The conference will be held on September 22, 2005 in Moscow, «Expocenter» on Krasnaya Presnya.
       Bernd Hallier, Managing Director of European Institute of Trade (EHI) (Germany) will characterize the modern tendencies on European and Asian markets.
       Konstantin Sakharov, CEO at «Regiony» company, is going to discuss the regional expansion of chain projects. 
       Viktor Konteev, Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg city, will share the experience of shopping center expertise in Yekaterinburg. 
       Lewis Allen (HOK International Limited, Great Britain), Designer Wolfgang Gruschwitz (Germany) and Tatiana Matushina (Marketing Research and Consulting Agency «Market») will deliver the latest thinking on competitive shopping centers development. 
       The thoughts how to maintain the competitive ability of retail stores in a shopping center will be shared by Alexander Fedorov, CEO at «Wild Orchid» company.
       Jeff Kershaw (Noble Gibbons), Sergey Yashko (GFK RUS), Oleg Voytsekhovsky (Russian Council of Shopping Centers) and Vladislav Zabrodin (Capital Legal Services) will participate in the round-table talk «Retail space market in Russia: when saturation comes». 
       The conference will be host to «MALL-club 2005» and will run parallel with the Xth International exhibition of trade equipment, automation systems and store technical equipment «Shop Design Russia».
       About 250 retail real estate market experts together with the local authorities – «Consumer market» members of Russian cities Association will take part in the «MALL-club» as well.
       Organizer: Russian Council of Shopping Centers.
       Legal support: Capital Legal Services.
       Sponsors: «MAGITEL», «Maksimov. Konditer-Klass», «Legenda Kryma».
       Official edition: «MALL» magazine.
       Informational partners: magazines «Vedomosti. Nedvizhimost», «Commercial Real Estate», «Mir & Dоm. Business», «Torgovoye oborudovaniye. Luchshii vybor», «Shop Management», Europaproperty.com, Internet-portals Arendator.ru, RealEstate.ru, Retail.ru, Guide to Property, Marketer.ru, Web-plan, RWAY agency, «Alpina Business Books» publishing house.

For further information contact:
Ekaterina Lyskova (PR-manager of Russian Council of Shopping Centers) –
tеl.: +7 (095) 744-01-60, 152-26-29, 7-999-000
lyskova@rusretail.ru,

www.mall-expo.ru
Program of conference http://eng.mall-expo.ru/mall_club_program/
Speakers, speech theses http://eng.mall-expo.ru/mall_club_speakers/
Participants http://eng.mall-expo.ru/mall_club_visitors/