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CE is further expanding its service offering at the shopping centers it operates and is launching its first cooperation with the parcel service providers DPD and GLS to set up parcel stations at center parking garages. The plan is to equip a total of up to 50 ECE-operated parking garages at its centers with parcel stations by mid-2026.

ECE continues on its growth path and achieves another strong leasing result in 2025: a total of around 770,000 m² of retail area was leased in the managed centre portfolio - 550,000 m² of which is in Germany. With more than 2,700 new lease contracts, strong international brands and successful re-letting of former department stores' space, ECE has strengthened its position as a leading retail Specialist and increased its leasing rate to an impressive 95 per cent.

As of 1 January 2026, ECE Marketplaces is reorganising its management team and setting the course for future growth: Joanna Fisher (CEO), Robert Heinemann (Managing Director) and Jan Lorenz (CFO) will form the management team in future.

Jan Lorenz, an experienced finance and governance expert, joins the management team. Robert Heinemann is moving to ECE Marketplaces as Managing Director of ECE Group Services and will be responsible for corporate services in the future.

After 15 months of construction, the fully let "Food Garden" with eight food concepts in sustainable timber construction opens today in the Main-Taunus-Zentrum - a new highlight for one of Germany's most successful shopping centers.

ECE is investing in the further development and value enhancement of Gesundbrunnen Center Berlin and is expanding the property to include hotel use on the roof of the shopping center: an additional building section with a total of 162 design apartments is being built there, which will be operated by the serviced apartments brand STAYERY.

ECE Work & Live has sold the Heilbronn logistics center it developed. The purchaser is the asset manager AXA IM Alts, which is acquiring the fully let, state-of-the-art logistics center on behalf of its clients.

The shopping center operator ECE Marketplaces has once again achieved a strong lasing performance in the shopping centers under its management in 2024 that exceeds the already very successful results of the previous year.

Leasing success for the Thier-Galerie: ECE Marketplaces has relocated the Inditex brands Stradivarius, Bershka and Pull&Bear to the shopping center in Dortmund.

Deka Immobilien has commissioned ECE Marketplaces with the long-term management and leasing of the "das Schloss" shopping center in Berlin.

ECE Work & Live has successfully placed the logistics center in Hamburg-Billbrook. The purchaser is an investor represented by Savills Investment Management.