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  • The GFORM Way: Embracing the Future of Retail with an Integrated Approach


    During a late summer evening last week at an event location overlooking river Spree in Berlin, GFORM unfolded a new chapter in the realm of retail innovation. With over 200 attendees, the inaugural event was more than just a gathering – it was a shared exploration into the transformative potentials of taking an integrated building approach.
    The event focused on exploring “the GFORM Way“, a

  • Greenman OPEN Acquires Portfolio of 10 EDEKA Supermarkets for Approximately 60 Million Euros


    Greenman OPEN, one of Germany’s largest food-anchored retail real estate investment funds and Europe’s largest Article 9 Real Estate Fund, has acquired a portfolio of 10 standalone EDEKA supermarkets with a total let area of approximately 22,500 square meters. The retail properties are located in the federal states of Saxony, Bavaria, and Thuringia. The deal, known as the portfolio “Chase” in

  • Interview with GFORM’s CEO: Future Proofing Retail Real Estate


    GFORM is once again the main sponsor of the German GRI event this year. In anticipation of the upcoming event, we share an exclusive interview with our CEO James McEvoy, who gives an insight into the future of food retail. He will also be co-chairing the “ESG & Innovation” panel at the event. For those who cannot attend in person, the interview is an excellent opportunity to get an insigh

  • Blood Donation Event at Westerwald Arkaden


    In Germany, there is a total need for 15,000 blood donations every day, and yet blood reserves are often in short supply. Due to this urgent requirement, we as the manager of the retail centre Westerwald Arkaden, have recently organised a blood donation campaign in the centre we manage, in cooperation with the German Red Cross. As part of this, a blood donor bus and an information stand were

  • GFORM is official partner of Handelsimmobilienkongress 2024

    GFORM is an official partner of this year’s Retail Real Estate Congress (Handelsimmobilienkongress) 2024!
    We are delighted to be part of this outstanding event, which is organised by the EHI Retail Institute and the German Retail Association (HDE) in cooperation with the GCSP German Council of Shopping Places and, for the first time this year, with the ZIA Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss e.V.

  • GFORM Takes Over Management of New DGNB Gold Certified EDEKA Supermarket


    GFORM, manager of Greenman OPEN’s (OPEN) portfolio one of the largest food-anchored retail real estate investment funds in Germany, announces the successful completion and handover of Greenman OPEN’s latest acquisition, a newly built EDEKA supermarket located in Freyburg, Saxony-Anhalt. The property, with a let area of approximately 2,515 sqm, is the newest addition to the fund’s growing port

  • Winners of Greenman Group Future Food Retail Awards Announced


    We are proud to announce that our parent company, the Greenman Group, has announced the winners of its inaugural Future Food Retail Awards. The awards ceremony, held in Dublin, brought together c. 160 industry leaders from finance, investment, retail, press, entrepreneurship, real estate, and academia.
    This year’s overall winner was the French start-up Spore.Bio, who invented the first ins

  • High-Five Interview with our Tenant Kaufland


    We are excited about the recent interview we conducted with Kaufland Immobilien Deutschland, in which our CEO, James McEvoy, provides deep insights into the vision and strategies of GFORM as well as its parent company, the Greenman Group.
    In the conversation with Susanne Gehle, Managing Director at Kaufland Immobilien Deutschland, James McEvoy emphasises the resilience of the food retail s

  • Greenman Group Launches Growing Further Innovation Awards


    We are thrilled to announce that our parent company the Greenman Group has launched its very first pan-European Innovation Awards, highlighting their continuous commitment to innovation and progress. As part of the Group, we’re excited to witness the positive impact this initiative will bring to our network and the industries we serve.
    The competition will identify, recognise, and reward b

  • Opening of a new EDEKA market in Taucha


    This week saw the successful opening of a new EDEKA store in Taucha, for which GFORM will take over asset and property management starting in September.
    The impressive property, with a lettable area of around 2,500 sqm, was acquired by Greenman OPEN in March this year as part of the 2021 developer framework agreement with Schröder Holding and is let long-term to EDEKA Nordbayern-Sachsen-Th

  • GFORM’s CEO James McEvoy speaks to REFIRE about the German real estate market in 2023


    “The cost of living, rising infla­tion, and high interest rates are shaping the consumer landscape,” said James McEvoy, CEO of GFORM, a commercial real estate and financial management platform, with a focus on grocery-anchored real estate in Germany, and which was launched by The Greenman Group last month.
    “Across the retail sector, this is reflected amongst the subdued shopping mood of co

  • GFORM celebrates topping-out ceremony for new EDEKA supermarket with residential development in Middle Franconia


    GFORM, manager of the Greenman OPEN (OPEN) portfolio of German food retail properties, has celebrated the topping-out ceremony for a local retail centre in a four-level building in Dinkelsbühl in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia together with OPEN’s general contractor Schoofs Immobilien GmbH Frankfurt. A full-range Edeka supermarket is being built on a 9,400 square metre site next

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