and candidates, enabling us to leverage opportunities and provide valuable connections that no one else can. Our repeat client base is testament to the trusting, long-term partnerships we forge and the outstanding outcomes we deliver, time and time again.
Scentre Group
Booth 501
Scentre Group owns and operates an extraordinary platform of 42 Westfield Living Centres across Australia and New Zealand encompassing 12,000 outlets. Retail assets under management are valued at $50.4 billion with the Group’s ownership interests valued at $34.4 billion.
Our Purpose is creating extraordinary places, connecting and enriching communities. Our Plan is to create the places more people choose to come, more often for longer. Our Ambition is to grow by becoming essential to people and communities and the businesses that interact with them.
The strategic locations of our portfolio enables businesses to connect with more customers. More than 20 million people live within close proximity to a Westfield Living Centre.
TRG Australia
Booth 208
At TRG we are focused on retail design, construction documentation and project management. For over 30 years we have secured a solid reputation for providing innovative, economic and timely projects.
TRG has a strong working relationship with many prominent brands in Australia, The Pacific and Asia. Our dependable service has resulted in a trusted partnership with the thousands of retail and commercial projects we have been involved in. We are leaders in innovative supermarket design and have successfully completed large scale shopping centre developments, retail roll-outs, re-branding, commercial spaces, combined high-end multi-residential and other large scale developments.
Our building design services are specific to your activities and the promotion of a strong market image. Our construction documentation is thorough and precise, whilst our contract administration and project management services provide constant client contact to ensure you remain updated and in control.
Cushman & Wakefield
Booth 605
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. We are among the largest real estate services firms with 50,000 employees in over 400 offices globally.
As a company, our purpose is clear: we create meaningful value for our clients, our business, our shareholders, our people, our communities and world.
The Retail Team offers industry-leading performance and is the best placed agency to handle strategic retail leasing on behalf of complex clients. Our team has the expertise, experience, and resources to provide comprehensive, integrated, and innovative real estate services to retail occupiers, landlords, and Investors.
We deliver excellence regardless of the size, scope, or location of the assignment. Our team leverage industry experience, deep local knowledge, and a global perspective to market our client’s properties, align brands to opportunities, and provide intelligence for informed decision making.
Kepler Analytics
Booth 106
Kepler Analytics is a brick-and-mortar store analytics SaaS platform empowering retailers to drive sales using real-time customer traffic and behaviour data.
Currently more than 500 retailers, 30,000 locations in 35 countries use our system daily, including several Fortune 500 listed enterprises.
Our pioneering radio energy-based technology gives retailers the ability to measure shopper traffic and behaviour with a one-step install sensor. And our analytics software provides valuable insights and real-time alerts for immediate action across the store network.
CBRE
Booth 602
At CBRE we work in every dimension of commercial real estate. Our mission is to realise the potential in all the businesses and people we work with, so that together we can create the real estate solutions of the future.
We’re driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people and the diverse needs of our clients. From instilling confidence in investors today, to re-imagining property requirements for tomorrow, we thrive in complex and ever-changing environments.
With more than 200 years of experience, CBRE can offer thousands of possibilities through a single strategic advisor. With an unmatched Pacific network throughout New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand, we develop local market intelligence into measurable results for clients within or across all markets.
CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. Our global network spans across 90,000 employees in 450 offices over EMEA, the America’s and Asia Pacific – giving us access to unparalleled resources to help solve your most complex real estate challenges. We have a world-class reputation for turning challenges into opportunities.
CBRE’s size is more than just a functional attribute – we mobilise our scale and reach to collaborate and deliver exceptional client outcomes. We offer a single point of contact to an end-to-end platform of fully integrated services to realise your strategic objectives.
UNITA.
Booth 410
UNITA is your go-to partner for all your retail store construction and design needs. With a rich history in shopfitting, we have successfully built over 5000 retail stores globally and have become experts in creating great in-store experiences.
Our retail division specializes in providing design and construct services for the fashion, health & fitness, and service industries. We understand that in the retail industry, it is crucial to create a space that speaks to your brand and attracts customers.
At Unita, we guarantee a smooth and efficient project delivery, from planning to construction, ensuring that you get the best possible results. Whether it’s multi-site location builds, roll-outs, or boutique venue fit-outs, we can cater to your specific needs and deliver innovative and creative solutions that will help you stand out from your competitors. Trust us to bring your retail space to life and create an unforgettable shopping experience for your customers.
National Retail Associaiton
Booth 109
The National Retail Association is a not-for-profit organisation that represents the interests of retailers across Australia.
We exist to support, inform, protect and represent the interests of retailers and quick service restaurants. We understand the issues and opportunities facing retailers every day.
