Category: accessories
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Microsoft Moves: New Windows on the Retail World
in accessories, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, in-store services, internationalisation, new retail, omni-channel retailing, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail organisations, store experience, technology & electrical, telling product storiesThere are many rhymes and reasons why brands become retailers, and the buyout of Nokia by Microsoft and the rebranding of the phone hardware has given the software giant an interesting opportunity to develop a physical store presence. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop…
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Ale House Rocks: Hip-hopping impulse shopping
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, food & drink, health & beauty, home, impulse retailing, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, multi-category, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail management, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingFamous for its half-in half-out life-size plastic cows, catching by surprise the passer-by, herding them helplessly into the green pastures of impulse grazing, the power of Ale-Hop lays in its meticulously constructed category assortment. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop designs, visual displays &…
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Tipple Point: A Storming Tea Cup
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, food & drink, impulse retailing, in-store services, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingIn the trend soaked streets of Shoreditch an avant garde angle on the traditional cup of tea is putting on the proverbial and literal kettle in anticipation of your next visit. Where Whittards once was, T2 is now the fresh from the tea fields’ package, adding its own individual flavour, refined to the taste of…
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Reveal the Mystery: Swatch & Learn
in accessories, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, internationalisation, jewellery, luxury, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, store experience, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsThe price of competition may be a Swatch watch but the price of success is repaid many times in customer loyalty and social network buzz. Clever Swatch calculate the cost of a mystery watch giveaway in a sealed box for £25 with any regular purchase. No watch is worth less in the assortment, so the…
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Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Cath’s Cornucopia
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, fashion accessories, home, impulse retailing, internationalisation, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsAmongst the proud pillars of Piccadilly a little floral femininity has broken through the winter weather. Cath Kidston’s first flagship is a bright beacon of colour inviting the passer-by to explore a world of nostalgic designs, a celebration of classic kitsch, a veritable house of horticultural hype. Famous for its floral designs Cath Kidston largely…
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Gyroscopical; Chronological; Cosmonautical: Brilliant Breitling
in accessories, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, luxury, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, space planning, store experience, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingTime waits for no-one, and Breitling have wasted no time at all in propelling itself to the forefront of watch design and manufacturing par excellence. Every face tells a story and Breitling communicates every story with style, with integrity and with a precision that complements the design of its watches perfectly. The new store environment…
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Maxximum Potential: TK Putting on the Style
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, footwear, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, luxury, menswear, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store layout, value retailingOn the back of surging sales, TK Maxx plots its path to bargain brand domination with a central London flagship store in the heart of fashionista Covent Garden. The selected assortment tailors to the trendy and the cash-strapped coveters of current labels. New to this store is the Goldlabel departments where only the very best…
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Freestanding Fashion: Tesco oFF & Running
An established attraction within Tesco stores the familiar face of F+F now has a fascia, proud and prominent in the Earls Court flagship store. A mezzanine with meaning. Womenswear takes the stage with a friendly functional fit-out clearly segmented in formal casual and lingerie. The mezzanine situation provides a welcome firebreak from the frantic food…
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A Sonic Site: Sore Eyes is Music to Your Ears
in accessories, branding & visual communication, fashion accessories, impulse retailing, new retail, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, pureplay, retail, retail businesses, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, technology & electrical, telling product stories, website excellenceThe UrbanEars concept takes a small perfectly formed product and projects it into the lives of consumers in a fun, fashionable and environmentally sustainable way. The myriad of messages are presented in a beautifully simple and stylish way allowing the customer to select by lilac, lemon or whatever hue is particularly you. Limited editions combine…
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Sweet Sounds for UrbanEars: Colour in a World of White Noise
in accessories, branding & visual communication, fashion accessories, impulse retailing, internationalisation, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, retail, retail businesses, shop of the future, social savvy, store experience, technology & electrical, visual merchandisingA simple store speaking louder than words makes the action of listening a pleasure and an experience. UrbanEars is a concept in listening from Scandinavia, an ergonomic and aesthetic sound sensation for all the world to enjoy. The concept is based around colour , sound quality and the pleasure of wearing headphone in the office,…
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