Vindico Retail highlights retailmomentum in RLI Magazine

The November issue of RLI magazine carries Vindico Retail's account of how retail momentum gets new shops open on time in development projects, and open in less time across portfolios of trading assets.

Founding Directors Marc McQuain and Peter Row set out the model of integrated retail delivery strategy, design and management.

Our clients understood the important role that retail delivery plays and the need to create 'retailmomentum' in any new asset by maximising the number of trading shops and restaurants. Whereas other firms may bolt retail delivery onto their construction or design offers, our clients see value in hiring specialists. Retail delivery is our core business, it's all we do.
Marc McQuain, Founding Director, Vindico

Since expanding from the UK and the United States in 2002 to Dubai in 2007, the Middle East has become Vindico's strongest market, with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha and a permanent team of over sixty. The firm has over 4,500 shops and restaurants and 25 grand openings across 65 shopping centres and airports behind it, and has invested in sister companies Volstrukt, whose lightweight steel framing is used to manufacture modular and relocatable retail systems, and Pop Modular Retail, which creates right-sized retail spaces and offers.

Peter Row says that while the pedigree has been built on development projects, and the firm will continue to seek roles supporting large numbers of shops opening on a single day, the future roster will hold a growing number of trading centres.

That push into trading assets has been supported by investment in systems and an in-house design, architectural and engineering team. It has produced two appointments of strategic importance: an extension of the Aldar relationship into its community retail portfolio, and work with Hammerson supporting a strategic review of retail delivery across its UK shopping centre assets.