Support for start-up entrepreneurs
We promote SMEs and provide start-up retailers with new opportunities in our centers. Half of all ECE's tenants are single-outlet retailers and regional chain stores – and this is the way it will stay despite the increasing concentration in the retail industry. ECE sees it as its mission to
- improve the prospects for small and medium-sized retailers,
- secure jobs,
- create a counterweight to the increasing concentration and mega-chain trend in the retail sector,
- stimulate new investment,
- support the process of change towards a post-industrial service society
- and encourage and facilitate regional trade.
ECE provides wide-ranging start-up assistance for creative people with promising business ideas. We are convinced that it is both possible and necessary to start up successful new businesses. They generate investment, new jobs and greater variety in the retail sector. We offer a broad portfolio of support measures for start-up entrepreneurs:
- Start-up exchanges
- Advisory services for start-up entrepreneurs
- Franchise exchanges
- Provision of shop premises
- Preferential rents
- Integration in a holistic retailing concept
- Planning advice from ECE architects
- Investment subsidies for shop conversion
- Arrangement of finance
- Support on the advertising front
- Advice on product ranges
- Advice on sales promotion strategies
- Event management
- Provision of joint facilities
A tailored and balanced tenant and branch mix is one of the trademarks of our professionally managed shopping centers. It ensures that ECE shopping centers help to revitalise the inner cities and underpins the status of the cities in the increasing competition between metropolises.
Please call our Shop leasing hotline for further information.
