Australia Will Have A Large Number Of International Brands Coming In Coming Years.

Commercial real estate experts predict that there will be a large number of international brands coming in the coming years, and Australian consumers will face more choices.

Last Thursday, the British fashion giant Topshop announced that the company will open third Australian outlets in the new fashion district of Highpoint, Melbourne's market value of 300 million yuan.

< p > next week, the Spanish fashion "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "clothing" /a "chain store Zara will also open in Australia's eighth branches in the redevelopment center.

Although developers are still tight lipped, they have confirmed that more international brands will come in the next few weeks or even months.

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P brand clothing Gap opened the first flagship store in Melbourne Chadstone shopping center in August 2010, and opened the prelude to large-scale international brands entering the Australian market. Zara also opened its first branch in Sydney in April 2011.

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< p > according to the latest report compiled by Colliers International, it is estimated that the international retailers will set up 235 branches in Australia in the next five years, covering 220 thousand square meters in the Australian retail market.

The total area of international retailers in Australia recently opened in Australia has reached a total area of 32 thousand and 500 square meters.

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< p > the report points out that apart from luxury brands and warehousing stores such as Ikea and Costco, about 28 international brands are looking for suitable address locations or are expanding their business scale in Australia.

Among them, nearly 40% of the international a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp" > brand clothing "/a", from the United States, such as Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, Forever 21 and J.Crew brands are looking for stores, the proportion of British and Canadian retail brands in the Australian inter national brand is 22% and 13% respectively, and Sweden and Japan brands accounted for 6%.

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< p > the report also points out that most of the international brands in Australia belong to the fashion and general clothing industry, showing that Australian consumers are in favor of fashion.

Michael Bate, head of retail at Colliers International, said Australia's strong economy is the main factor attracting many overseas retailers to open stores in Australia.

He said Australia's economic prospects have attracted many retailers in North America and Europe, whose business in these countries has been stagnant for a long time.

In contrast, the fundamentals of the Australian economy are quite strong.

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< p > Highpoint Shopping Centre in Melbourne will be the first shopping center in Australia to combine Zara and Topshop under the same roof. Highpoint's owner and developer GPT Group development manager, Philip Mark, points out that the international brand will merge into a whole.

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The P Colliers International report also pointed out that international brands including Swedish retailer H&M will open flagship stores in Sydney and Melbourne this year. Others such as Japan, a href=, //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_h.asp, clothing retailers, /a and Uniqlo will also open shops in Melbourne's Lonsdale Street new shopping mall in the second half of this year.

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< p > Topshop/Topman plans to open 15 Australian branches. At present, there will be 15 outlets in three branches, and 20 and 25 in Zara and Uniqlo respectively, and there will be 15 outlets.

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