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The latest Slovenian center has won the international award in the category “New center developments over 15,000 to 45,000 square meters”. Europe’s largest retail real estate association, the European Council of Shopping Places (ECSP), awards the prizes for particularly outstanding projects in the shopping real estate sector.

The most recent Slovenian center has received the worldwide Shopping Center Award in the “International Shopping Center – New Build” category. The award is in recognition of the particularly high level of customer focus to be found at the mixed-use ALEJA center.

EUROPARK in Salzburg gained was granted an award in the “Established Shopping Centers” category by the International Council of Shopping Centers. The award is only presented to centers that received an ICSC award shortly after their opening and that performed extraordinarily well in all areas for at least 10 years thereafter.

WEBERZEILE and the town of Ried in the Innkreis district won the “ICSC Regeneration Award 2017”, by which the ICSC honors centers that have been opened within the European region within the prior two years and that have been acting as pioneers in making downtown areas more attractive.

MURPARK gained the ICSC European Shopping Center Award in the “Established Centers” category. The Graz-based shopping center convinced the jury via its well thought-out traffic concept, which was established via a public-private partnership with the city of Graz, as well as the infrastructure and the quality of stay.

In 2008, Q19 ranked among the world’s top three shopping centers in the “Shopping Center of less than 15,000 Square Meters” category.

MURPARK in Graz won the “MAPIC – Retail Future Project Award 2005” as part of the global competition organized by the “Plaza” trade journal. In the “Best Shopping Center Near a Transport Hub” category, MURPARK achieved an impressive second place.

In the latest Ecostra Shopping Center Performance Report, SES received the best rating from the tenants surveyed for its competence and performance in the operation of shopping centers (leasing, management, marketing, etc.).

LE BRENTELLE and SES Italy were awarded a “Certificate of Merit 2024” in July 2024. The Italian National Committee of Shopping Centers (CNCC) awarded the successful center event “Dritti al Cuore” – “Straight to the Heart” with the coveted award as one of the best out of a total of 98 participating projects in various categories.

CITYPARK Graz is the winner of the ECSP Solal Marketing Awards 2022 in gold for its impressive street art exhibition “The Mystery of Banksy”. Silver was awarded to the SES digital initiative yip.at for stationary retailers, service providers, restaurateurs and craftsmen. With the Solal Awards, the ECSP recognizes marketing expertise in the European shopping mall industry.

Every year, the Austrian Event Award acknowledges Austria’s best events. For the glamorous Golden Opening of FISCHAPARK Wiener Neustadt, SES Spar European Shopping Centers received a Bronze award in the ”Corporate Public Events“ category.

In May 2014, EUROPARK won the coveted Gold Award in Amsterdam for its innovative “Poetry Peep – the world’s smallest theater” project. The prize is awarded every year to honor outstanding marketing achievements in the shopping center industries in Europe and South Africa.

CITYPARK Graz won the ICSC Solal Marketing Gold Award in the “Cause-related Marketing” category for a sustainable competition amongst school classes. The award is one of the most prestigious quality seals in the industry.

VARENA won the international ICSC Solal Marketing Silver Award in the “Public Relations” category. The award was granted in acknowledgment of the spectacular implementation of the world’s biggest candy mosaic at VARENA.

VARENA is entered in the Guinness Book of Records for the world’s biggest candy mosaic.

CITYPARK Graz won the ICSC Solal Marketing Award in the “Alternative Revenue” category. As the first house music club integrated into a shopping center, “I love IBIZA Clubbing” makes history above the roofs of Graz and contributes to the success of CITYPARK.

ZIMBAPARK received the ICSC Solal Marketing Award in the “Sales Promotion & Event” category. Customers modeled for photo artists, and the large-scale photographs formed Vorarlberg’s biggest photo exhibition, which was shown for many weeks.

In 2010, SILLPARK won the ICSC Solal Marketing Award in the “Alternative Revenue” category. It was the only Austrian shopping center that the International Council of Shopping Centers honored for the nationwide, family-centered initiative “Child & Co.”.

Together with its customers, IPERCITY created the world’s biggest photo album, which made it into the Guinness Book of Records as a group world record.

