“Joining forces with Vicinity will facilitate GMP’s continued growth and enhance the performance of omnichannel retail in Australia and deliver some ground-breaking new initiatives for retailers and customers.” Vicinity Centres owns and manages some of Australia’s leading physical retail destinations “GMP will add to Vicinity’s physical retail reach by offering established e-commerce brands, an audience of over 1.7 million online shoppers, and data and insights via Power Retail, Click Central, and two of the four biggest weeks on the Australian online retail calendar including Click Frenzy. “This is an ideal strategic fit – Vicinity Centres owns and manages some of Australia’s leading physical retail destinations, and GMP offers a substantial footprint in digital commerce” said GMP CEO Nathan Brown. GMP has also entered into an agreement for the acquisition of New Zealand based GrabOne, which is expected to complete by the end of October. Owner of Click Frenzy, Click Central, and Power Retail, GMP’s partnership with Vicinity will support its growth aspiration and play an important role in Vicinity’s expansion of its omnichannel retail presence. In the reception area a custom designed rug references the Robert Owns sculptures in the foyer providing a connection to the architecture of the building.Global Marketplace (GMP) and Vicinity Centres (VCX), have today announced a strategic partnership combining the national physical footprint of Vicinity’s 61 retail destinations with leading e-commerce events, data and marketplace owner GMP. Lighting has been used as an interesting design element with recessed lighting in the reception and boardroom giving the lighting quality of a skylight and work area up lighting from the top of storage elements.Ī strong yet simple palette of finishes and materials is used in both client and workspace areas to create a distinctive sophisticated environment. There are no offices in the new workplace and the most senior executives have a large workstation with an adjacent meeting room. A generous central breakout area supports informal meetings and provides a relaxing informal space for Novion’s people. All work areas have standing height meeting areas as a central focus for the teams as well as both enclosed meeting room and open discussion areas. Novion set a key objective to provide a great workplace for their people and FutureSpace responded with a planning strategy that facilitated everyone’s access to natural light and views.
The workplace was designed to reflect the stability and strength of Novion in an iconic Harry Seidler designed building which was undergoing a very significant refurbishment.
As Novion was effectively a new start up company, FutureSpace worked closely with Novion’s senior executives to develop a workplace that reflected the right image and brand for the business. Novion engaged FutureSpace to create their first workplace on Level 39 of the MLC Centre in the Sydney CBD. Novion were formerly known as the CFS Retail Property Trust Group (or CFX) after they broke previous ties with Commonwealth Bank and became independent. Novion Property Group is one of Australia’s leading retail property groups and manages over $14 billion in retail assets. Sydney, Australia | 2015 Creating a new workplace culture for a new business.