Property and retail giants to speak at UK’s largest retail property dealmaking event
Experts from John Lewis, NatWest, JLL, Savills and Matalan have joined the growing line-up of speakers at the UK’s largest retail property event.
GRO Retail’s Autumn Event is taking place on 30 September and 1 October 2025, at Old Billingsgate Market, London. It brings together more than 2,000 UK and international decision-makers from across the retail, grocery, hospitality, leisure, franchise and property sectors.
New speakers announced include Abbie Loftus, Partner & Senior Real Estate Portfolio Manager at John Lewis; Aaron Britton, Franchise Development Manager at NatWest; Tim Vallance, Head of UK Retail and Leisure at JLL; Stephen Toal, UK Head of Retail and Leisure Insights at Savills, and James Dorling, Property Director at Matalan.
Confirmed speakers include: Doug Galbraith, Head of Property, Pandora; Amir Mashkoor, Director, Miniso; Brett Parker, Property Director, GAIL’s Bakery; and representatives from SaveTheHighStreet.org and the British Franchise Association.
Rebecca Sawyer, Managing Director of GRO Retail, said: “This is a great opportunity to make deals that are vital to the growth of businesses and to get some key insight from experts in the field.
“Our speakers are from leading businesses in property, retail, legal services, franchising and everything in between.
“As well as fantastic speakers, we have key decision-makers from every sector and a meetings concierge service to ensure visitors have the time and space to meet with their top targets without wasting a minute.”
In addition to its speaker programme, the GRO Retail – Autumn Event will welcome representatives from major retail and lifestyle brands, including: Tapestry (Coach, Kate Spade New York, Stuart Weitzman), Hugo Boss, Sephora UK, ME+EM, The LEGO Group, Aesop and Mango.
Attendees include brands, landlords, developers, agents, franchise operators, shopping centre owners and service providers – all in one streamlined business environment.
GRO Retail enables organisations to market their site demand or availability more effectively, offering direct access to a diverse and engaged audience of key stakeholders.
Whether searching for a flagship location, exploring a first store opening or sourcing tenants for available space, the event is designed to accelerate retail property deal-making and business performance.
Delegates benefit from a programme of curated business meetings, targeted networking opportunities and expert-led content sessions, tailored to the needs of today’s evolving retail property market.
For more information see: https://groevents.com/retail-autumn or https://www.linkedin.com/company/gro-retail
