Many retail chains are thinking about the development of a new format. Some chains are shifting profile, many are looking for "their trademark formula” for the first time. The most burning questions on the development of retail formats we asked Ernst Consenheim, a Dutch expert on strategies and retail formats. 
• Euroset enters agreement with Brightstar
• X5 acquisition of Kopeika delayed
• Kopeika desperately seeking funds
• Russia's DIY and Household Congress 2011 to be Produced in Association with EDRA
• Euroset enters agreement with Alfa Bank
• Dixy Group shareholders approve USD200 million loan
• Baskin-Robbins Russia sales up in H1
• Wendy’s looking to enter Russian market
• X5 Retail Group launches mobile network
• Viktoria granted approval to acquire Semeynaya Kopilka
• Lenta now 40% owned by August Meyer
• Starbucks delays St Petersburg opening
• Pharmacy Chain 36.6 narrows losses in Q1
• IKEA Russia sees sales and profit rise
• Kingfisher aims for market leadership in Russia
• Tekhnosila placed under court supervision
• Lenta testing compact hypermarket format
• Nastroyeniye closes stores and sells vending machine side of business
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Development of shopping centres still declining to a low point in 2011
The rate of development of new shopping centre space in Europe slowed considerably in 2009. It is unlikely that development levels will pick up before 2012 at the earliest, says real estate adviser Cushman & Wakefield in its new European Shopping Centre Development report.
86% of Russian internet consumers trust personal recommendations and become more skeptical towards other forms of advertizing.
