Shoprite exits Chichiri Mall, Icon promises new partner

Africa-Press – Malawi. Icon Prop­er­ties plc, owner of Chichiri Shop­ping Centre, has announced the exit of one of its key ten­ants, Shop­rite, at its Chichiri Shop­ping Mall. Shop­rite closed its oper­a­tions at the mall on Sunday, which marks the con­clu­sion of a remark­able 24-year retail part­ner­ship at one of Malawi’s most iconic and his­toric shop­ping des­tin­a­tions.

Shop­rite opened at Chichiri in 2001, becom­ing one of the centre’s first and longest-serving ten­ants. Icon Prop­er­ties Chief Exec­ut­ive Officer Wash­ing­ton Chimuzu says in a state­ment that as Chichiri Shop­ping Centre cel­eb­rates 25 years of exist­ence this year, Shop­rite remains an integ­ral part of its story.

“This moment reflects the nat­ural evol­u­tion of the retail land­scape, but it also allows us to cel­eb­rate a part­ner­ship that stood the test of time. Shop­rite has been more than a ten­ant; they were a pil­lar in the growth story of Chichiri Shop­ping Centre and the shop­ping exper­i­ence in Malawi,” Chimuzu says. He says plans are under­way to wel­come a new anchor ten­ant into the space pre­vi­ously occu­pied by Shop­rite.

He says Icon Prop­er­ties remains com­mit­ted to strength­en­ing the centre’s ten­ant mix, enhan­cing cus­tomer exper­i­ence and main­tain­ing its pos­i­tion as one of Malawi’s most vibrant and trus­ted retail des­tin­a­tions. The mall is host to high level inter­na­tional brands such as Game Stores, KFC and key local brands such as Kips, key banks, eat­ery and cloth­ing stores.

Icon Prop­er­ties con­tin­ued to improve the mall’s infra­struc­ture by adding the KFC Drive-Thru, the con­struc­tion of the police unit and, most recently, the install­a­tion of an auto­mated park­ing sys­tem.

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