Friday 17 August 2012

RLI Announces Global Deal--Making Event



The World’s First Global Retail & Leisure Property Deal-Making Forum brought to you by RLI Connect…Face-time with key global retail & leisure decision makers.

Shop till you drop for those all-important deals

RLI Connect brings for the first time a sustained platform for doing business and building value through strategic partnerships on a global scale.

Jayne Rafter, Publisher of RLI Magazine and Founder of RLI Connect, says “Based on several recent conversations with Developers, finding the right mix of retailers & leisure operators to fill their new and existing shopping malls is becoming one of the biggest challenges they face. They are looking for new and innovative concepts to enhance the shopping experience, throughout my whole career I have always put a strong emphasis on interacting with each other face-to-face to forge stronger synergistic relationships…and this is what RLI Connect will do.”

In these critical times for the retail & leisure real estate industry, achieving effective results demands a paradigm shift that can only be realized with exposure to new thoughts and ideas. RLI Connect will be a networking and deal-making forum, comprising of retailers, leisure operators, franchise partners, developers, shopping centre owners, investors, brokers, attorneys, leasing executives, property managers, architects and other affiliated companies associated within the industry. We aim to attract the largest number of actively growing retail and leisure concepts internationally, as well as the hottest up-and-coming concepts! Just think…weeks of impersonal emails and phone calls can instead be accomplished in ONE DAY, resulting in long-lasting, profitable relationships and that all-important deal!

“A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.”
John D. Rockefeller

AND THE DEALS GET DONE!

No Conference or panel sessions just a high energy forum providing a more focused venue for networking and deal-making with the combination of moving existing deals along and being introduced to new deals. This is your chance to collaborate and share knowledge with top performers in the retail real estate industry.

In the fast paced retail & leisure market, key players have an entrepreneurial opportunity to search for a best fit match for their project, if you are ready, willing and able to do deals, then this is the event for you.

Your next great deal is waiting at the RLI Connect Deal-Making Forum, if you want to know who’s doing what - building new projects, renovating existing ones, seeking space to lease - all in the confines of a total business environment…then get in touch!

For more information email jayne.rafter@rli.uk.com
or visit the new website here www.rliconnect.com

Its been a while...


Its been a hectic few months hence the distinct lack of posts...over the next few days I will be updating my blog with the latest developments in my hectic schedule. I am currently bracing myself myself for the challenges of intense travelling and conferences that the next 3 months will bring.

The RLI team will be at this year’s BCSC Expo in Liverpool 10-12 September stand no H32, dont forget to visit us, whilst I jet off to Shanghai for the ICSC World Summit 12-14 September. Then it’s off to the World Retail Congress, London 19-21 September, before heading off to Zagreb for the inaugural SEE Retail Matchmaking Event 27-28 September, where RLI is working with Real Estate Databank to bring together Retailers and Developers to sign those all-important deals…If you are a retailer looking to open stores or a developer looking to lease space in Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey, this would be a perfect opportunity for you...so get in touch!

Watch out for my next blog as RLI has an important announcement to make...