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Intu appoints chief restructuring officer as Covid-19 crisis grows

Shopping centre owner Intu has appointed David Hargrave as chief restructuring officer to help the company through the Covid-19 pandemic. Hargrave has 20 years of experience as a partner in the restructuring practices of both PwC and EY, specialising in business turnarounds across many sectors, and his role as chief restructuring officer at Intu...

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Retailers ‘go purple’ in support of disabled customers

Retailers and shopping destinations including Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s and centres owned and managed by Intu and The Crown Estate are looking to improve the customer experience for disabled people by supporting Purple Tuesday, taking place today, November 12. The accessible shopping day is encouraging businesses to improve customer...

Intu rebrands Spanish shopping resort

Intu, owner of many of the largest retail and leisure destinations in the UK and Spain, has rebranded one of its largest shopping resorts, Puerto Venecia in Zaragoza, northern Spain, which it acquired in 2014. Occupying over 206,000 square metres, the shopping resort which combines retail with leisure activities, centred around a lakeside...

River Island and Zara to expand in Intu Lakeside

High street fashion chains River Island and Zara have both confirmed that they will be expanding their Intu Lakeside flagships this year, as part of the Essex shopping centre’s extensive refurbishment. River Island will be doubling its current footprint to 21,000 square foot, while Zara is taking three times more space to create two new flagship...

Hammerson to acquire Intu in 3.4 billion pound deal

British shopping centre owner Hammerson has made a recommended 3.4 billion pound offer for smaller rival Intu Group, which would see London’s Brent Cross, Birmingham’s Bullring and Manchester’s Trafford Centre combined into one group. Hammerson, which owns the Bullring along with shopping centres including Brent Cross in London, Cabot Circus in...

Intu introduces robot retail assistants

Shopping centre group Intu has introduced Bo, Europe’s first ever ‘shop-bot’ robot that will interact with shoppers at Intu Milton Keynes. The robotic retail assistant will direct shoppers to different parts of the centre, ask them about their shopping experience, as well as tell them about special offers they can take up at different shops in...

intu Accelerate to introduce seven transformative retail start-ups

intu Accelerate, part of intu Group, one of the UK's leading shopping centre owners, has launched a start-up incubation programme to help transform UK retail. Seven new businesses with innovative ideas for British retail have joined intu Accelerate, run together with innovation specialists L Marks, to develop new technologies and services for...

Intu pilots virtual reality in its shopping centres

Shopping centre owner Intu is piloting paid-for virtual reality experiences at three of its most popular retail and leisure destinations over August, where customers can interact with characters from The Emoji Movie. The pilot will take place in Merry Hill, Lakeside and Braehead, before Intu makes the decision on whether to roll out more virtual...

Intu to create Autism hour

Intu shopping centres is launching a week-long event in partnership with The National Autistic Society, which will see retailers in its 14 centres nationwide participating in the UK’s first ‘Autism Hour’ in October. The Autism hour will see retailers and the shopping centre reducing their lights, music and other background noise for an hour at...

Intu plans to increase dwell time with digital screens

Shopping centre group Intu is installing innovative Epoch screens, which revolved between portrait and landscape to keep shopping centre customers entertained, in a number of its locations in a bid to drive footfall and dwell time. The screens, which have never been used within the retail market before, will be installed at Intu Lakeside, Intu...