The fashion offer at Düren has been further improved through securing Esprit, an international high street retailer with 125 directly managed stores in Germany, on a new seven year lease.

The only vacant warehouse in Europort (1,445 sq m) has been let for 2.5 years to existing tenant Nippon Express, strengthening its presence on the estate.

A six year lease extension has been agreed with FedEx at Europort, demonstrating the attraction of the property to multi-national distributors.

Baxter, a global healthcare company, has signed a 3 year extension to its current lease and signed a new 5 year lease for part of the 12th floor.

The fashion offer at Stadtcentre has been enhanced with a new letting to Brax Menswear has been signed for 10 years. Brax is a highly regarded fashion retailer with over 900 outlets worldwide.

Morton, the operator of the IZD café has signed a lease extension for a further 6 years.

Planning permission has been granted for Building 2, part of the same forward purchase as Building 1. The second building will provide 2,500 sq m offices to be completed at the end of the year.

Stora Enzo, a paper and packaging company, has renewed its lease in the Tower for a further 5 years.

ÖBB, the Austrian state railway company, has signed a new 6 year lease for part of the 10th floor and renewed and extended their existing leases for over 6 years.

A new 6.5 year lease of part 21st floor has been concluded with Houf, an accounting and tax consultancy.

A 10 year lease extension to 31/12/2018 has been concluded with Essanelle, a national hairdressing group with 635 salons across Germany.

A new 7.5 year lease has been taken by Borealis, a leading designer and manufacturer of plastics. Borealis occupy the space for their head office function supporting their manufacturing facilities across Europe and America.

The pre-let office development to be occupied by Groupama has been successfully completed.

TY Nails have taken a new 10 year lease for a nail salon within the shopping centre which will further expand the facilities available to shoppers.

Verbund, Austria’s leading electricity company, has taken a new lease of over eight years for a new head office in the IZD Tower.

Practical completion has been achieved. The whole building (36,476 sq m offices) is pre-let to Casino for 10 years.

Mayersche, the national book retailer with 37 branches throughout Germany, has taken a ten year lease for a new bookstore in the Stadtcentre.

A lease of 2,739 sq m to key retailer Hennes & Mauritz has been extended until July 2013.