Category: location strategy
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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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“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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