Author: Tim
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Thank You India: A Refreshing Retail Tonic
Travel broadens the mind but also helps to focus it on what is most important and what can often be forgotten or neglected on our journey through the particularly frenzied and changing landscape of retail. I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to speak at the In-Store Asia event in Mumbai. What I found…
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The White Company Sitting Comfortably: Pinterest Board
Never was there such a natural manoeuvre than the one that has seen The White Company ease itself to the forefront of intimate, everyday comfort wear. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop designs, visual displays & customer experiences. Classic retail spaces with…
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Understated & Effortless: The White Company Eases into Comfortable Commercialism
Never was there such a natural manoeuvre than the one that has seen The White Company ease itself to the forefront of intimate, everyday comfort wear. The worlds of sleep, home relaxation and selected socialising has created a quiet demand for soft, sensual and comfortable clothing that crosses the divide between personal and public…
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Connect & Collect: John Lewis Airport Ambassador
The rebuilt terminal 2 at Heathrow airport has many benefits beyond the bright new environment, faster check-in, streamlined security processes and state of the art facilities. New and refreshed formats abound in both food and retail, and amongst the dazzling displays and illuminated logos one brand shines brightly for the first time in the airport…
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Paddington’s Curiosity Shop at Selfridges: Pinterest board
Best sellers come in all shapes and sizes from Cuban boots to Peruvian bears. Selfridges always captures the popular crowd-pleases, presenting them with aplomb, enjoyment and emotional experience. A retailer always with a large slice of sticky trickery tucked under its considerable commercial hat. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational…
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Monty’s Dancing Den: John Lewis Pinterest Board
You would have had to have been, appropriately enough, buried head first in the snows of Antarctica not to have noticed that the John Lewis Christmas icon is a penguin. To be accurate he is an Adelie penguin and his name is Monty. He has been the star of the retailer’s Christmas advertising campaign and…
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Atlantic Migration: American Eagle Pinterest
Whether American Eagle has found its natural habitat, or becomes just another vagrant visitor to our shores blown off course by the winds of international optimism remains to be seen, but its addition to the retail regulars adds another touch of international interest to the vibrant UK clothing market. See the image board: Click…
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A Christmas Curiosity: Paddington & The Great Selfridges Shop
Capturing the moment as always Selfridges securely jumps on the Paddington band wagon, with a dedicated “Curiosity Shop” featuring all things duffly, marmaladey and beary as it creates a compelling proposition for London tourists from as far as deepest Peru. Paddington is the winter blockbuster film, based on the children’s books of a bear…
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White Stuff Welcome Home: Visit the Pinterest Gallery
White Stuff, the purveyor of distinctive quality fashion has found a home. Its new concept store is modelled on a 2-storey Edwardian house complete with majestic flowing staircase, authentic wooden floor tiles, grand open fireplaces with festive stockings, and more ornaments and implements than you would usually expect in even the most, not so…
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Backing Black: GAP and Boxpark Pinterest Board
The trendy transient shopping centre of Shoreditch is many things to many retailers. Boxpark has been home to new brand launches, curious collaborations, assortment edits, entries into the UK market and a physical presence for marketing campaigns and promotional activities. What can’t be denied is the sizeable amount of serious cool kudos that a…
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