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Why do we need so many Consultants?
Well, how many consultants do we need? Just one! Someone with enough experience to tell us exactly who we should hire for:
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By the time we have listed them all a day is gone. And tomorrow we have to add all the names of the directors, their dedicated project managers and their team members.
The future of m & m
Malls & More has been in beta now for some time and the full release was scheduled for late last year.
We have taken the time over the Christmas and the New Year to consider the future of m&m in detail.
Taking stock of the project we have to realise that the idea of developing a professional network for people in this specific niche of the commercial real estate business has not been successful. Our formula of information and networking did not work out the way we had hoped. There are plenty of real estates sites now offering networking in addition to their publishing activities.
Our advertising budget is also not big enough and enthusiasm does not make up for that.
Happy New Year 2011
The outlook for 2011 is still mixed. Nevertheless we wish all a happy, prosperous and better Year.
We have been discussing the economic crisis for some time now and our outlook has been rather muted all along.
There will be no quick return to the time pre-2008. The coming year 2011 will be tough with the necessary cuts by governments biting. Of course, on the other side are countries and companies sitting on a lot of cash. But where should they invest if the outlook is rather dim and uncertain in the old consumer driven economies.
Double Dip .... what's up?
m&m has been a bit quite for a while and now we are going to bury this in the summer hole.
Double dip Recession
You can run a search on "double dip" here on m&m using this link. What you will find is that I and we at m&m always believed that we are heading for a double dip recession. 
It more and more looks like we were, unfortunately, right.
The main reason to believe a double dip recession would be unavoidable is (was) based on the figures and an outlook to the future. I talked about the certainty of a recession in 2007 because it is what happens. After a boom comes a recession - as certain is few things in life.
When we were heading into the recession in late 2007 / 2008 we slowly understood the immense size of the debt build up. Well, we had been warned of the trillions piling up for years - especially in the US and in Britain. And there was the deluded, unchecked spending sprees in places from Ireland to Greece - crash landing a deceived population.
With such large debt everywhere and governments trying to cushion the harsh landing on borrowed money and time - it became clear that we will not recover easily and that this softening the blow was the start for the double dip.
Sure, the double-dip will not be the same everywhere. Some larger countries and economies like Germany and France will be hit less, though, no one is out of the woods on this.
The big Crunch .. or not?
A recent trip to St. Petersburg ...
... it had been a while that I made my way to this interesting city at the far end of the Baltic Sea. I was mid May 2011.
The recession (2008-9) hit Russia as hard, probably harder than many other countries, but we don't hear too much about it. Many international companies down-sized in Russia and some left.
Most large (commercial) construction projects stopped across Russia - with the exception of Sochi. 
A few projects though were completed recently in St. Petersburg’s retail landscape - "Stockmann" and "Galeria" - just a stone throw apart.
I was the first architect on the project after it was restarted to help the initial clients to develop a new concept for this failed project linked to the hi-speed fiasco trying to link Moscow with St. Petersburg.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship is essential to m&m. Sponsorship provides the background of running the services and allowing m&m to move forward.
How it works:
- You need to have a personal account at m&m.
- Contact us and apply for a Sponsorship account. Use an email address that has not been used for another account on m&m.
Once you have the account log in and you will have the following options under Add Content : (note - the links are active)
| Basic Listing | This is our free list for organisation and services | You should add your organisation here as this is a free service that will remain even if one day you decide not to continue with your spnosorship account. |
| Sponsor Page | This is the core page for promoting your organisation | for more details about the information you can add here read on ... |
| Pay Check Record | This allows you to add what people are earning in the industry. | With this information for are adding to the resource of checking pay levels in the industry and thus you will be able to see the trends and levels to create fair pay in business, for yourselves and within your organisation. You will also get an idea of what people expect. The data added here is anonymous. |
Mall Directories on m&m
This was one of the first new features we created during the early alpha days of m&m.
The directories are lists of malls and can be sorted in many different ways:
- Go to a list of countries to find a country specific listing - here.
- You can view all or just one country here and
- here you can see all and several countries.
In the different directories you can then click on the headings and sort them up or down (ascending or descending) - clicking on any heading below will open the directory in a new window / tab:
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Financal Calculators
This tool will allow you to calculate not just mortgages, but also the cost of financing on the basis of repayment (Interest and Capital / Principal).
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Stockmann opens store in St. Petersburg
Stockmann unveiled their Russian flagship department store on Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg opening the eyes of retailers to the hidden potential of the Russian market.
On Friday, November 12.2010, the largest department store of the Finnish retailer Stockmann opened in in Russia in St. Petersburg (20 000 square meters).
A retailers dream or not ....
The recent arrival of the Sat Nav for High Street Shopping that we predicted in the summer reminded me to take another look into the future.
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