Category: location strategy
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“Shopportunities” – The Role of Retail in Rejuvenating Town Centres
“Shopportunities” – The Role of Retail in Rejuvenating Town Centres Tim Radley will be speaking at Dublin’s “The Future of Towns” Dun Laoghaire: Thursday April 16th. A big question often requires us to go back to basics. So before we attempt to reverse the tides of change and inject new life into the retail…
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Larger than Life: Simply Be a Physical Presence
The complex kaleidoscope of omnichannel continues to see the cross-fertilisation of both the online channel and physical high streets and shopping malls with insurgents from the other side of the digital wall. Whilst the most successful physical brands continue to maximise online and mobile opportunities a noteworthy entrant in the opposite direction has recently…
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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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A Warm Welcome Home: White Stuff at Bluewater
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 average,…
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Backing Black: GAP betting on Boxpark
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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Vintage Vittles: Albion Cutting the Mustard in Classic Cooking
Stepping back in time ironically, but most commonly, costs more than staying in the present. The price we pay for authentic experiences, retro bistro and vintage vittles’ sets the tills ringing but the hearts racing for those who remember the taciturn times when basic cuisine was well, basically cuisine. The Albion café come restaurant…
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Automotivation: Rockar’s Super Highway Hyundai Boutique
In a sector well overdue for its service, a new arrival in the market is taking off the handbrake on retail innovation and hurtling headlong into the comfortably parked parade of traditional car show-rooms. In partnership with Hyundai, no slouch off the starting blocks itself, the Rockar dealership has introduced its first omni-channel experience…
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Tower Power: Pinterest Gallery of retail in the Tower of London
Subsidised shadows are now just history, as the Tower of London emerges from the dark ages, leveraging the power of the past to propel its proposition into a bright new prosperous future. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop designs, visual displays & customer…
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Foyles Literary Statement: Where Actions Speak Louder than Words
On a street synonymous with literature a new chapter has been written in the tumultuous tale of the traditional bookstore. Foyles may have physically moved only metres, but as a concept it has made a journey that brings it into a new century and a completely different world. No more so than in the…
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Tiger Earns Its Stripes: The Cat In Search of the Cream of London
Natural survivors evolve and expand beyond their traditional habitats widening their historical distribution. Tiger, with its impulse offer and low prices, is thriving and turning up not only in secondary locations and low-rent backwaters but on some of the most expensive streets in London. After a trial in Tottenham Court Road, the Danish destination…
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