Nordic Council of Shopping Centers (NCSC) is an organization representing the Shopping Center industry in four Nordic countries. Founded in 1985, NCSC today has over 1 000 members from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden, including all major companies in the business. The list of members include a wide variety of interest groups, ranging from real estate companies, bankers, investors, center managers, retailers, service industries, trade associations and city planners, to government and municipal authorities.

NCSC works for a continuous development of the Nordic shopping center business as an integrated part of society. Professionalism gives the business high status. Nordic Council of Shopping Centers brings together all the different interest groups involved in shopping centers and creates a neutral ground for professional discussions. Through promoting an increased cooperation between the investors, landlords, tenants, public authorities and politicians, NCSC furthers the establishing and developing of both attractive and well functioning shopping centers in all member countries.

Conferences, study tours and education
Every year NCSC holds two major Nordic conferences on different topics relevant to the shopping center industry. On top of that, each member country has national meetings on topics of more regional character. There is also a yearly study tour for inspiration and updating on what is happening in our business abroad. Every second year NCSC offers an Advanced Education in Shopping Center Management for the Nordic market.

Benchmarking and information
An important channel for exchange of experience, NCSC also brings about personal contacts between Nordic and international colleagues and counterparts. With the mother-organization ICSC, The International Council of Shopping Centers, NCSC works as an intermediary to the worldwide network spanning over some 60.000 members in various National Councils throughout the world. Furthermore, NCSC is the publisher of the Nordic trade-magazine, CenterNytt, with a periodicity of four issues a year.

Language
The common language for NCSC is not English as one may believe. The Scandinavian countries have a long history of inter trade and communication. The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages are all of Germanic origin and fairly alike. They understand one anothers tongue. Finnish however, is of Ugrian origin, but 5,5% of the Finnish people have Swedish as their mother tongue and many more have taken Swedish at school. Hence Swedish is the common denominator.

For more information, please contact NCSC Secretary General Agneta Uhrstedt
Telephone: +46 8 611 11 42, fax: +46 8 611 12 99, e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it