Category: health & beauty
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Judging begins for the VMRD Retail Design Awards 2022
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, food & drink, footwear, health & beauty, home, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, luxury, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store layout, store theatre, technology & electrical, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, windowsIt is that exciting time of year again, to begin judging the entrants for the 2022 VMRD Retail Design Awards. From experience as an awards presenter, I know that the ceremony itself is a great spectacle and a place of high excitement and emotion. These awards mean a lot in the retail industry in Asia…
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What are retail’s 6 ‘Astute Strategies‘
in accessories, analytics, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, fast fashion, food & drink, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, home, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, location strategy, luxury, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, pop-up stores, pre-loved, preorder, product suppliers, pureplay, re-sell, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, sales promotions & events, secondhand, shop of the future, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store operations, store operations audits, store operations compliance, store theatre, supply-chains, sustainability, technology & electrical, town centre planning, value retailing, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operationsCreating a balanced organisation, flexible process flows, and a culture for change will benefit you little, unless you channel these attributes correctly into the brightest opportunities. Every retailer will have different opportunities that will depend on the product and service sectors that they inhabit, the markets in which they operate, their level of ambition and…
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Lush Pastures New: More than Merely Cosmetic
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, health & beauty, impulse retailing, in-store services, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, sustainability, telling product stories, visual merchandising, windowsSimply as a concept Lush began its life as one of the most innovative and exciting brands ever conceived. In a world of copycats and unsubtle insurgents it’s easy to forget that the idea of tasty toiletries dressed up as fresh fayre, chalk-boards championing cosmetic concoctions and bath-bombs transforming every aquatic adventure all came first…
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Body Beautiful: Selfridges Studio of Serenity
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, health & beauty, in-store services, internationalisation, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, luxury, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsSelfridges opens its biggest ever department, Body Studio, encompassing everything that is exciting and inspirational about London’s leading department store. Never the laggard Selfridges is ahead of the trend as its manoeuvres gracefully to gain a fitness foot hold in the fastest growing area of fashion – Athleisure. The department brings together an intimate experience,…
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Introducing the new book ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, food & drink, health & beauty, high street planning, ladies fashion, location strategy, multi-category, omni-channel retailing, personalisation, pop-up stores, retail brand heritage, retail-regeneration, sales promotions & events, social savvy, space management, store experience, store operations, store theatre, telling product stories, town centre planning, visual merchandisingHow to be an essential retailer Every retailer must now be essential, supporting the emotional lifestyle and well-being of the customer, as well as simply supplying products.‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ explains how touchpoints have replaced channels, how linear supply chains will become circular, why assortments are increasingly virtual, how physical is turning to local,…
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Hema Global: New Blood in New Street
in accessories, assortment structure planning, customer experience, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, health & beauty, impulse retailing, internationalisation, jewellery, leisure & sport, location strategy, multi-category, packaging, retail, retail strategy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, value retailing, visual merchandisingFor a retailer with a long heritage Hema packs a powerful contemporary punch as it speeds into the newly refurbished New Street Station in Birmingham. On the fast track to becoming a global brand Hema now has 5 UK stores, with 3 of these in high traffic transport hubs including Stansted airport. In the same…
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Kiehl’s University: Skeletons Alive and Kicking
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, health & beauty, in-store services, internationalisation, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, store experience, store layout, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingSwimming against the trend tide of sterile store environments of purity and prepared perfection Kiehl’s comes out all glamour guns blazing in a dynamic and inspiring store concept in the pulsing heart of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Never a brand for understatement Kiehl’s has however largely adhered to the established etiquette of sterility with its personality…
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Deadly Seduction: Oiling the Sabon Wheels of Success
in customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, health & beauty, in-store services, internationalisation, luxury, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail strategy, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandisingBringing your product to life, particularly when its inspiration lays literally in the world’s deadest sea, is an essential for oiling the wheels of success of any toiletries retailer, and entering any Sabon store is certainly an assault on the senses. With truly international inspiration two Israeli brothers combined Aboriginal ingredients and processes with the…
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Larger than Life: Simply Be a Physical Presence
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer service, customer-engagement, fast fashion, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, ladies fashion, menswear, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, store layout, store operations, value retailing, visual merchandisingWhilst the most successful physical brands continue to maximise online and mobile opportunities a noteworthy entrant in the opposite direction has recently opened on Oxford Street in London, announcing its serious intent to compete across all channels. Simple Be’s proposition is not just as a highly successful catalogue and online apparel operator but also as…
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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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