Central Pattana

Central Pattana
เซ็นทรัลพัฒนา

Type	Public
Traded as	SET: CPN
Industry	Property development
Founded	June 17, 1980 [1]
Founder	Central Group
Headquarters	The Offices @ Central World, 31st Fl, 999/9, Pathum Wan, Pathum Wan, Bangkok, Thailand
Number of locations	23 shopping centers 5 office buildings 2 hotels 2 residential projects
Area served	Thailand
Key people	Preecha Ekkunagul, CEO
Products	Shopping malls
Revenue	23,668 million baht[2]^:13
Profit	7,083 million baht
Total assets	89,039 million baht
Total equity	41,748 million baht
Owner	Central Holdings Chirathivat Family
Number of employees	3,561[2]^:91
Parent	Central Group[3]
Website	www.cpn.co.th

Central Pattana (Thai: เซ็นทรัลพัฒนา, IPA: [sentʰran pʰáttʰánaː]) (CPN) is Thailand's largest retail property development and management company. It is a business unit of the Central Group. Central Pattana was founded as Central Plaza Co., Ltd. on 17 June 1980 with registered capital of 300 million baht by Central Group, the Techapaiboon family, Saha Union Group, and minor shareholders.^[4] The company was registered as a public limited company in 1994 and was listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) on 1 March 1995.^[1] Mr Preecha Ekkunagul is president and CEO.^[5]:248-249

Properties

CPN (2016) manages 26 shopping centers, seven office buildings, two hotels, and two residential projects.^[6]

Shopping malls

CPN operates three shopping malls concepts:^[7]

• CentralWorld : International shopping center with over 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft) of net leasable space. There is currently one branch of CentralWorld.^[8]

• CentralPlaza : A typical mall of this size has around 100,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft) of net leasable area. There are currently 22 malls of this concept, the first being CentralPlaza Ladprao, opened in 1982.^[9]

• CentralFestival : Approximately 50,000 square metres (540,000 sq ft) of net leasable area. There are currently five malls of this type. The first mall of this type opened in Pattaya.^[10]

Future projects

CPN plans to develop six new shopping centers in the next one to two years.^[11]

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  CentralPlaza Ladprao, CPN's first large scale shopping mall

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  CentralWorld after second renovation (2012)

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  CentralPlaza Bangna

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  CentralPlaza Grand Rama 9.

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  Old façade, CentralPlaza Pinklao (1995-2010)

References

1. Stock Exchange of Thailand (23 August 2011). "Company Summary". Archived from the original on 21 November 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
2. "CPN Annual Report 2014" (PDF). CPN Property Development & Investment. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
3. Stock Exchange of Thailand. "CPN - Major Shareholders". Stock Exchange of Thailand. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
4. "History". CPN. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
5. CPN Annual Report 2015 (PDF). Bangkok: CPN. 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
6. "Our Properties". CPN. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
7. "Shopping Center". CPN. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
8. "centralworld". CPN. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
9. "centralplaza". CPN. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
10. "centralfestival". CPN. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
11. "New Project". CPN. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

External links

• Central Pattana (21 March 2012). Annual Report 2011 (PDF). Retrieved 30 March 2012.
• Central Pattana (5 April 2012). Form 56-1 2011 (PDF) (in Thai). Retrieved 23 May 2012.
• Central Pattana (23 May 2012). 1Q12 Performance Review (PDF). Retrieved 24 May 2012.