GlOBal PEOPlE Former halogen Exec forms new P.R. agency Dan innes, co-founder and former board director at public relations firm Halogen, has launched Innesco, a property PR and marketing business. London-based Innesco continues to work with Henderson Global Investors’ European <strong>Outlet</strong> Mall Fund, liaising closely with the McArthurGlen team across the nineoutlet portfolio. Other property clients include Ivanhoe Cambridge, Paul Whight’s Cadena, The Wellcome Trust, Insite Asset Management and MGPA. With more than 15-years experience, Innes has acted for numerous property clients including ING Real Estate, Land Securities, Stanhope and British Land. He is chairman of the British Council of <strong>Shopping</strong> Centres’ New Generation Committee and an active member of the ICSC. Joining Innes in the new company are Christina Sandkühler as senior account manager and Ben Cooper as account manager. Sandkühler has six years marketing and PR experience and will work on accounts including Henderson, Ivanhoe Cambridge’s St. Enoch shopping center in Glasgow, and Cadena’s new <strong>Retail</strong> Estate Fund. Cooper is a former <strong>Retail</strong> Week journalist who will handle retail-sector accounts. McArthurGlen makes two key appointments McArthurGlen Europe has appointed Eric Decouvelaere as managing director, Southern Europe, and Geoff Nidd as country manager in France and Belgium. Decouvelaere was previously regional director of Northern Europe for McArthurGlen. In his new position, he oversees the company’s four designer outlet villages in Italy, including Serravalle Designer <strong>Outlet</strong>, as well as two outlet villages in France (Troyes Designer <strong>Outlet</strong> and Roubaix Designer <strong>Outlet</strong>) and one in Belgium, 10 InternatIOnal <strong>Outlet</strong> JOurnal Fall 2009 UK outlet veteran john drummond dies By LiNDA hUMPhERS Editor in Chief The British outlet industry lost one of its pioneers and true characters in July. As director of the Guinea Group, John Drummond was an unflagging supporter of factory outlet retailing and the driving force behind Junction One, the 200,000-sf outlet center he opened in 2004 in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Mr. Drummond founded The Guinea Group in 1983 with his friend and business partner John Jones, who became the firm’s financial director. The company specialized in retail development throughout the UK, initially concentrating on prime highstreet locations in small towns such as Inverness, Dumfries, Penzance and High Wycombe, becoming especially fond of listed buildings. <strong>Shopping</strong> centers in medium-sized towns followed, and by 1993 the Group had focused on factory outlet and offprice formats, both in new build and redevelopments. The group became asset managers and joint owners of Clacton Factory <strong>Shopping</strong> Village in Clacton-on- Sea, The Galleries in Aldershot, Callendar Square in Falkirk, and Junction One. Mr. Drummond was in the middle of redeveloping the former K Village in Cumbria, England, when he died July 13. Through his vision, the 24,000-sf outlet center that opened in 1995 was being transformed into the €113 million Riverside Place, a mixed-use development set to open in October 2010. That project, which friends say was Mr. Drummond’s baby, has been absorbed by CUSP, which was Guinea Group’s financial partner on Factory <strong>Shopping</strong> Messancy. Decouvelaere will also oversee the leasing and management of two new designer outlet schemes: the 20,000m 2 first phase in Naples and the 21,000-m 2 phase one in Athens. Both projects are set to open in 2010. Decouvelaere joined McArthurGlen John Drummond Junction One and Riverside. Mr. Drummond was one of life’s characters, a dynamo, an entrepreneur, a deal maker who once lived in Hong Kong. According to friends, he had suffered from heart trouble for many years, but typically, he held a leasing meeting for Riverside Place during his last stay in the hospital. At his funeral in Edinburgh, Mr. Drummond was remembered by John Jones for borrowing his new car one afternoon and returning a few hours later, “bounding into my office with a big grin and that hearty laugh and pronouncing, ‘the good news is I’m OK.’” Not surprisingly, the Guinea name derived from a West End bar & grill that became a second office on many evenings. Mr. Drummond’s passions were retail, property, cars, Harley-Davidsons and shooting. Mr. Jones said he gradually noticed a pattern to the Scottish locations the company was developing – Dumfries, Stranraer, Kirkcaldy and Falkirk – all well-known for their plentiful supply of wild fowl and pheasants. “John loved shopping center developments and he always believed the Americans were the leaders,” Mr. Jones said. “So he got as many of the team as possible over to the States for study tours so we could all learn together. He always had a great team ethic and that is still in existence today. He truly believed quality would see the test of time and his attention to detail was second to none.” In choosing music to play while the mourners left the funeral, Mr. Jones said he and Mr. Drummond’s companion Marion selected “the one that John would have wanted and summed him up perfectly.” The song was “Bat Out of Hell,” sung by Meat Loaf. c in August 2005 as retail director, overseeing the company’s retail strategy and retail operations. Prior to joining McArthurGlen, Decouvelaere had positions with Harrods and Printemps. Nidd retains his current role as General Manager for Troyes Designer <strong>Outlet</strong> and Roubaix Designer <strong>Outlet</strong>. c
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