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Old Billingsgate Market
1 Old Billingsgate Walk, 16 Lower Thames St, London, EC3R 6DX
The home of the flagship Completely Retail Marketplace UK is this historic venue in the heart of the City of London. A Grade II Victorian building that was originally the Billingsgate fish market, the venue provides a flexible space in a convenient retail location close to a range of London Tube Stations.
The show’s much-anticipated drinks reception (from 4.00pm) is held on the venue’s terrace if weather permits, offering fantastic views across the Thames and iconic London landmarks Tower Bridge and The Shard.
Get your business involved
Marketplace Agenda
8.00am
Venue open to exhibitors
9.00am
Show open to all delegates
11.00am
Soapbox sessions
12.00pm
Lunch
2.30pm
Soapbox sessions
4.00pm
Bar opens
7.30pm
Show closes
Always a highlight of the Marketplace shows, Soapbox is where speakers from retail and leisure brands take to the stage to pitch their growth and development plans to the show’s delegation of agents, landlords, shopping destinations and franchise operators.
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Old Billingsgate Market is easily accessible from a number of Central London mainline, London Underground and Docklands Light Railway stations. The nearest mainline station is Fenchurch Street. The nearest tube stations are Monument and Bank station, both just 5 minutes away.
Where to stay
There are a number of hotels nearby:
(0.3miles) Double Tree Hilton Tower of London — Rooms start from £239.00
(0.3miles) Hotel Novotel London Tower Bridge — Rooms start from £215.00
(0.6miles) Premier Inn London Bank (Tower) Hotel — Rooms start from £162.00
(0.6miles) Travelodge Tower Bridge Hotel — Rooms start from £105.00
(0.6 miles) Apex City of London Hotel — Rooms start from £207.20
Sponsors & Media Partners
Co-op
The Co-op offers people award-winning food near to where they live and work, in handy-sized shops, open at convenient times.
We’re growing fast. We’ve opened around 500 new stores in the last five years, our like-for-like sales continue to increase and we’re still acquiring.
We’re looking for leasehold sites, of up to 5,000 sq ft gross, in locations highly visible from the road, close to transport hubs, new housing developments or district centres. We’re also interested in existing businesses with a net sales area of over 1,500 sq ft.
We’re competitive, quick to respond and happy to retain introducing agents.
BRC
The British Retail Consortium (BRC)’s goal is to make a positive difference to the retail industry and the customers it serves, committed to ensuring the industry thrives throughout an ongoing period of change.
They tell the story of retail and work with their members to drive positive change, using their expertise and influence to create an economic and policy environment that enables retail businesses to thrive and consumers to benefit.
The BRC membership comprises over 5,000 businesses delivering £180bn of retail sales and employing over one and half million employees.
We Are Pop Up
We Are Pop Up is the world’s largest creative retail network and trusted pop-up shop marketplace.
They are the only community orientated and fully automated way to rent commercial space in the UK & Europe . The simplest way to book unique pop-up spaces and ShopShares, We Are Pop Up is the destination to meet innovative brands and collaborate on creative retail.
With over 30,000 brands listed on the platform, providing unique commercial opportunities for brands and real estate owners.
REP Europe
Real Estate Partners (REP), is an early-stage investment vehicle with a focus on innovative retail and technology businesses within real estate. Under its wing are:
- We Are Pop Up, of the world’s first marketplace and booking platform for temporary space, including Shop Share;
- BrandSpots, a full-service pop-up shop provider and innovative outdoor media agency;
- ICYMEDIA, Europe’s alpine media specialist;
- Europe Real Estate, a European real estate media publishing and marketing company.
EG
EG is the trusted source of real estate intelligence and long-term strategic partner of the property industry.
They provide their customers with trusted data & analysis, market connections and decision support through high quality and innovative media, events and business solutions.
EG are a proud member of the RELX group, a FTSE 50 company and world leader in global business intelligence.
Retail Watch
PropertyEU was founded in 2006 and has since become the leading platform for professionals in commercial real estate investment, finance and development in Europe. Their mission is to help foster transparency in the European real estate market and to enhance cross-border development, financing and investment through research and analysis of the latest trends.
To that end, PropertyEU continues to monitor the market, filter the key events and track real estate transactions to keep you up-to-date with unique content, data and insights and help you make well-informed investment decisions.
Retail Focus
Retail Focus is an international industry-leading design publication, website, social and events company. Serving the retail design industry, Retail Focus is driven by design and innovation and offers inspiration for every professional, on all projects and throughout the design process.
Offering events that connect the industry by promoting creative leadership, innovation and collaboration across a wide range of practice areas and platforms, the Retail Focus website, retail-focus.co.uk, is the go-to site for relevant and real-time content for the industry’s largest and most engaged design audience.
