Colin Burnet is a Director in JLL’s European Retail Research & Consulting team. With over 10 years of experience in the European retail market, Colin works with JLL investment and agency teams to advise international investors and occupiers on their retail real estate strategies across the UK and Europe.
Of all the analysis, opinion and comment that has emerged from Tesco’s recent announcement of record breaking £6.4bn losses, one snippet has stuck in my mind. Tesco offers a bewildering array of 28 varieties of tomato ketchup, while in Aldi there is just one choice, in one size. It may be too simplistic to blame all Tesco’s […]
Extract from JLL’s Redefining Retail Places In our blog, ‘Urbanisation: 6.3 billion living in cities by 2050 – implications for Retail’, we discuss the impact of the powerful demographic forces that are at work on a global level, and how urbanisation and population growth are reshaping the Global Retail landscape, and leading to exponential growth […]
The globalised nature of the world in which we live is visible in many aspects of our lives. Take a quick scan on Facebook to see how far and wide your friends are scattered, or alternatively just take a stroll down London’s prime retailing streets, Oxford Street, Regent Street or Bond Street, on a Friday […]
…it’s a shame we had to wait for the England Cricket team’s results to get stronger The strong start to the year we have seen for the European retail real estate investment market has continued into Q2. The same could not be said for the England cricket team when touring India and New Zealand in […]
Wondering where to go on your city break next year? If it’s shopping you’re after, and the buzz and glamour of the big, international brands in particular, then Jones Lang LaSalle’s new report, Destination Europe 2013 is a must read. The report unveils our new cross-border retailer index, which analyses the expansion and presence of […]
We live in a world of economic uncertainty and marketplace volatility. Weakening growth in the developed world, allied with a lack of political leadership is unnerving markets and business leaders alike. As this blog is published, the eurozone crisis rumbles on (or even worsens). Meanwhile, the political stand-off in America is adding to the sense […]
What was the average size of the Welsh backline in the Six Nations? According to various estimates, somewhere between the size of my shed and my house. My initial reaction was that I’m glad my playing days are long gone. But it also seems to be indicative of a wider trend, towards size, power, scale […]
As I struggled with the pram down my local high street at the weekend, at one stage forced into the road, (I’m assuming my wife will not be reading this) I was struck by several things; a slow moving Fiat Punto (don’t worry, the pram took the brunt of the impact) but more importantly, and […]
