C&W strengthens retail team in Germany

Cushman & Wakefield has hired two top retail agents, Marc Alfken and Stefan Weiss, to strengthen its retail team across Germany.

Alfken, formerly head of retail leasing at Jones Lang LaSalle in Germany, has joined C&W as a partner, head of retail in Germany and member of the C&W German board. Weiss, previously a national director at JLL, is joining C&W as a partner and head of retail leasing Germany.

Alfken has 16 years of experience in the retail real estate sector and was most recently national director and head of retail leasing for JLL’s retail teams in nine offices in Germany. From 1999 until the takeover of Kemper’s in 2008, he was a director and shareholder building up Kemper’s Frankfurt office and further expanding Kemper’s letting activities nationally.

Weiss is a national director with JLL, who began his career in Kemper's Frankfurt office in 1999. In 2008, he moved to the Stuttgart office where he strengthened the retail team. From 2011 he led retail letting in Hamburg as well as providing coordination for the entry of international retailers into the German market.