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Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth has appointed Greg Lumley as its new Centre Director. Greg will have overall responsibility for continuing to improve Drake Circus to benefit both customers and retailers. Greg has more than 26 years experience in the retail sector and significant experience in managing shopping centres. Greg was Centre Manager at [...]
A team of young entrepreneurs from Colyton Grammar School have shown the business flair of young Lord Sugars and come away with the Best Business Award at the Young Enterprise Trade Fair held at the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter today (Saturday 24th March 2012). The Colyton Young Enterprise team of year 12 students had [...]
Popular children’s TV character Fireman Sam will be thrilling his fans with a visit to Drake Circus on Easter Monday, 9th April. Sam will be making timed appearances during the day in the lower mall outside Primark. He will be on hand to meet his fans at 11.00am, 12 noon, 1.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm [...]
Students and science engineers from Plymouth University will be bringing science to life as part of National Science and Engineering Week, when they visit Waterstones in Drake Circus with robots and other scientific wonders. The event will take place between 11.00am and 4.00pm on Sunday 18th March. The University is bringing a collection of its [...]
Young entrepreneurs from schools and colleges across the South West will showcase their talent at the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter on Saturday 24th March, when the centre hosts the Young Enterprise Exeter Trade Show. For the past months budding entrepreneurs have been developing a wide range of innovative and exciting products. Young Enterprise has [...]
Fans of Sesame Street will be in for a treat on Thursday 16th February, when Elmo comes to visit Drake Circus! Elmo and his friends are starring in Sesame Street Live at the Plymouth Pavilions, but he is taking time out of his schedule to come to the centre between 4.00pm and 5.00pm to meet [...]
Thanks to Sky+ I was able to catch the first episode of Mary Portas’s new series “Mary Portas: Secret Shopper” at the weekend, and it left me feeling even more strongly about the role shopping centres should take in celebrating the good customer service that is offered within their malls and precincts. In an earlier [...]
As struggling retailers announce their annual figures, and the media ups the impact of the rise in VAT to 20 per cent, what can shopping centre PR do to take away the fear in 2011? There’s a subtle yet definite difference between the PR that retailers do to encourage shoppers to spend, and the activity [...]