NRA Members can expect to receive the latest industry information, the fastest news updates and the best range of industry insights to help their business grow and succeed.
The retail industry plays a huge role in Australia’s economy, employment and greater livelihood and we are dedicated to helping unite retailers and stakeholders for the success of the industry now, and for the future.
Retail Life
Booth 304
Retail Life was founded with an energetic spirit and a single-minded vision: to breathe life into Australian retail.
Our mission is to bring back the joy and success of retail by equipping businesses with the tools to achieve through best practice operations, actionable learning, and a reinvigorated zest for doing what they do best.
Whether we’re cultivating the big picture assisting retailers to give their business wings or working with landlords to help their assets take flight, we’re always by your side, ensuring positively transformational outcomes.
Retail Life’s transformational Power Programs, Masterclasses, Conference Workshops and Retail Resources effect change in the areas of people and culture, customer service, inventory, marketing, and visual merchandising.
With a hands-on approach, Retail Life collaborates with shopping centre owners, landlords, national and independent retailers, franchises, business associations and local councils in their pursuit for sustainable performance and growth.
Contact us: [email protected] or 0419 277 656
City of Melbourne
Booth 204
Melbourne City Council is the local government body responsible for the municipality of Melbourne. The Council consists of a lord mayor, a deputy lord mayor and nine councillors, elected by the community. The Council is the decision-making body setting the strategic direction and policy of the municipality. Our four-year Council Plan sets out what Council will achieve during its four-year term to further the community vision.
For businesses in Melbourne, Council is here to facilitate and support your business and unlock your potential. Melbourne is projected to be the fastest-growing capital city from 2023–2024 and become the nation’s most populated city by 2030.
Our Economic Development and Invest Melbourne teams are here to help your business harness the opportunities that will come from our city’s growth and support your business to achieve success.
International Workplace Group
Booth 606
IWG is the global leader in hybrid work solutions and workspace brands. We create personal, financial, and strategic value for businesses of every size. From some of the most exciting companies and well-known organizations on the planet, to individuals and the next generation of industry leaders. All of them harness the power of IWG’s hybrid working platform to increase their productivity, efficiency, agility, and market proximity.
IWG’s unrivalled network coverage includes approximately, 3,500 locations across more than 120 countries and 83% of Fortune 500 companies are amongst our growing customer base. Through our brands including Regus, Spaces, HQ and Signature, we help millions of people and their businesses to work more productively. We do so by providing the world’s leading hybrid work platform with professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces and digital services all available via the IWG app.
Truis / Cisco
Booth 210
Truis was founded 40 years ago with a mission to create innovative IT solutions that align with our customer’s unique situations and ambitions. As technology has advanced and our client’s needs have evolved, so too have our capabilities and market coverage. Today, we are a multi-vendor software and hardware solutions partner who help clients across Australia and neighbouring countries to prosper and grow.
DEA Global
Booth 609
For over 30 years, DAE Global (David Atkins Enterprises) has been focused on creating unique experiences that seamlessly combine art and technology. We’re the team behind some of the world’s most iconic cultural moments from Olympic Ceremonies and mega festivals like White Night Melbourne, to more intimate, immersive theatrical productions and everything in between.
More recently we’ve been experimenting with formats for next-generation experiences in dynamic, new environments like Expo 2020 in Dubai. Seeing the power of creativity to transform the way people engage with spaces is what lead us to consider how this could be applied to the retail and property sectors here in Australia.
We call this Pulsemaking.
Pulsemaking works hand in hand with placemaking to build and sustain connection to precincts and developments with always-on art + culture created with inclusivity, sustainability and accessibility top of mind, ultimately encouraging repeat visitation to drive sales.
The Retail Score
Booth 402
The Retail Score provide analytics and insights using a managed data warehouse and a range of applications designed specifically for the Retail and Wholesale industry.
An integrated, single version of the truth with company-wide insights and dozens of supported data integrations to complement core ERP data.
A purpose-built platform to easily analyse and measure performance, across a range of retail measures that drive success.
We bring together all of the critical data necessary to run a retail operation and give key stakeholders confidence in the numbers – regardless of what tools they use to consume the data.
This empowers organisations to make the decisions that reduce risk, increase productivity, and deliver the greatest ROI.
Collectively, we have over 50 years of experience and it’s this retail intelligence that’s the reason we’re trusted by many of Australia’s best known retail brands.
Ainsworth Property
Booth 610
Ainsworth Property (A-P). We❤️Retail, established in 2021 during Melbourne’s rolling lockdowns, is a group of property professionals who identified a gap in the Retail Leasing market.
