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Kurt Geiger, the designer footwear label, opened in early December. Set amidst international brands 2018 was a year of flagship launches at The Bullring such as Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein at Estate, with premium fashion brand Arket paving the Bullring, the store is another regional debut. The way with the debut of their flagship boutique features the full range of designer footwear in Bullring’s Rotunda Square last November. A and accessories for women and men, including Kurt Nordic-style café is part of the new store experience, Geiger London, Carvela and KG Kurt Geiger. alongside the latest collections for women, men, children and the home. HUGO, a new concept by HUGO BOSS, opened its doors to the brand’s first store outside London in the same month. Another unique addition was Barbour, with the Laying the brand opening its only standalone store in the region in Grand Central. foundations

US beauty retailer, Morphe Cosmetics, opened its first store outside London, and only its second in the UK, at Bullring; Just in time for Christmas. The store features a backstage ‘Studio Morphe’– a professional space developed for education, entertainment, and content creation. Established in LA in 2008, the US company is recognised by beauty bloggers as the ‘beauty brand created for the creators’ and has amassed 9.6 million followers on Instagram. A34

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A41 What first attracted Barbour service. This provides customers access to launch at Grand Central? to the largest independent Barbour Q&A collection in the country via our website As Barbour’s key UK partner, Outdoor “We are delighted to choose the outdoorandcountry.co.uk. and Country Retail Ltd, we profiled all locations within the UK in terms of our with Jonathan Capener, What are the benefits for Barbour Bullring for our second UK HUGO customer demographic and Birmingham to have a location in Birmingham? founder of Outdoor and Country was in the top 10. It’s a privilege to be store. It’s an exciting time for the able to work together with Barbour to We believe it’s important for our bring the brand to not only the UK’s customers to have access to us via second city, but to one of the most a physical retail store. It allows brand and securing the right stores successful retail destinations customers to come and try the items within Europe. on for themselves and being located in in the right locations has been Birmingham Grand Central means we How has the Birmingham flagship are easily accessible to much of the a crucial part of our strategy.” at Grand Central performed country. We are the go-to destination since opening? for Barbour in the West Midlands. Stephan Born The store has had a great start; it’s Managing Director HUGO BOSS What is in store for Barbour performed in line with expectations Northern Europe, Middle East & India in 2019 at Grand Central? and we had a particularly strong December. The store has received a lot This year sees Barbour celebrate their of positive responses from customers able 125 th anniversary! So expect to see to shop such a large range of Barbour lots of activity around this monumental products in one place and with the birthday with the added benefit of added benefit of our click and collect exclusive limited edition jackets. 04 / REDEFINING

“Birmingham boasts the largest “We house two of our brands THE BULLRING ESTATE population outside of London and with its location right in the (Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein) in Bullring and look at the mall as one heart of the city, The Bullring of our core UK & Ireland destinations. Estate was the clear choice for The growth in footfall and other key our second store in the UK.” RETAILThe Bullring Estate provides something for everyone, with retail metrics has been very positive “With its location right in the heart a customer experience that makes it feel personal, all within Mark Spillman an iconic space that sets the standard across the UK. over the last 5 years and we see these Morphe General Manager EMEA of the city, Bullring was the obvious choice for our new flagship.” locations as part of our future retail portfolio road map.” Ross Warden Retail Director at Kurt Geiger Nick Tite Retail Director, PVH Corp

The number of luxury brands within the Bullring Estate is growing, with Selfridges’ newest boutiques for Gucci and Christian Louboutin joining the famous department store’s refurbished personal shopping experience that opened last summer. NEVER STANDING STILL PURPLE NEW BRAND BULLRING Events TUESDAY SHINES

The Bullring Estate participated in Bullring and Grand Central hosted the awe-inspiring BLACK Purple Tuesday – the UK’s first accessible nocturnal Festival of Light in March. Centred around some shopping day. Freefall Dance Company of planet earth’s most spectacular natural phenomena, MIRROR performed a choreographed ballet piece the event transformed Bullring and Grand Central’s showcasing ten highly gifted dancers with St Martin’s Square and balcony into a dazzling, In January, cult-favourite series severe learning disabilities, and athletes multi-sensory experience with a series of breath-taking Black Mirror, in partnership with Netflix, from the British Wheelchair Basketball interactive themed light installations, designed to surprise recreated the iconic 1980s game store team demonstrated their skills and and delight visitors of all ages... from new drama, Bandersnatch. allowed shoppers to have go, boosting #GlowBrum The Grand Central location was chosen Bandersnatch pop-up support ahead of Birmingham hosting as one of just two pop-ups in the UK. the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

