On Saturday 19 September, c. 3,000 people came to Elsterwerdaer Platz at Biesdorf Center in Berlin for the Vereinstag, a day of local association stands, stage performances and activities held to mark World Children's Day. It was the fourth year in a row the event...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) Group has committed to provide at least €30 billion for climate adaptation by 2030, double its adaptation financing over the previous five years, with the need to help with increased risk of heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods. The EIB's president,...
As of 12 October 2026, Greenman Energy's charging network has served 20,479 unique customers and delivered more than 2.2 GWh of energy through its charging points, across sites in Greenman OPEN's grocery portfolio.The timing is worth noting. Germany’s Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt reported a record 34.5% battery-electric share...
Emissions across Greenman OPEN's grocery-anchored portfolio have fallen by c. 27% over four years, and the EV charging infrastructure Greenman Energy has installed on those sites has paid for itself, delivering 893,445 kWh across 32,108 charging sessions in the past 12 months. Both results sit...
Across Europe's largest grocery markets, e-commerce still hasn't become the threat to physical retail that it did in other categories. In Germany, online grocery sits at roughly 0.4% of the market. In France and Spain, our Signals to Savour research found the channel continuing to...
Food inflation in Germany hit 12.7% through 2022 and 2023, and the natural assumption was that grocery tenants were under pressure. However, the data says the opposite - headline inflation ran at roughly half that rate, and because rents index to the general price level...
Two of the Group's real estate businesses are becoming one. GFORM and White Bird are merging to form Greenman Germany, a new, closely aligned sister company to Greenman Poland. The two businesses bring genuinely complementary strengths: GFORM's expertise in commercial and tenant relationship management, and...
German grocery retail has barely grown its physical footprint since 2019. Per McKinsey and EuroCommerce's State of Grocery Retail Europe 2026, German retail space actually contracted slightly over that period (-2.4%), while the European average expanded by 4.6%. And yet sales per square metre in...
Getting a clear read on how a single property is performing has always meant stitching things together – energy figures from one system, carbon data from another, footfall from somewhere else entirely. This October, that changes. edyfi is launching a platform that brings energy, carbon,...
What "specialist" actually meansGreenman Investments is the Greenman Group's alternative investment fund manager. We began in European grocery-anchored real estate, and that's still where most of our track record sits. A lot of managers call themselves specialists. We think the word only means something if...
It was wonderful to celebrate the opening of our new office with so many business partners, investors, colleagues and friends who have been part of and helped Greenman over the past few years. Having outgrown our last office, the new space in Berlin set over three floors, provides us with ample room to expand into as we continue to grow.
A special thank you to his excellency, Ambassador Nicholas O’Brien for speaking at the reception and to our friends at Lough Ree Distillery for bringing their Slingshot Irish Gin to the event for us to try.
As 2020 is the start of a new decade we wanted to look forward and consider what will/may influence retail and real estate funds, in particular Greenman OPEN (GMO), as we move towards 2030.
200 participants joined our panel of experts in an open and frank discussion on what technologies are impacting the retail and real estate markets.
Panellists
Christian Schimanski, Hamburg Commercial Bank, Germany
Dr Holger Wolf, White & Case LLP, Germany
Lynda Boylan, Manna.Aero, Ireland
Dr Angelus Bernreuther, Kaufland, Germany
Emily Bohill (Moderator), Bohill Partners, London
Insights from the Day
– The outlook for bricks and mortar German grocery stores looks stable with digitalisation focusing on addressing customer needs & overall retail experience.
– Drone deliveries could provide a low cost, high speed, environmentally friendly solution to last mile logistics, potentially working together with grocery stores in the future.
– Blockchain has the ability to revolutionise the way real estate sector operates from smart contracts to management and execution of property sales and leases.
– The continuation of a lower for longer interest rate environment will result in debt remaining cheaper for longer & yield gaps remaining significant. – Greenman OPEN targets to achieve €1bn AUM by the end of 2020.
Merry Christmas
from everyone in Greenman. Our offices will be closed from Wednesday, 24th December. And will reopen on
Friday, 2nd January.