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title: "GRO Retail - Why Attend: Landlords"
description: Join the UK's largest retail property event. Connect with industry leaders, explore opportunities, and drive your business growth.
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# Commercial PROPERTY LANDLORDS

#### MEET NEW BRANDS ACTIVELY LOOKING TO EXPAND

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### WHY LANDLORDS ATTEND GRO RETAIL

##### **GRO IS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT THE COMMERCIAL PRIORITIES OF LANDLORDS RESPONSIBLE FOR LEASING PERFORMANCE, PIPELINE & ASSET VALUE.**

**By bringing live retailer demand together with available space — at scale — GRO Retail enables landlords to progress conversations that would otherwise take months of fragmented meetings.**

- Connect with new, emerging & established  retailers who are actively expanding 
- Access live retailer requirements in one place
- Reduce void periods by matching space with live demand
  
  Progress leasing, renewals and re-gears face-to-face
- Sense-check portfolio strategy against real market signals
- Build pipeline efficiently alongside your appointed agents

 

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### THE SCALE OF RETAILER DEMAND AT GRO IN 2026

![Group 59 (3)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Group%2059%20(3).svg)

##### 1,147 RETAILERS ATTENDED

![Group 59 (1)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Group%2059%20(1).svg)

##### 82.5 MIL SQ FT OF LIVE RETAILER REQUIREMENTS

![Group 59](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Group%2059.png)

##### 24% OF RETAILERS PLANNING 31+ NEW SITES

![Group 59 (2)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Group%2059%20(2).svg)

##### 20% INTERNATIONAL BRANDS EXPANDING IN THE UK

### BENEFITS OF GRO RETAIL

![Vector (1)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Vector%20(1).svg)

#### **MEET EXPANDING RETAILER & APPOINTED AGENT DECISION-MAKERS**

Pre-arrange face-to-face conversations with retailer founders, property directors, heads of acquisitions and appointed agents, enabling more productive discussions and faster next steps.

![Vector](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Vector.svg)

#### **FILL VACANCIES FASTER**

Meet retailers with live requirements aligned to your assets.

![Vector (4)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Vector%20(4).svg)

#### **DRIVE LEASING MOMENTUM**

Progress deals, renewals and re-gears in person.

![Vector (2)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Vector%20(2).svg)

#### **SHOWCASE UPCOMING SCHEMES & PROJECTS**

Present future developments, regeneration plans and leasing opportunities to a concentrated audience of expanding retailers and the agents who represent them — increasing early-stage visibility and market awareness.

![Vector (3)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Vector%20(3).svg)

#### **INFORM ASSET STRATEGY**

Understand shifts in retailer demand by format and location.

![Vector (5)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/The%20Market%20Place%20Theme%202025/Images/Vector%20(5).svg)

#### **STRENGTHEN EXECUTION WITH AGENTS**

Align with agents representing both retailer demand and landlord portfolios to accelerate deal execution.

We really feel that GRO is one of the key events of the of the year in terms of bringing everyone together. Having a meeting space within the conference is super important to us because it gives us a space that is just ours where we can enjoy meeting with our brand partners and our agents. Actually having the space to to sit down with them and see them face-to-face rather than on the phone or on Teams. It's a real, good way to connect with them.

There's a really high calibre of people attending and what I really love is that it's fluid, so you can just be walking across the room from one place to another and you're bumping into new contacts all the time, as well as that there's the chance to meet with everybody we already know and to reconnect.

##### Claire Dutton

 Leasing Director, Landsec

![LANDSEC (2)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/LANDSEC%20(2).png)

Hammerson are the owner, operator and investor in a number of UK and international retail destinations. Hammerson has attended GRO Retail for a number of years.

GRO provides a great opportunity to meet with both new and existing tenants - between myself and my colleagues, we've held between about 60-70 meetings today with a variety of companies.

##### Alex Hill

 Leasing Manager, Hammerson

![Hammerson](https://groevents.com/hubfs/Hammerson.png)

What’s so valuable is the face-to-face interaction - work that might take three or four months to achieve elsewhere, you can often do here in a single afternoon here.

In fact, at least half of our 20 UK sites have been influenced in some way by opportunities we’ve found through GRO Retail. It’s the perfect platform to launch new concepts to the market through the Soapbox Sessions, and we’ve already seen international interest which we’d never have expected.

##### Hamza Alli

 Development Director, Haute Dolci

![Haute Dolci (2)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/Haute%20Dolci%20(2).png)

GRO Retail is such a valuable forum for us at Places for London. Looking after around 1,500 retail businesses across 5,500 acres, this event gives us the chance to reconnect with our existing retailers, hear about their plans and expansions, and meet new retailers who want to understand more about our estate.

##### Samantha Bain Mollinson

 Head of Retail, Places For London

![Places for london  (3)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/Places%20for%20london%20%20(3).png)

As a people-focused industry, retail is all about connections - so events like GRO Retail are essential. It’s a leasing showcase, an insight platform, and a networking forum all in one. For us, it’s not just about the immediate pipeline for next year; conversations here are already shaping transactions for 2027 and beyond.

The event brings together retailers, landlords, and agencies in a way that’s broad and inclusive, covering everything from new market entrants to the big London talking points.

##### Rob Hargreaves

 Partner, Knight Frank

![Knight Frank](https://groevents.com/hubfs/Knight%20Frank.png)

GRO Retail is the meeting place for the property industry because it's quite a rare opportunity that brings everybody together. So much of this industry is about relationships and trust and people, so  having somewhere where everybody is together, to be able to share resources and insights and really feel part of the community, is key.

It's amazing because these are the connections, the relationships and the conversations that are so key to building our business going forward.

##### Rebecca Morter

 Chief Executive Officer, Lone Design Club

![Lone Design Club (2) 1](https://groevents.com/hubfs/Lone%20Design%20Club%20(2)%201.png)

GRO Retail has been an excellent opportunity for Dundee to showcase what we have to offer. For us, it was about putting Dundee on the map - meeting retailers, developers, and agents who might not have previously considered the city and highlighting the significant investment and regeneration opportunities available.

##### James Williamson

 Lead on Investment Company Engagement, Dundee Council

![Dundee logo  (2)](https://groevents.com/hubfs/Dundee%20logo%20%20(2).png)

### FIND YOUR NEXT TENANTS 

##### **GRO BRINGS TOGETHER THE FULL ECOSYSTEM REQUIRED TO PROGRESS RETAIL PROPERTY DEALS EFFICIENTLY.**

GRO brings together one of the most concentrated snapshots of live UK retail expansion demand, alongside the decision-makers and agents required to progress deals efficiently.

**You will meet:**

- Expanding UK and international retail brands
- Leasing, asset management and property directors
- Agents representing retailer mandates and landlord portfolios
- Stakeholders across high street, retail park, shopping centre and mixed-use assets

 

## participating brands include

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