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LULULEMON ANNOUNCES OPENING OF ITS FIRST STORES IN GREECE

THROUGH ITS FRANCHISE PARTNERSHIP WITH ARION RETAIL GROUP

The first store opened on Saturday 23 May at
Akadimias 17 & Voukourestiou in Kolonaki, cen-
tral Athens. A second store location is set to open
on Friday 12 June at the Golden Hall shopping mall.
The opening of these stores represents an impor-
tant step in lululemon’s continued expansion across
Europe, introducing the brand’s innovative athletic
and lifestyle products, alongside community-led
experiences rooted in movement and wellbeing, to
new guests in Greece.
Located in the heart of Athens, the lululemon
Kolonaki store will showcase products designed to
support a wide range of activities including yoga,
pilates, running, training, golf, tennis and everyday
movement. Guests will discover the brand’s prod-
ucts across almost 180sq m of modern retail space.

Gran Hotel Taoro, the historic landmark hotel in
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
northern Tenerife, has completed the final phase
of its three-year renovation with the opening of
Sandára Wellness Centre, offering guests an addi -
tional space dedicated to relaxation, restoration
and holistic wellbeing, with exclusive treatments
by Anne Semonin.
Designed to be a calm, sensory retreat, Sandára
Wellness Centre’s relaxation area includes a sauna,
steam room and experience showers, which over-
look the hotel’s gardens and natural landscape
beyond. The centre also features three individual
treatment rooms and two spacious double rooms,
allowing for personalised wellness and beauty rit -
uals, either individually or as shared experiences.
The treatment menu includes specialised facials
focused on hydration and rejuvenation.

SCF EXPANDS POLISH RETAIL NEW BALANCE ENTERS

PORTFOLIO WITH PURCHASE BRISBANE WITH STORE LAUNCH

The Czech investment group SCF has completed the acquisition The company has expanded its Australian retail presence with
of Janki Retail Park of Warsaw, located next to the shopping the opening of its first physical store in Brisbane, located at West
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centre of the same name that SCF has owned for two years. The field Chermside.
seller was LCP Poland, part of M Core. The retail park houses The 300sq m retail space on level two of the shopping centre
Media Markt and TK Maxx stores spanning over 7,000sq m. marks the brand’s tenth Australian store. The store layout is
”We have long considered Poland to be one of the most attrac- designed to carry the company’s full range of performance and
tive retail real estate markets in Central Europe. That is why we lifestyle apparel and footwear, targeting both athletes and life-
have our own office here, staffed by a team of local experts and we style consumers.
are actively expanding our portfolio of investment properties in Tim Page, New Balance’s Asia Pacific Head of Retail, said
the country,” says Josef Malíř, CEO and Owner of SCF. the Chermside location is a key part of the company’s ongoing
SCF entered the Polish retail market two years ago by acquir- nationwide retail footprint expansion, aimed at establishing
ing six shopping centres from Cromwell Property Group for direct consumer touchpoints in major regional markets.
almost €300M. To mark the New Balance Brisbane store’s opening, the brand
This year, the group expanded with the acquisition of Jantar scheduled an in-store promotional activation on 30 May and 31
shopping centre in Słupsk, with a leasable area of 44,000sq m. May, in collaboration with skincare label Laneige and the local
Aareal Bank provided financing for the transaction, with JLL, business The Flower Bar, to offer a custom flower-bouquet assem-
Gleeds and Dentons providing advisory services. bly station.

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