Category: packaging
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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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Highly Decorated: Orla Kiely Home for Heroes
Whether you know the name, the un-missable, unmistakable signature leaf pattern of Orla Kiely runs rampantly through most people’s lives like a real life creeper casting its colours and shapes on everything from stationery to lamp shades, from linen to laptop cases. The pattern evokes in its simplicity the sunny retro days of seventies consumerism…
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Personally Speaking: Anthropology for the People
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, footwear, home, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, menswear, multi-category, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail strategy, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsBy name and now by nature, Anthropology is a retailer for the people. There may be more commercially obvious operators who adorn their assortment with monograms and a monotony of namesakes but Anthropology is carefully personalising its parchment, customising its cushions whilst maintaining its decidedly desirable approach to product design and display. See the image…
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Graphic Treatments: Whole Foods Complete Image
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, food & drink, in-store services, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingDynamic graphic communication which is both in brand but constantly relevant and ostentatiously spontaneous is not an easy balance to achieve yet Whole Foods succeeds with style and taste, coordinating permanent navigational signage with service messages, product information with health advice, seasonal event communication and dynamic product promotions without reverting to the stale stereotypical use…
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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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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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“Curated by”: In JL we Trust
‘Curated By’ is a new space in the nations most trusted retailer – John Lewis – which offers customers the chance to selectively shop key pieces from premium fashion brands. Handpicked, the first edit includes exclusives from Sacks, Pyrus, