Category: location strategy
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Home Cooking: IKEA’s Eating Evolution
It is not many yellow and blue moons ago that the food proposition at IKEA revolved around the manifestation of meatballs, supported stoically by sausages in rolls and competitively priced ice-cream cones with a choice of 3 syrups. Whilst these destination delights are fully preserved for both loyal patrons and new generations to discover,…
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Town Centre Retail Regeneration: The Complexity of Delivering Simple Principles
The simple truth of a successful and thriving retail destination is that you need the right assortment of shops and you need each one to be as good as it possibly can be. It doesn’t take the proverbial brain surgeon but it does take a meeting of commercial minds, and the work of many…
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Changing Habitat: Survival of the Stylish
Since 1964 Habitat has been adorning the houses and apartments of design-minded Europeans consistently stylish in an ever changing world of taste whilst weathering its own personal storms as it passed from its visionary founder Sir Terence Conran through several corporate reincarnations until settling recently in the Sainsbury’s stable. And so to Nine Elms…
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Centrifugal Celebration: Dyson’s Hair-Raising Experience
To call the new Dyson experience on Oxford Street a museum would be to relegate its content to the realms on history whereas this celebration of centrifugal forces is a testament to the extraordinary inventions of the future. This world-renowned company has of course cut its technological teeth on sucking seamlessly and extraordinarily efficiently…
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Sevillisation: Terminal Transformations & New Millennium Markets
Urban regeneration can sometimes be unemotional terminology for some of the most exciting enterprises across retail and leisure. Never more the case in the variety of schemes bringing vigour, life and energy to the revitalised heart of the Andalucian capital. In response to the ever-changing commercial and industrial landscape Seville is now home to centres…
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Hema Global: New Blood in New Street
For 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…
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Argos Accelerated: The Digital Dilemma of an Invisible Assortment
Better late than never Argos, the seasoned survivor of the catalogue age, continues to catapult its perfect proposition for the omni-channel world from its pre-historic paper origins into the efficiencies of a digital dynamo The latest Argos incarnation discards not only the traditional catalogues encapsulated in plastic, its pens & pencils, its paper order…
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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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“Shopportunities” – More than Retail Rejuvenation
“Shopportunities” – More than Retail in Rejuvenating Towns Tim Radley speaking at Dublin’s “The Future of Irish Towns” Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. With the competition for shopper footfall becoming so intense between shopping destinations from small and medium towns to out-of-town retail parks and regional shopping centres the fact is that even a well-balanced…
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“Shopportunities” – What makes a town’s retail good?
“Shopportunities” – What makes a town’s retail good Tim Radley speaking at Dublin’s “The Future of Irish Towns” Dun Laoghaire, Ireland: Thursday April 16th. One thing is for sure. It is not just the number of retail outlets that makes a town an excellent destination for retail or not. When you begin to…
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