Founded in 1996, Apsys developed in Poland the following year with the creation of Apsys Polska. New teams joined the company to manage its first major project in the country : Korona, in Wroclaw. This was followed, in 1998, by the Janki project, in Warsaw. Korona, the first shopping centre for which all phases were developed by Apsys, was inaugurated in 1999. With 40 employees, the company embarked on a key project for its development in Poland : renovating a nineteenth century industrial wasteland site in Lodz city-centre, Poland’s second largest city : Manufaktura (inaugurated in May 2006).
In 2001, Casino asked Apsys to manage 12 shopping centres thereby making it the leader in shopping centre management in Poland (over 1,000 leases managed).
In France, an increasing number of ambitious projects were begun :
▪ restructuring Halles d’Angers and the shopping centre at the Porte de Chatillon,
▪ designing l’Heure Tranquille, in Tours,
▪ completely renovating the Beaugrenelle, shopping centre, in the 15th arrondissement in Paris, etc.
This latter prestige operation enabled Apsys to reinforce its links with Foncière Euris and Paris-Orléans (Groupe D. de Rothschild) and to create a partnership with Gecina. The Group now employed 140 people.
In 2003, city authorities increasingly began to voice a need to restructure their suburbs and city entry points. Apsys created Aparc, a company specialised in developing suburban shopping and leisure centres.
At the same time, 11 Polish shopping centres were sold to General Electric-Heitman, including Janki end Korona. Cette société américaine réaffirme sa confiance en Apsys en lui confiant un nouveau mandat de gestion de 5 ans pour l’ensemble des centres.
The American company expressed its confidence in Apsys by renewing our management mandate for the shopping centres for a further 5 years. Simultaneously, to adapt its legal structure to its business diversification, a holding company was created, Groupe Apsys,: this company includes Apsys Polska, Aparc and Apsys France.
In 2004 and 2005, Apsys won three new projects :
▪ Ruban Bleu, in Saint-Nazaire,
▪ La Rue des Halles, in Orléans
▪ La Caserne, in Grenoble.
2005 saw the opening in Angers of Fleur d’Eau already nominated for awards at several international competitions, principally for the quality of its private sector/city partnership.
In 2006, the Group now employs 300 people, 80 of whom work in France. This year we are opening an additional 150,000m² with Manufaktura !
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