Posted by: Jonathan Bayfield
Retail Research
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After a substantial amount of speculation, supermarket Morrisons will finally have an online grocery retail presence, after launching its new agreement with Ocado this week. The deal has, however, not gone unnoticed by competing supermarket Waitrose, who also have an arrangement with the delivery firm. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Jonathan Bayfield
Retail Research
Jones Lang LaSalle EMEA Research
After a substantial amount of speculation, supermarket Morrisons will finally have an online grocery retail presence, after launching its new agreement with Ocado this week. The deal has, however, not gone unnoticed by competing supermarket Waitrose, who also have an arrangement with the delivery firm. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Jeremy Kelly
Global Research
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What do London and Paris have in common with Cape Town and Johannesburg?
Surely not the weather… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Alexandra Tornow
Industrial Research
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This week, we have released our Q1 results on European logistics and industrial markets.
You can find additional information on our Industrial Interface micro-site. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Jonathan Bayfield
Retail Research
Jones Lang LaSalle EMEA Research
One of the big stories in the UK retail sector this week is that customers at British Land’s shopping centres will be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi later this year. As many of you know, for me, this is really great news!
British Land’s full shopping centre portfolio will benefit from the deal with BT Wi-Fi. Additionally to providing free Wi-Fi to its shopping centre customers, British Land has come to an arrangement to work with BT to try and deliver a strong Wi-Fi offering at a number of its open air shopping parks. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Alexandra Tornow
Industrial Research
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Over the last two weeks my working days have been filled with conversations related to our latest white paper A new logistics real estate landscape – The impact of multi-channel retail on logistics. In particular developers and investors are keen to explore the opportunities – and understand the challenges – that arise with the evolution of e-commerce in the logistics real estate sector. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Jonathan Bayfield
Retail Research
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A number of announcements this week have further illustrated how truly multi-channel the retail sector is becoming. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Jonathan Bayfield
Retail Research
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Some positive news this week, as the UK economy managed to exceed analysts’ expectations and achieve growth of 0.3% in Q1, thus avoiding an unprecedented triple dip recession, and providing a timely boost to sentiment after an uncertain beginning to 2013. Unfortunately, notwithstanding this progression, the UK’s GDP is still 2.6% below its pre-recession peak in the first quarter of 2008. For me those times seem like an eternity away, before I even started in this industry. The service sector was the main basis of growth in the first quarter, growing by 0.6% and contributing almost 0.5 percentage points to GDP. Sales in the retail sector fell in January and March, but a strong February helped it notch up growth of 0.3% overall in the quarter. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Karen Williamson
UK Offices Research
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Unlike the fresh faced Research team at Jones Lang LaSalle, much of the UK’s office stock is old and worn out. As much as 22% of the commercial building stock in the UK dates from before 1960. As highlighted in our latest report From Obsolescence to Resilience , the current rate of building replacement across Europe has been estimated at just 1-2% per year. We would argue this is nowhere near enough to keep obsolescence at bay. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by: Emma Jackson
Corporate Research
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This debate has recently become a hot topic after Yahoo’s chief executive officer (CEO) Marissa Mayer announced a ban of employees working from home.
Since the global downturn began many companies opted to increase the use of flexible or remote working. There were a range of drivers. First, given the inability to offer increases in compensation and benefit, flexible working has been used as an ‘employer of choice’ strategy. Second, it became a means to realise cost savings by lowering the amount of office space occupied. Thirdly, such space reduction has also endorsed corporate social responsibility and environmental credentials. Read the rest of this entry »