A-P/We ❤️ Retail has created a business focused solely on Retail Leasing. Our objective is to help landlords and retailers address their challenges or blockages. Our approach is built on hard work, data, 40 years of collective experience, and a touch of humour and fun.
PCL Lawyers
Booth 110
At PCL Lawyers we are a full-service law firm dedicated to delivering the highest standard of legal advice to our clients. Our expertise extends across various industries, and we cater to enterprises, organisations and individuals, providing comprehensive legal solutions in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
We understand the diverse legal needs of our clients and offer commercially sound advice across the entire business lifecycle. Our teams have the depth of experience across all Australian jurisdictions you need to get the right advice, and to high-quality advice and documentation including commercial, property, and litigation: from retail and commercial lease document preparation to lease negotiations to complex litigation and dispute resolution, we have it covered.
Our commercial leasing lawyers team prioritises effective communication, ensuring our clients fully comprehend their legal options and are empowered to make well-informed commercial decisions. Expect professionalism, responsiveness, and concise legal advice from our team.
Maras Group
Booth 201
Maras Group is a dynamic, privately owned and operated South Australian company. For over 40 years, the group has prided itself on being at the forefront of commercial and retail property investment and development.
The company is broadly considered to be one of the “pace-setters” in the South Australian market with a lengthy and impressive track record of quality and sustainable developments, underpinned by high calibre, long term occupiers.
The company is heavily committed to investment in South Australia and continues to develop with the view to holding its properties for the long term – giving its tenants (partners) confidence in forging strong, healthy relationships going forward.
Maras Group continues to grow its diverse commercial and retail property portfolio nationally, with several investments, particularly in the Melbourne and Sydney markets.
Pathzz
Booth 25
Pathzz is the next generation in consumer intelligence. We take the complexity of real world behaviour and instantly transform it into actionable insights to empower organisations to make better business decisions.
Actionable insights such as:
Competitor Monitoring – Monitor competitors’ reach, catchments, customer profiles and performance against your portfolio. Define battlegrounds and areas of high competition to capitalise on growth opportunities.
Marketing & Strategy – Plan, execute and measure effective marketing strategies with the ability to geo-target customer segments based on the latest behavioural trends.
Portfolio Optimisation – Pathzz enables you to monitor your stores’ performance, catchments, and customer profiles so that you can respond to changing customer behaviour & emerging demand.
Expansion – Instantly evaluate the suitability of potential store locations across the country. Benchmark your portfolio’s performance against new sites to forecast future performance.
Cannibalisation – Measure the potential and real impact of new store locations on your portfolio, minimise cannibalisation and maximise market share.
Which can help answer some of the most sought-after and fundamental questions, such as:
- How is my portfolio of stores performing against the competition?
- Which are the best locations for my next store?
- Are my customers changing both in demographics and shopping behaviour?
Powertec Wireless Technology
Booth 26 + WiFi Provider & Sponsor
Your Customer Experience keeps and attracts new clients with Powertec.
The driving force behind the development of the Powertec business is to deliver individual and business solutions to help stay connected. Powertec wireless communication products and solutions aim to make a difference in people’s lives and ensure they can communicate and be connected no matter where they may be.
Powertec has leading-edge products and solutions, Cellular (3G, 4G and 5G), Wi-Fi and IoT solutions inside and outside and including monthly coverage as a service option.
Our solutions are both flexible and scalable and provide a premium level of service for deployment scenarios such as:
- Retail Outlets/Shopping Centres
- Big box retail stores
- Small and medium-sized businesses (restaurants, cafes)
- Office building lobbies and underground carparks
- Government and Councils
- Conference centres
- VIP sections of public venues, stadiums and arenas
Powertec has proven deployed solutions within Australia and New Zealand from the largest retail groups, aged care, government, tourism, and local councils.
AVA Construction Group
Booth 24
Lead by a team of multi-talented experts, and having our own in house joinery business, AVA’s dynamic service offering specialises in commercial fit-outs as well as restaurants and bars, office and communal work spaces. This experience and versatility provides clients with piece of mind and confidence.
Over time, AVA has had the pleasure of working with companies like The Meat & Wine Co, 6 Head, Ribs and Burgers, Slims Quality Burgers, Messina Gelato, San Churro, Belles Chicken, Guzman Y Gomez, TGI Fridays, The Sporting Globe. BCF, RSEA and Super Cheap Auto.
Priding itself on being a reliable and honest company, AVA understands the importance of working closely with clients to ensure that quality, attention to detail and exceptional communication is maintained.
The team at AVA proudly invite you to observe some of our recent work in the hope that it inspires you to ignite exciting new projects with us in the future.