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Rely on Europe's Shopping Center Market Leader
As the European market leader in the shopping center sector, ECE has been broadly positioned on the market for over five decades. Each of the approximately 200 shopping centers is unique and managed by us in the best possible way.
Our centers impress visitors with their individual architecture, their mixing of national and international, and their locally and regionally-based shopping concepts, all of which is tailored to their respective locations. Our 20,000 retail partners benefit from shops in prime locations and in sizes that offer them numerous opportunities to optimally develop their concepts.

"Shopping centers are more than just places to shop: they are shop windows, meeting places, places of experience and service providers for the residents around them – in other words, urban marketplaces. Designing these versatile microcosms today for tomorrow has always been our motto."
Joanna Fisher, CEO ECE Marketplaces
Shopping of the future: Ready for tomorrow
With trendy gastronomy and entertainment offers, space concepts at the cutting edge of technology and innovative services such as the Digital Mall and Connected Commerce, which merge offline and online commerce, we succeed in creating highly frequented hotspots for today and tomorrow.
23.2
€ bn.
retail sales in the centers
7.000.000
m²
Total sales area in all malls
3,4
million
visitors per day in the centers
"As a company based in Frankfurt, we are particularly pleased that we saw the potential of the entire Palais Quartier complex, including the MyZeil shopping center, when we acquired it in 2014 and have now realized it together with ECE.
Markus Wickenträger, Managing Director DWS
"Union Investment and ECE can look back on more than 15 years of partnership in the management of shopping centers. ECE currently manages a portfolio of seven assets for Union Investment with a volume of around €1.5 billion for Union Investment. Even in challenging times, the partnership with ECE has proven to be reliable and solid. A good basis for future cooperation."
Norman Naehrig, Senior Asset Manager Union Investment Real Estate
"Customers' expectations of shopping centers are getting higher. At the same time, however, it is difficult for existing malls in particular to implement and keep up with costly conversions, technical innovations and the digitalization trend. At the pep shopping center in Munich-Neuperlach, we took the opportunity together with ECE to expand the center with a new building - and it paid off: on average, footfall and length of stay are now 20% higher than before the repositioning and sales have also increased by almost 10%. I have always experienced the cooperation with ECE as a partnership and on an equal footing, and the on-site support was excellent."
Niklas Baldauf, Portfolio Manager Nuveen Real Estate
"Since our appointment as Center Manager for the Königsbau-Passagen in Stuttgart in 2011, we have built up an excellent and long-term relationship with ECE. Together, we have successfully developed and implemented a comprehensive strategy to significantly increase Annual rents and achieve full occupancy. In particular, ECE has succeeded in attracting a large number of national and international premium tenants, enabling us to turn the center into one of the top shopping addresses in Baden-Württemberg."
Nick Halpin, Director, Head of Finance EvansRandall Investor