The Gym
The Gym Group PLC, a leading, national, award winning low cost gym operator offering affordable, flexible 24h gym membership. The Gym Group offers Landlords a stable, secure and long-term investment, with a 5A1 D&B rating and a speedy and professional approval and acquisition process. Fees paid for successful introductions.
Infabode
Infabode works with a network of content partners to provide a one-stop shop for real estate industry research and insights.
Providing a platform that enables our users to analyse global industry sectors, while also increasing the reach of our content providers information to a highly targeted audience. Aiming to save you time, increase knowledge and better serve your clients.
The platform is completely free to join and our content partners also receive free analytics on the reach of their content.
Morrisons
Headquartered in Bradford since 1899, Morrisons is a British food retailer with circa 500 stores serving over 11 million customers every week. We offer popular services including cafés, pharmacies, dry cleaners and over 300 petrol stations with further services being added all the time.
Over the last two years we have opened seven new stores, with five planned to open in 2020.
We now have ambitions plans to open more new stores over the next five years.
We require;
-Sites with main road frontage in close proximity to residential areas.
-Good catchments with limited or compromised competition.
-Opportunities to be the best store in the area.
-Development sites of 2 to 5 acres or existing buildings suitable for conversion.
-Central, neighborhood and out of town locations considered.
-Freehold (preferred), or leasehold opportunities.
Engenie
Engenie is one of the UK’s fastest growing EV charge-point networks, offering fully funded and fully managed charging solutions for commercial landlords and property developers.
With a customer-first approach, Engenie’s mission is to deliver a national network of over 2000 tap-and-go, reliable chargers at convenient and safe locations, simultaneously driving loyal footfall and long-term site value for our landlord partners. Every charge-point is powered by 100% renewable electricity, forming a major part of Engenie’s commitment to enable a low-carbon transport system and pollutant-free air.
Engenie has institutional financial backing, with significant investment from Investec and Cube Infrastructure Fund.
Real Asset Media
REAL ASSET MEDIA is based on two pillars:
1) Running more than 60 events across Europe each year, with our events division REAL ASSET INVESTMENT BRIEFINGS we create forums in the major European centres to link local market investment expertise with pools of capital in the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia and beyond – into the US, Canada, Middle East and Asia.
2) REAL ASSET MEDIA publishes a series of publications designed to meet the needs of the current market. With a focus on sharing thought leadership, and creating personalized news and data resources, REAL ASSET MEDIA publishes a daily newsletter, THE REAL ASSET DAY, a special focus quarterly publication, REAL ASSET INSIGHT, distributed at the major events including MIPIM and EXPO Real, as well as LIVING RETAIL focused on the retail, F&B and leisure industry.
• With 16,000 registered readers, listeners & viewers, and attendees, REAL ASSET MEDIA is the chosen resource for leading cross-border decision-makers.
• We also run a series of events at the main exhibitions and trade fairs including MIPIM, MAPIC, Transport Logistics and Business Arena, as well as a dedicated stand, the International Investors Lounge, at EXPO REAL.
• Among our partners are EPRA, RICS. ULI, and other associations as well as other media.
Living Retail
REAL ASSET MEDIA is based on two pillars:
1) Running more than 60 events across Europe each year, with our events division REAL ASSET INVESTMENT BRIEFINGS we create forums in the major European centres to link local market investment expertise with pools of capital in the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia and beyond – into the US, Canada, Middle East and Asia.
2) REAL ASSET MEDIA publishes a series of publications designed to meet the needs of the current market. With a focus on sharing thought leadership, and creating personalized news and data resources, REAL ASSET MEDIA publishes a daily newsletter, THE REAL ASSET DAY, a special focus quarterly publication, REAL ASSET INSIGHT, distributed at the major events including MIPIM and EXPO Real, as well as LIVING RETAIL focused on the retail, F&B and leisure industry.
• With 16,000 registered readers, listeners & viewers, and attendees, REAL ASSET MEDIA is the chosen resource for leading cross-border decision-makers.
• We also run a series of events at the main exhibitions and trade fairs including MIPIM, MAPIC, Transport Logistics and Business Arena, as well as a dedicated stand, the International Investors Lounge, at EXPO REAL.
• Among our partners are EPRA, RICS. ULI, and other associations as well as other media.
Go-PopUp
Go—PopUp is a leading marketplace to connect landlords and tenants of commercial spaces, to help them to run pop-up retail actions and corporate events everywhere in the world. Go-PopUp empowers brands to find perfectly matching spaces and launch pop-up projects and stores
Go—Logic SaaS is a personalized version of the Go—PopUp platform tailored to landlord’s needs. With Go Logic SaaS and Services landlords can manage and commercialize their spaces more securely and efficiently: faster, cheaper and all-under-control. They get their own leads, commission free.
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