In 2009, ATRIO won the ICSC Solal Marketing Silver Award in the “Sales, Promotion & Events” category, demonstrating that SES sets international standards, not only in architecture and sustainability, but also in terms of location marketing.

In Vienna, FISCHAPARK is honored with the ICSC Solal Marketing Gold Award in the “B2B Communication” category for its “Employee Program and 1st Employee Award” project.

In Prague, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) honored EUROPARK Salzburg with the “Solal Marketing Award” for its “Piano Days” marketing campaign.

In 2021, SES was awarded the title of “Climate Active Mobile Project Partner” by the Austrian Ministry of Climate Protection. We have actively invested in the installation of e-charging stations in the parking areas of our shopping centers for a number of years, and we intend to install 21 additional charging points to the 130 e-charging stations we currently have by the end of 2022.

In 2017, Q19 was the first shopping center in Vienna to complete the ÖkoProfit module, and continues to do so until today. The former ÖkoProfit module has become OekoBusiness and is geared towards decreasing costs of operation, for example, via the efficient use of resources and raw materials, as well as the reduction of waste.

In 2013, VARENA submitted itself to BREEAM AT In-use certification of existing premises. In 2017, the excellent result was surpassed in the context of the BREEAM In-use recertification: since then the center now ranks as “excellent” with regard to both its operational management and its building performance.

In 2021, FISCHAPARK in Wiener Neustadt underwent a BREEAM-AT-InUse inventory certification and achieved a rating of “Very Good” in operational and building performance.

In 2009, ATRIO received the Best-of-the-Best Award for Sustainable Design in Las Vegas (USA), confirming its position as the world’s most sustainable shopping center in its category. Within a short time, it had become a role model in terms of sustainability and ecologically responsible behavior.

In 2009, ATRIO was awarded the TRIGOS in the “Society” category in acknowledgment of its social and ecological commitment, in particular, its unique technology of resource-saving energy generation.

ATRIO won the ReSource Award 2008, which honors sustainable behavior in the fields of environment, social affairs, and economic efficiency. Operator SES was the first, and only, European developer to receive the ReSource Award 2008.

Q19 won the ReSource Award 2008, which honors sustainable behavior in the fields of environment, social affairs, and economic efficiency. Operator SES was the first, and only, European developer that received the ReSource Award 2008.

In December 2007, EUROPARK won the Sustainable Design Award for sustainable construction, making it the most sustainable shopping center in its category.

In 2006, the center was awarded the title “Family-friendly Company”. Special emphasis was placed in flexible working time models as well as corporate childcare facilities. The State of Salzburg honors companies that are particularly family-friendly and act as pioneers in the development of new work-life-balance models.

ATRIO was awarded the most prestigious prize in its industry as the most innovative shopping center in 2008. The international jury was particularly impressed by the intercultural concept of “senza confini” that ATRIO has implemented at the border triangle of Austria, Slovenia, and Italy. The concept was planned and implemented by SES, all the way from the architectural design to the creation of flyers.

In the competition for the ICSC International Design and Development Award 2008, Q19 ranked among the top three in the “Shopping Centers of less than 15,000 square meters” category. The Vienna-based shopping quarter convinced the international jury with its concept of social sustainability.

EUROPARK was awarded the most prestigious industry prize in its category, as the world’s best shopping center in 2007. In addition to its well thought-out and functional architectural design, it was mainly its service, leisure, and cultural facilities, as well as its social activities, that made it into a vital district center.

The unique architecture of MAX.CENTER Wels was honored in 2006, when the center received the “Certificate of Merit” in the context of the ”30th International Design and Development Award“ by the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers).

Just after its opening, EUROPARK Salzburg was awarded the Salzburg Provincial Architecture Awards, via which the Salzburg government supports and acknowledges exemplary performance in the field of architecture within the federal state.

EUROPARK Salzburg was awarded the Austrian Builder Award 1998 in Graz. The Austrian Builder Award is an architectural award that the Central Association of Austrian Architects has been giving out since 1967.

SES Spar European Shopping Centers was the first, and only, European developer to receive the ReSource Award 2008.