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Retail News Flash vom 15.11.2025
Bi-weekly Podcast mit News aus dem Handel
English version:
Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots
Slovenian retailer Mass and financial investor Advance Capital Partners are acquiring Humanic's parent company
Leder & Schuh, based in Graz.
Closed opens again
Lidl - 300 new Shops
The US coffeehouse chain Starbucks has closed several locations in Austria. Stores in Salzburg, Linz, and Innsbruck have been permanently shut down.
Quester is insolvent
Unibail-Rodamco-Wesfield (URW) has acquired a 25% stake in St James Quarter in Edinburgh from Nuveen.
"The winners of the Mapic Awards 2025:
In addition to long-standing honors, the jury recognized the best projects and brands of the past year in ten categories.
Best New Store Concept: MINISO LAND, Shanghai, China
MINISO LAND, the brand's first scenario-based flagship store, combines retail and play on 1,637 m².
Best Renovation Project: El Boulevard, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Best New Development Project: Livat Shanghai, Ingka Centres, China
Best Urban Renewal Project: Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier, Germany
The Brand and Project of the Last 30 Years
Two additional special prizes went to Zara and the Westfield London shopping center.
Most Wanted Retail Brand: Zara
Most Wanted Food & Beverage: McDonald’s
Most Wanted Leisure & Entertainment: Legoland
Most Exciting Retail Brand: On "
Balls & Clubs is bringing its innovative indoor mini golf concept from Munich to Austria for the first time!
The Shopping Süd retail park is being built right next to the Seiersberg shopping center.
"CC Real is opening Austria's largest indoor fun and leisure park in the Center West shopping center in Graz: the WOOP! Funpark, covering an area of 5,800 m² and representing an investment of over €5 million.
Shein opens store in Paris
Inditex has opened its new Zara flagship store in Las Vegas—in the shopping center “The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.”
The AI-cook
The second collection from the adidas Pet Collection features a mix of zip-up training jackets and down vests designed specifically for dogs and cats.
Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3327489/?xing_share=news
https://www.textilzeitung.at/business/news/neues-kapitel-closed-startet-mit-neuen-eigentuemern-in-die-zukunft-17290?utmsource=%2Fmeta%2Fnewsletter%2Foetz&utmmedium=newsletter&utmcampaign=nl1003&utmterm=67923553e45a7a4c68c10e57027cae32
https://medianet.at/news/retail/lidl-schweiz-plant-ueber-100-neue-filialen-71308.html
https://www.kosmo.at/starbucks-schliesst-filialen-in-oesterreich/
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3328399/
https://news.completelyretail.co.uk/unibail-rodamco-westfield-buys-25-stake-in-edinburghs-st-james-quarter/
https://www.across-magazine.com/mapic-awards-2025/
https://www.textilzeitung.at/business/news/oetz-interview-direkt-neben-der-shoppingcity-shopping-sued-startet-2026-17242
https://www.across-magazine.com/cc-real-opens-austrias-largest-indoor-fun-and-leisure-park-woop-at-center-west-graz/
https://orf.at/stories/3410393/
https://fashionunited.ch/nachrichten/einzelhandel/einblicke-in-zaras-neuen-store-im-caesars-palace-in-las-vegas/2025101446761
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQFes-GjLwk/?igsh=NHNscG1md2l3dmxi
HI-Newsletter, 30.10.25
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By Anna Hegenbart, Heidemarie KrizBi-weekly Podcast mit News aus dem Handel
English version:
Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots
Slovenian retailer Mass and financial investor Advance Capital Partners are acquiring Humanic's parent company
Leder & Schuh, based in Graz.
Closed opens again
Lidl - 300 new Shops
The US coffeehouse chain Starbucks has closed several locations in Austria. Stores in Salzburg, Linz, and Innsbruck have been permanently shut down.
Quester is insolvent
Unibail-Rodamco-Wesfield (URW) has acquired a 25% stake in St James Quarter in Edinburgh from Nuveen.
"The winners of the Mapic Awards 2025:
In addition to long-standing honors, the jury recognized the best projects and brands of the past year in ten categories.
Best New Store Concept: MINISO LAND, Shanghai, China
MINISO LAND, the brand's first scenario-based flagship store, combines retail and play on 1,637 m².
Best Renovation Project: El Boulevard, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Best New Development Project: Livat Shanghai, Ingka Centres, China
Best Urban Renewal Project: Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier, Germany
The Brand and Project of the Last 30 Years
Two additional special prizes went to Zara and the Westfield London shopping center.
Most Wanted Retail Brand: Zara
Most Wanted Food & Beverage: McDonald’s
Most Wanted Leisure & Entertainment: Legoland
Most Exciting Retail Brand: On "
Balls & Clubs is bringing its innovative indoor mini golf concept from Munich to Austria for the first time!
The Shopping Süd retail park is being built right next to the Seiersberg shopping center.
"CC Real is opening Austria's largest indoor fun and leisure park in the Center West shopping center in Graz: the WOOP! Funpark, covering an area of 5,800 m² and representing an investment of over €5 million.
Shein opens store in Paris
Inditex has opened its new Zara flagship store in Las Vegas—in the shopping center “The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.”
The AI-cook
The second collection from the adidas Pet Collection features a mix of zip-up training jackets and down vests designed specifically for dogs and cats.
Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3327489/?xing_share=news
https://www.textilzeitung.at/business/news/neues-kapitel-closed-startet-mit-neuen-eigentuemern-in-die-zukunft-17290?utmsource=%2Fmeta%2Fnewsletter%2Foetz&utmmedium=newsletter&utmcampaign=nl1003&utmterm=67923553e45a7a4c68c10e57027cae32
https://medianet.at/news/retail/lidl-schweiz-plant-ueber-100-neue-filialen-71308.html
https://www.kosmo.at/starbucks-schliesst-filialen-in-oesterreich/
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3328399/
https://news.completelyretail.co.uk/unibail-rodamco-westfield-buys-25-stake-in-edinburghs-st-james-quarter/
https://www.across-magazine.com/mapic-awards-2025/
https://www.textilzeitung.at/business/news/oetz-interview-direkt-neben-der-shoppingcity-shopping-sued-startet-2026-17242
https://www.across-magazine.com/cc-real-opens-austrias-largest-indoor-fun-and-leisure-park-woop-at-center-west-graz/
https://orf.at/stories/3410393/
https://fashionunited.ch/nachrichten/einzelhandel/einblicke-in-zaras-neuen-store-im-caesars-palace-in-las-vegas/2025101446761
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQFes-GjLwk/?igsh=NHNscG1md2l3dmxi
HI-Newsletter, 30.10.25