James Charles THE SNOW JAMES HOUSE CHARLES @pizza recently opened it’s “Situated above the busy New Street Bullring welcomed The Snow House Over 8,000 fans flocked to Bullring over the festive period, in a scenic to see US celebrity vlogger, second restaurant in station and amongst several leading setting overlooking St Martin’s Church James Charles, make his UK debut Grand Central, located restaurant operators, this prime and Selfridges. Customers were appearance to officially launch adjacent to Holy Moly unit in the heart of Grand Central invited to get away from the cold the brand-new Morphe store. The Macaroni and Nando’s. The provides the ideal opportunity to and into the Christmas spirit by hiring internet sensation, who has over exclusive igloos and enjoying a range 16.1 million followers on Instagram, brand has experienced great open our next store.” of food and drinks from the festive made Birmingham the centre of success, being voted #1 out chalet bar, including hot toffee apple attention, with fans queuing from 8am of 155 pizza restaurants in Rupert Lyle cider and delicious German sausages. to catch a glimpse of the YouTuber. Edinburgh on TripAdvisor. Founder and CEO of @pizza @morphebrushes @jamescharles 06 /

THE BULLRING ESTATE SOCIALITE IMPACT The Bullring Estate leads the way on social media, with the largest It has the space and vision to nurture brands Twitter following of any retail destination in the UK that continue to surprise and delight shoppers

THE TRUE + “These figures, and the sheer Bullring turns 15 £362m £12m popularity of Bullring, confirm VALUE OF of indirect investment income tax what an important role th RETAIL attracted to the area payments Last year, Bullring celebrated its 15 birthday and is one per annum per annum The Bullring Estate plays, not of Europe’s most successful shopping and dining Coinciding with Bullring’s 15th birthday, just in Birmingham but in the destinations with a footfall of over 39 million a year. Hammerson released research findings highlighting the significant positive impact region as a whole. In the 15 The Bullring Estate has on the city of 85% 50% Birmingham, including attracting more years since Bullring opened its On opening, Bullring brought 53 new brands to the city, than £362m of indirect investment to the of jobs accounted of all jobs go with more than 50 of the original brands continuing to local economy every year. by local people to under 25s doors, Birmingham has been trade there, including Selfridges, Zara and Reiss. Over The research enables Hammerson to transformed into one of the understand and measure the actual the last 15 years, the numbers of restaurants, aspirational socio-economic contribution of its assets UK’s foremost retail centres. brands and consumer brands at the centre have doubled. and developments both now and over And that’s not just good news their lifetime, as well as setting a baseline £88m 4,322 to measure future progress. The findings for dedicated shoppers – it’s are used to shape asset plans to ensure wage payments full-time jobs Hammerson optimises the positive impacts per annum absolutely vital to the growing generated from its portfolio and creates best-in-class retail destinations. city economy, playing a huge + + role in the economic wellbeing £22m £4m of our citizens.” generated in value of training business rates delivered 149k 225k 102k Ian Ward Instagram tags Facebook fans Twitter followers per annum per annum Leader Retail Restaurants & Leisure

Sarah Mander Jan Verwijs T: +44 (0)20 7887 1139 T: +44 (0)20 7887 1105 million footfall E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Becky Thorne Millie Wilson T: +44 (0)20 7887 1136 T: +44 (0) 7799 882 850 Bullring E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Toby Sykes T: +44 (0)20 7152 5240 39 E: [email protected]

Emma Williams T: +44 (0)20 7152 5187 E: [email protected]

Guy Webber T: +44 (0)121 262 6543 million footfall E: [email protected] Nick De-Pons Grand Central T: +44 (0)121 262 6542 E: [email protected]

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