Kortrijk, The wind Ring Shopping in the sails. There were 3.5 million visitors in 2018. That is the best figure in years. The owner, property company Wereldhave invests several millions of euros. Are the planning to 2020: higher, interactive, and modern facades, a better-appointed car park, a new playground and additional shops and restaurants.
Ring Shopping got there in 2018 ten commercial: new hotels, restaurants and Ko-No, Guapa, Burger King, and The Idea, fashion boutiques, Maxim’s Fashion, Only and Jack & Jones, optician Eyes+More, household NET and parapharmacies Medi-Market. “There is always people in the mall, even on hot summer days, we are very happy,” says gérante Sandra Herman of Maxim’s Fashion. Panos, Hema & C&A underwent a thorough renovation. The figures speak for themselves, with 3.5 million visitors (compared to 3.3 million visitors in 2017). Also the total turnover is on the rise, with an increase of 4.5 percent in comparison with 2017. The owner, property company Wereldhave, now cross another step. Objective in 2019: 5% more visitors.
Babyverzorgingshoek
How are they going to do? “On one property after everything is nearly 90 commercial matters, with us,” say marketing manager Charlotte Tahon and shoppingmanager Brenda Lombary. “We want a pub. During weekends, all the current pubs are often full. The lunch options may feel free to expand, also for the 500 staff members of the Ring Shopping. There come in march, two new pop-ups in: dameskledijzaak Michèle from Waregem to open our shop next to Bart Smit, while dameskledijzaak Chic By Divino from Nottingham here a store opens opposite Electro Depot. Toys BanBao get a new shop on the upper floor, near Sports Direct. The pop-ups work with quarterly contracts, which we can extend. After a year they decide whether to permanently stay. Also provided in 2019: a babyverzorgingshoek with a place to breastfeed. And fun events such as deugnietdagen for children during the holidays, and a infoweek around gezondheidstrends, at the end of this month. We are working for the Fit’n Fabulous with well known names together: gezondheidsexpert Claudia Van Avermaet (sister of professional cyclist Greg, ed.) and foodblogster Julie Van den Kerchove. They get free information sessions. Later, in 2019, will get the Ring Shopping, an interactive Kids Play Zone, a series of “wayfinding panels” to visitors even better to make a new settlement and a new sanitary block.”
