CBRE Investment Management has announced Angel Central, its retail and leisure destination in Islington, has experienced a strong Q1, with sales exceeding last year alongside record-breaking footfall.  The out-performance coincides with the news Therapié Clinic is opening its first location in Islington at the destination.

centre:mk, one of the top 10 prime retail destinations in the UK, has reported a strong start to 2025, following a successful 2024, exceeding footfall benchmarks across the UK since 2014

Printworks has unveiled record-breaking footfall numbers following its spectacular Christmas lights switch-on, held last weekend.

Liverpool ONE is set to have its busiest Christmas in five years, with record numbers of visitors predicted during the festive period.  Europe’s leading retail and entertainment destination is expecting over four million visitors in the run up to Christmas, with the boost in visitors anticipated to top records since before the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Peel Retail & Leisure has announced a successful Summer Food Festival at top 10 UK outlet, Gloucester Quays, spotlighting over 150 stalls from local operators and uplifting footfall at the destination by 37% week-on-week. 

The O2 is celebrating a successful first half of 2024, posting a strong set of sales results and significant levels of leasing activity, as the recently reported concept of ‘social spending’ gathers momentum.

CACI, the experts in consumers and location planning, have analysed the changing relationship between people and place, highlighting how and why a national footfall reduction at retail environments is happening, but still leading to rising spend.

Peel Retail & Leisure has announced another record period of sales and footfall performance at Gloucester Quays, up +11% and +7% respectively. The top 10 UK outlet is also celebrating its 15th Anniversary, going from an exciting new destination in the South West when it launched in 2009, to establishing itself as one of the best performing in the country, and the dominant retail and leisure hub in the historic City of Gloucester.

Grosvenor has announced Liverpool ONE will be the home of the official Eurovision Song Contest pop-up store, the only one of its kind, from May 1 to May 14, as the city hosts the international competition, on behalf of last year’s winners, Ukraine.

In a move that will help retail and hospitality businesses better understand customer behaviour, CACI, the consumer and location intelligence specialist, and O2 Motion – which provides rich insights on aggregated and anonymised population movement – have joined forces to create a truly comprehensive and accurate location intelligence service.

Shaftesbury, the Real Estate Investment Trust which invests exclusively in the liveliest parts of London's West End, has seen footfall return to 86% of the peak in December in 2020, just before London was placed into the third lockdown.

Liverpool ONE continues its post-lockdown momentum across retail, leisure and dining, bucking both regional and national trends. Latest performance figures shows footfall at 86% of the volumes experienced this time last year, and sales at 88%, with both figures exceeding UK averages by 7% and 10% respectively.

Liverpool ONE is celebrating the close of a successful festive period, with figures showing a 5% increase in sales during the period compared to 2018, defying widespread industry declines.

ICON Outlet at The O2, the 210,000 sq ft premium urban outlet developed by AEG and Crosstree Real Estate Partners, has reported bumper Christmas trading with like-for-like sales growing by 39% during the holiday period from 23 December – 5 January, benefiting from a 34% increase in destination footfall to The O2 (excluding customers to The O2 arena).

centre:mk, one of the top 10 shopping centres in the UK, is bucking the nationwide trend of declining footfall, and has reported that the centre’s footfall is up +2.5% YOY.