JOHN SHAW has joined ING REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT as the assistant fund manager to the ING Retail Property Fund Britannica, having previously worked at DTZ as a director in the London investment valuation team.

Security solutions provider, ADAMS RITE, has appointed DAVID WIGGLESWORTH as its new managing director. He will replace Iain Mackay, Adams Rite's current chairman and acting managing director, who has retired. His previous senior roles include two as MD, operating within the print franchise and electrical industries.

Independent planning consultants DPP has strengthened its Leeds team with the appointment of NATHAN FRANKLIN, a town planner from Adelaide, South Australia. And in Belfast, DPP has appointed planner ÁINE MCELHATTON who joins from the Belfast office of architects WDR & RT Taggart.

Leisure consultancy SHELLEY SANDZER has promoted senior surveyor VICTORIA OATES to associate director and has recruited OLIVIA WESTLAKE as a graduate surveyor as the company continues to grow its professional services team.

Former Manchester Evening News reporter and editor of the Pink Paper, JUSTIN WEBB, has been appointed as press and PR officer at the TRAFFORD CENTRE.

Developer WILSON BOWDEN and managing agent DTZ have appointed SIMON PULLEN as centre manager of the Eagles Meadow shopping and leisure centre in Wrexham ahead of its opening in October. He has previously managed shopping centres in Hereford, Chippenham and the Atlantic Wharf Leisure Village, in Cardiff Bay.

National fit-out and refurbishment specialist ISG RETAIL AND LEISURE has appointed SARAH DOWD as head of marketing, a role that will encompass all three ISG Retail and Leisure offices in Cambridgeshire, Kent and Lancashire.

MCARTHURGLEN, Europe's leading developer, owner and operator of designer outlet centres, has promoted LUIGI BATTUELLO from centre manager of Italy's Serravalle designer outlet to regional director of southern Europe.

JON WALTON has been appointed as the head of commercialisation for DTZ's property management team. The role will at first service the retail portfolio and then extend into other areas within the DTZ business. He has been with DTZ for just under three years, working as national marketing manager within the national property management team.

JOHN GRAY, chairman of the Property Managers Association's shopping centre sub-committee, has joined SGP FACILITIES AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT to head up its service charge team.

Manchester-based retail property specialist TUSHINGHAM MOORE has appointed NICK ROUNDS as associate partner covering the Midlands region. He has over 25 years of retail experience including roles with Churston Heard and Lambert Smith Hampton. He also spent two years at EFM, part of Boultbee Land, running a number of shopping centres nationwide.

JOHN DAVISON has joined DRANSFIELD PROPERTIES' Marshall's Yard in Gainsborough as assistant centre manager. He will be working alongside the centre's exisiting manager Janet Linfoot. Davison was previously manager at the JJB Sports store at Marshall's Yard.

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FERGUS EGAN has been appointed portfolio manager of the retail and leisure property portfolio at universities superannuation scheme. He joins from Legal & General, where he was senior asset manager on the life fund, having worked on a variety of retail properties including the Performance Retail Partnership joint venture with Lend Lease and Goodman.

Manchester's TRIANGLE SHOPPING CENTRE has appointed SARAH DEWEY as operations manager. She previously worked for Virgin Active Health Clubs in a similar position.

MARK WIGENS has recently joined WARNER ESTATE as head of commercialisation for its retail business. His role will be to shape and implement a new commercialisation strategy at Warner Estate's nine shopping centres throughout the UK. Previously he was the commercialisation director at TfG, a Saatchi Group company, where he led and managed a commercialisation team serving PruPIM, Henderson Global Investors and the Cosgrave Property Group, among numerous others.

Manager of the month

Arnold Wilcox-Wood, one of the most experienced and respected businessmen in the retail world, is to take up the post of general manager at the Merseyway shopping centre in Stockport.

Arnold is a former winner of the SCEPTRE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. His career to date has taken him from manager with Arndale shopping centres, Manchester, working for P&O Properties, through to managing numerous shopping centres throughout the UK and, most recently, working as consultant to Solomon shopping centres in St Petersburg, Russia. He also managed to fit in a spell working in the shopping centre industry in Turkey and in Prague.

The Mancunian is absolutely delighted to be back in the north-west of England, where he began his career, and is looking forward to taking Merseyway, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2005, to even greater heights.

He says: "It's true I've worked in many different places both here and abroad, but I'm really excited about working in Stockport. I believe that Stockport and Merseyway can do great things together, and by working in partnership we can really raise the town's profile and ensure it's a great place to shop, work and have a great time."

In addition to his new role as general manager, Arnold acts as a justice of the peace and even finds time to chair the British Council of Shopping Centre's Association of Shopping Centre Managers.

Like Arnold, Merseyway itself has a strong pedegree, being one of the first shopping centres to be built in the UK.

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