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Dear Members,
PPKM started the year with a visit to East Malaysia and was
greeted by a robust and bustling shopping mall scene in Kuching and
Kota Kinabalu. Kuching, the state capital of Sarawak is currently
experiencing a boom of new property development for residential and
commercial including the emergence of a few new malls soon. This
augurs well for the industry as opportunities are created for new
retailers to be in the Kuching market, as well as offering wider
and better merchandise selections for shoppers. Similarly, Kota
Kinabalu city centre also saw the recent opening of new malls which
will add to the city's appeal as one of the bigger retail
destinations in East Malaysia.
In an on-going effort to develop human capital, we have
also recently completed the first part of our Certification Courses
for the year. Response has been tremendous, especially the module
on Marketing and Leasing. The good response attests to the caliber
of the Certification Course which began in 2002 and has now been
widely recognized and commended as the professional course for
those in the shopping mall management industry! Our grateful thanks
must go to all our speakers who gave their time and commitment to
share their invaluable experiences with our course
participants.
PPKM shall also be organising the PRICELESS GEMS OF
CREATIVITY II from 22-23 November 2011. The sequel to the highly
successful 'Priceless Gems' series of conferences will once again
continue encompassing the central theme of 'creativity' covering an
array of topics from building architecture to social media
marketing to visual merchandising to case studies of successful
shopping malls. We look forward to meet you at our conference,
where the 'gurus' of the industry will share their insights and
views.
We have also enriched our perspectives with our Study Trip
to Australia from 15 to 21 May. With the close collaboration and
kind assistance from Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA),
we visited a dozen shopping malls in Sydney and Melbourne.
Hopefully in our November conference this year, we can have invited
speakers from Australia shopping malls to share their experiences
and knowledge.
On the home front, PPKM will be expanding to new premises soon
as we have outgrown the present secretariat's office. We will keep
you informed once our new home is ready for your visits!
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