The festivities started the night before the official opening. We welcomed approx. 750 VIPs (tenants, business partners, politicians, friends, analysts, bankers and investors) at our opening reception.

Among the guests were some of Deutsche EuroShop's private investors: We've looked into our share register and invited our ten biggest shareholders from Dresden to the evening event. Nearly all followed our invitation, which was a great pleasure for us - and obviously for them as well. Thanks for joining us in Dresden!

On 31 March 2011 at 8:00 a.m. Dresden’s First Mayor Dirk Hilbert and Center Manager Thorsten Kemp opened the extension building of the Altmarkt-Galerie with the symbolic cutting of the red ribbon.

The Altmarkt-Galerie is one of our best performing shopping centers. Approximately 100,000 visitors came on the first day to see the around 100 new shops on around 18,000 m² of additional sales area - 70% more than before. For more details click here.

Deutsche EuroShop's CEO Claus-Matthias Böge held a short speech (German) and thanked all partners for their support: