MAPIC (''Le marché international professionnel de l’implantation commerciale et de la distribution'') is an international

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real estate show held in

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, each November. Organised by Reed MIDEM, and lasting for 3 days, the event consists of conference sessions, an exhibition area and networking events to help facilitate retail

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. Although held in France, participants come from several countries. MAPIC 2021 will take place from 30 Nov-2 Dec.

Conferences

The event offers conferences and keynote addresses aimed at retail professionals. The programme typically includes topics such as new retail concepts, multichannel strategies, integrating leisure and culture into the shopping experience, investment and expansion in mature and growing markets.

Networking at MAPIC

Participants have the option to take part in

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sessions, designed to facilitate new business partnerships. One of the formats offered, Speed Matching, is based on the concept of

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. During a 45-minute session, participants meet with 10 potential partners for 3 minutes each, giving them the time for an introduction and exchange of

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s. Other networking opportunities include the Opening

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and MAPIC

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The MAPIC Awards

Each year, developers submit their retail real estate projects for a chance to win a MAPIC Award in one of several categories. Three nominees are chosen in each category by a jury of industry professionals. During MAPIC, the jury, as well as MAPIC delegates vote to determine the winners. The awards are then presented during an awards ceremony. MAPIC Award was created in 1996 and initially was focused to target best in class retail concept. Since 1996 till 2007 there were nominations for retailers divided into six categories: Clothing & Fashion Accessories, Household & Electrical Goods, Leisure, Catering Outlet, Services and Health & Beauty and the first award’s nomination related to commercial real estate developers were launched in 2007.

2002 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Clothing & Fashion Accessories:

Foot Locker Foot Locker Retail, Inc. is an American sportswear and footwear retailer, with its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and operating in 28 countries. Although established in 1974, and founded as a separate company in 1988, Foot ...

* Best Household & Electrical Goods:

Media Markt Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. With chain of stores Saturn it constitutes Media-Saturn Holding, owned by the retail company Ceconomy, which was demerged from M ...

* Best Leisure:

Village Cinemas Village Cinemas is an Australian-based multinational film exhibition brand that mainly shows blockbuster, mainstream, children and family films and some arthouse, foreign language and documentary films. Since 2003, its Australian sites became ...

, Anděl City, Praha * Best Catering Outlet:

Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is the world's largest coffeehouse chain. As of November 2021, the company had 33,833 stores in 80 ...

* Best Services: Jean Louis David by

Regis Corporation Regis Corporation is an American operator of hair salons. As of August 2021, it has 5,563 franchised and 276 company-owned salons. Its headquarters are in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. The primary trade names Regis salons operates under are Smart ...

* Best Health & Beauty: L’Occitane

2003 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Clothing & Fashion Accessories:

Reserved Reserved is a Polish apparel retailer headquartered in Gdańsk, Pomerania, Poland. It was founded in 1999 and remains the largest company of the LPP group, which has more than 1,700 retail stores located in over 20 countries and also owns such b ...

* Best Household & Electrical Goods:

Bo Concept BoConcept is a Danish retail furniture chain with 337 stores in 65 countries around the world. The first BoConcept Brand Store opened in Paris in 1993, but from 2006 onwards, all furniture is sold through franchisees. BoConcept specializes in c ...

* Best Leisure Retailing:

Fnac Fnac () is a large French retail chain selling cultural and electronic products, founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954. Its head office is in ''Le Flavia'' in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris. It is an abbreviation of Fédération Nationale d ...

* Best Catering Outlet: Australian Homemade * Best Services: Bel & Blanc (laundries) * Best Health & Beauty: Lush

2004 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Clothing & Fashion Accessories:

Massimo Dutti Massimo Dutti () is a Spanish fast fashion clothing retailer specializing in cashmere and wool products, established in 1985 and owned by Spanish multinational company Inditex. Overview Despite the Italian name, "Massimo Dutti" is not a fashio ...

* Best Household & Electrical Goods: Media Saturn * Best Leisure Retailing:

Lego Lego ( , ; stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of variously colored interlockin ...

* Best Catering Outlet:

Paul Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chr ...

* Best Services: The Phone House * Best Health & Beauty: Yves Roches

2005 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Clothing & Fashion Accessories:

New Yorker New Yorker or ''variant'' primarily refers to: * A resident of the State of New York ** Demographics of New York (state) * A resident of New York City ** List of people from New York City * ''The New Yorker'', a magazine founded in 1925 * '' The ...

* Best Household & Electrical Goods:

Bose Bose may refer to: * Bose (crater), a lunar crater * ''Bose'' (film), a 2004 Indian Tamil film starring Srikanth and Sneha * Bose (surname), a surname (and list of people with the name) * Bose, Italy, a ''frazioni'' in Magnano, Province of Biella ...

* Best Leisure Retailing:

EB Games EB Games (formerly known as Electronics Boutique and EB World) is an American computer and video games retailer. First established as an American company in 1977 by James Kim with a single electronics-focused location in the King of Prussia mall ...

* Best Catering Outlet:

Tchibo Tchibo is a German chain of coffee retailers and cafés known for its range of non-coffee products that change weekly. The latter includes: clothing, furniture, household items, electronics and electrical appliances. In Germany, Tchibo's slogan i ...

* Best Services: Franck Provost * Best Health & Beauty: Douglas

2006 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Clothing & Fashion Accessories:

Jack & Jones Bestseller A/S is a privately held family-owned clothing and accessories company founded in Denmark in 1975. The company provides affordable fashion for women, men and children. They market their products in 70 markets across most of Europe, th ...

* Best Household & Electrical Goods:

The White Company ''The White Company'' is a historical adventure by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edwar ...

* Best Leisure Retailing: Smyk * Best Catering Outlet:

Burger King Burger King (BK) is an American-based multinational chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based restaurant c ...

* Best Services: Fortis-Credit4me * Best Health & Beauty:

The Body Shop The Body Shop International Limited, trading as The Body Shop, is a British cosmetics, skin care and perfume company. Founded in 1976 by Anita Roddick, the company currently has a range of 1,000 products sold in about 3,000 stores, divid ...

2007 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Clothing & Fashion Accessories:

GEOX Geox is an Italian brand of shoe and clothing manufactured with waterproof/breathable fabrics. Corporate history The company was founded in 1995 by Mario Polegato. The brand name, Geox, was created from a mixture between the Greek word “g ...

* Best Household & Electrical Goods: Media Saturn * Best Leisure Retailing:

Build-a-Bear Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. is an American retailer headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri that sells teddy bears and other stuffed animals and characters. Customers go through an interactive process in which the stuffed animal of their choice ...

workshop * Best Catering Outlet:

Illy Illycaffè S.p.A. (branded and stylised as illy) is an Italian coffee company specializing in espresso, headquartered in Trieste. Illy markets its coffee globally in silver and red pressurized, oxygen-free cans; operates a network of cafes on s ...

* Best Services: The Phone House * Best Health & Beauty: Yves Roches New categories launched in 2007: * Best Shopping center: Fórum Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal * Developer of the year: Multi Development Portugal

2008 MAPIC Awards winners

This year the composition and names of nominations were changed and the official name of the 2008 Mapic Award was MAPIC EG Retail Awards. The Award was organized for the first time between Mapic and Estates Gazette (UK). * Retail success story: Koton, Turkey * Developer of the year: ORTA Gayrimenkul Yatirim Hizmetleri ve Turizm A.S, Turkey (Developer of Istinye Park) * Shopping Center of the year:

Cabot Circus Cabot Circus is a covered shopping centre in Bristol, England. It is adjacent to Broadmead, a shopping district in Bristol city centre. The Cabot Circus development area contains shops, offices, a cinema, hotel and 250 apartments. It covers a to ...

, Bristol, UK submitted by Hammerson and Land Securities * Consultant of the year:

Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield plc is a global commercial real estate services firm. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois. Cushman & Wakefield is among the world's largest commercial real estate services firms, with revenu ...

, UK * Best Eco-initiative: Grand Arcade shopping centre, Wigan, UK, submitted by Modus Properties * Urban Regeneration Initiative: Department for Social Development,

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingd ...

City Centre Regeneration Directorate, UK * Outstanding Achievement of the year: Bob Bringer, Vice president for Retail,

Apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus '' Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ances ...

Inc., USA * Retail Personality of the year: David Leino, Senior Vice President,

Abercrombie & Fitch Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) is an American lifestyle store, lifestyle retailer that focuses on casual wear. Its headquarters are in New Albany, Ohio. The company operates three other offshoot brands: Abercrombie Kids, Hollister Co., and Gilly Hick ...

, US

2009 MAPIC Awards winners

* Retail Success Story:

Primark Primark Stores Limited (; trading as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland) is an Irish multinational fast fashion retailer with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. It has stores across Europe and in the United States. The Penneys brand is not us ...

, UK * Best Concept: Kidzania, Mexico * Developer of the year: Multi Corporation bv, Netherlands * Consultant of the year: CB Richard Ellis, UK * Best Sustainable Retail Development of the year: Ernst-August-Galerie, Hannover, Germany, submitted by ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG * Urban Regeneration Initiative:

Liverpool One Liverpool ONE is a shopping, residential, and leisure complex in Liverpool, England. The project involved the redevelopment of 42 acres (170,000 m2) of land in the city centre. It is a retail-led development anchored by the department store ...

, Liverpool, UK submitted by Grosvenor

2010 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best International Retailer: Jack Wolfskin, Germany * Best New Retail Concept:

, Denmark * Best Shopping Centre: Odysseum, Montpellier, France * Best Improved City Attractiveness: Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium As France was 2010 year's MAPIC Country of Honour, Jean-Paul Freret, Director of Expansion and Real Estate, Vivarte Group has been chosen as the 2010 'Personality of the Year'.

2011 MAPIC Awards winners

*Best New Retail Concept: Asics Amsterdam Flagship, The Netherlands, submitted by Wests Design Consultants *Best Retail Expansion:

Desigual Desigual (); Catalan: ); meaning "unequal, uneven") is a Spanish fashion label. The company was founded by Thomas Meyer in 1984, and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. It has a presence in 109 countries, with different distribution channels ...

, Spain *Best Retailer in City Centre:

, USA *Best Retail Development: Eurovea, Bratislava, Slovakia, submitted by Ballymore Eurovea, a.s. *Best Refurbished Retail Development:

Galeria Echo Galeria Echo is a shopping centre in Kielce in Southern Poland. The centre was developed by the Echo Investment. Cinema The centre includes a Helios In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Helios (; grc, , , Sun; Home ...

, Kielce, Poland, submitted by Echo Investment SA

2012 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Fashion and Footwear Retail Concept: Adidas Neo, Germany * Best Food and Beverage Retail Concept:

EXKI EXKi () is an international chain of fast-casual "grab-and-go" restaurants. The Belgian owners have stated that the name is a play on the French word " exquis", meaning "exquisite" or "delightful". , EXKi operates 70 restaurants in Belgium, ...

, Belgium * Best High Street Retail real estate development: Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica, USA submitted by The Jerde Partnership * Best Multichannel Strategy:

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold ...

, France * Best Retail and Leisure Development:

Morocco Mall Morocco Mall ( ar, مول المغرب) is the largest shopping mall in Africa with 190 000m² of floor space in Casablanca, Morocco. Morocco Mall, which opened on December 1, 2011, was designed by Architect Davide Padoa of Design International, ...

, Casablanca, Morocco, submitted by Design International * Best Retail Global Expansion:

Debenhams Debenhams plc was a British department store chain operating in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1778 as a single store in London and grew to 178 locations across those countries, also owning the Danish ...

, UK * Most Innovative Shopping Center: The Star Vista, Singapore, submitted by CapitaMalls Asia As Russia was 2012 year's MAPIC Country of Honour, Samvel Sarkisovitch Karapetyan, chairman and founder of the Russian Tashir Group of companies, has been chosen as the 2012 'Personality of the Year'.

2013 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Fashion and Footwear Retail Concept:

JD Sports JD Sports Fashion plc, more commonly known as JD Sports or JD, is a British sports-fashion retail company based in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Pentlan ...

Fashion Plc, UK * Best Food and Beverage Retail Concept: La Place, The Netherlands * Best Outlet Center: Roppenheim The Style Outlets, Roppenheim, France, submitted by NEINVER France and MAB Development * Best Retail Real Estate Development in a city center:

Trinity Leeds Trinity Leeds is a shopping and leisure centre in the city centre of Leeds, England, named after the adjacent 18th-century Holy Trinity Church. Developed by Land Securities and designed by Chapman Taylor, it opened on 21 March 2013, with over ...

, Leeds, United Kingdom, submitted by Land Securities * Best omnichannel strategy:

, UK * Best retail and leisure development: Puerto Venezia, Zaragoza, Spain * Best Retail Global Expansion:

, UK * Most Innovative Shopping Center: Emporia, Malmö, Sweden, submitted by Steen & Ström Sverige AB * Special Jury Award: St. Lazare Paris, France, submitted by Klépierre In honour of project ‘Retail Rising Stars’ of 2013 – China, Brazil, India and Russia – the jury awarded four developers: Wanda (China), Sonae Sierra (Brazil), DLF Mall of India (India) and Crocus Group (Russia)

2014 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Fashion and Footwear Retail Concept: Uniqlo, Japan * Best Food and Beverage Retail Concept:

Vapiano Vapiano SE is a German restaurant franchise company headquartered in Cologne. The chain's restaurants offer Italian food adhering to the fast-casual principle. Vapiano was established in 2002 in Hamburg.

, Germany * Best New Retail Concept: Causses, France * Best Retail Global Expansion: Kiko Milano, Italy * Best Outlet Center: Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Rosemont, IL, USA, submitted by RTKL Associates Inc. * Best Refurbished Center: Armada development project, Ankara, Turkey, submitted by A Tasarim Mimarlik – Ali Osman Ozturk * Best Urban Center: Les Terrasses du Port, Marseille, France, submitted by Hammerson * Special Jury Award Retailer: New Look, UK * Special Jury Award Project: Beaugrenelle, Paris, France, submitted by Apsys * MAPIC 20th Anniversary Special Tribute to China:

Wanda Group Wanda Group (), or the Dalian Wanda Group (), is a Chinese multinational conglomerate founded in Dalian, Liaoning and headquartered in Beijing. It is a private property developer and owner of Wanda Cinemas and the Hoyts Group. With inves ...

* MAPIC 20th Anniversary Special Tribute: Frédéric Laloum, General Manager, Leasing, Altarea-Cogedim, France

2015 MAPIC Awards winners

*Best Fashion and Footwear Retail Concept:

, Ireland *Best Food and Beverage Retail Concept:

Five Guys Five Guys Enterprises LLC (doing business as both Five Guys Burgers and Fries, and simply Five Guys) is an American fast food restaurant chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and french fries, and headquartered in Lorton, Virginia, part of F ...

, United States *Best New Retail Design Concept:

Tanya Heath Paris Tanya may refer to: * Tanya (Judaism),an early work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. * Tanya (name), a given name and list of people with the name * Tanya or Lara Saint Paul (born 1946) * List of Mortal Kombat characters#T ...

, France *Best Retail Global Expansion:

, Germany *Best Retail Digital Strategy:

ECE Future Labs Ece () is a Turkish word meaning queen and may refer to: * Umay, also known as Ece, the Turkic earth goddess Given names * Ece Ayhan Çağlar (1931–2002), Turkish poet * Ece Ege (born 1963), Turkish fashion designer * Ece Erken (born 1978), Tur ...

, Germany *Best Pop-up Shop:

Magnum Pleasure ''Magnum'' is a Latin word meaning " great". Magnum may also refer to: Businesses and organizations * Magnum Research, a firearms maker * Magnum Semiconductor, a spin-off of Cirrus Logic * Magnum Photos, a photojournalist cooperative * Magnum ...

Store – Covent Garden, London, UK *Best New Shopping Center: Milaneo, Stuttgart, Germany *Best Redeveloped Shopping Center: Alegro Setúbal, Lisbon, Portugal *Best Outlet Center:

McArthurGlen Designer Outlets McArthurGlen Group is a public company, which develops and manages designer outlet malls. Background McArthurGlen originated as a private company in North America, part of the Vancouver based McLean Group. It opened and ran factory outlet ...

Vancouver Airport, Vancouver, Canada

2017 MAPIC Awards winners

* RETAILER OF THE YEAR Nike USA * BEST RETAIL GLOBAL EXPANSION Flying Tiger Copenhagen Denmark * BEST NEW RETAIL CONCEPT Rapha Racing Ltd UK * BEST RETAIL STORE DESIGN Adidas New York, USA * BEST LEISURE CONCEPT IN A RETAIL SPACE iFLY WORLD France * BEST O2O STRATEGY Digital Mall Germany * BEST POP UP SHOP Imad’s Syrian Kitchen London, UK * BEST F&B CONCEPT Nespresso Switzerland * BEST NEW SHOPPING CENTRE Victoria Gate Leeds, UK Architect: ACME Developer: Hammerson Other: Sir Robert MacAlpine * BEST REDEVELOPED SHOPPING CENTRE Chadstone Shopping Centre Melbourne, Australia * BEST OUTLET CENTRE Tsawwassen Mills Tsawwassen First Nation, Canada * BEST RETAIL URBAN PROJECT Hoog Catharijne Utrecht, The Netherlands * BEST FUTURA SHOPPING CENTRE Prado Marseille, France * CUSTOMER SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD Rosario Lozano Bretone Position: Sales Employee Company: MediaMarkt Saturn Retail Group Spain * INDUSTRY ACHIEVEMENT Klaus Striebich Managing Director Leasing, ECE Projektmanagement Germany * COMPANY EXCELLENCE PARTNER WANDA GROUP China

2018 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Retail Global Expansion: Uniqlo, Japan * Best New Retail Concept: Marc O’Polo Strandcasino, Germany * Best Retail Store Design: Franprix Darwin, Paris, France * Best Leisure Concept in a Retail Space: Open House, Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand * Best Pop-up Shop: Samsung Galaxy Studio, USA, submitted by: PMK*BNC * Best Outlet Center: The Village, Villefontaine, France, architect: Gianni Ranaulo / GR Design, developer: Compagnie de Phalsbourg * Best Retail Urban Project: Grand Hôtel Dieu, Lyon, France, architect: RL&A Didier Repellin / AIA Architectes Albert Constantin, developer: Crédit Agricole Assurances, Caisse Régionale Crédit Agricole Mutuel Centre-Est, Effiage * Best Futura Shopping Center: American Dream, East Rutherford, USA, architect: Gensler, developer: Triple Five WorldWide Group * Best New Shopping Center: Suzhou Center Mall, Suzhou, China, architect: Benoy, developer: CapitaLand and Suzhou Hengtai Holding * Best Redeveloped Shopping Center:

Westfield Century City Westfield Century City (formerly known as the Century Square Shopping Center) is a two-level, 1.3 million-square-foot outdoor shopping mall in the Century City commercial district in Los Angeles, California. A property of the Westfield Corporatio ...

, Los Angeles, USA, architect: URW Design, Gensler, developer: Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield * Best Shopping Center Innovation: Transaction Connect, France * Best Retailer of the Year:

Groupe Galeries Lafayette The Galeries Lafayette () is an upmarket French department store chain, the biggest in Europe. Its flagship store is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris but it now operates in a number of other locations in France and ot ...

, France * Best Industry Partner: AEON Mall, Japan * Personality of the Year: Christophe Cuvillier, Group Chief Executive Officer

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE (previously Unibail-Rodamco SE) is a French commercial real estate company headquartered in Paris, France. Its history originates with the formation of two separate shopping centre operators, Unibail (founded in Fran ...

2019 MAPIC Awards winners

* Best Retail Global Expansion: Niu Flagship Italia, Italy * Retailer of the Year: Tommy Hilfiger, Netherlands * Best Food & Beverages Retail Concept: Boxpark Wembley, UK * Best Retail Concept: Nous épiceries anti-gaspi, France * Best Store Design: Microsoft, London, UK, submitted by Gensler * Best Leisure Concept: Arkose, France * Best Retail Innovation: Wishibam For Business, France * Best Shopping Center: ICONSIAM, Bangkok, Thailand, architect: Benoy and Urban Architect, developer: Siam Piwa * Best Outlet Center: Torino Outlet Village, Turin, Italy, architect: Claudio Silvestrin, developer: Arcus Real Estate * Best Retail City Center Regeneration: City Plaza, Wuppertal, Germany, architect: Chapman Taylor, developer: Signature Capital * Best Futura Shopping Center: Val Saint Lambert Free Time Park, Seraing, Belgium, architect: Christian Sauvage (retail), Minale Design Strategy (Design), Chapman Taylor (leisure), Altiplan (offices), developer: Immobilière du Val Saint Lambert * Special Jury Award: Jewel Changi Airport, architect: Safdie Architects, developer: Jewel Changi Airport Trustee Pte Ltd, a joint venture by Changi Airport Group & CapitaLand * Achievement of the Year: Chantal Zimmer, Déléguée Générale, Fédération Française de la Franchise, France

Country of Honour

Every year, MAPIC names one country as the "Country of Honour", about which there is a series of conference sessions and events. In 2013, the format was slightly changed, and four countries were recognised as "Retail Rising Stars": Brazil, China, India and Russia.

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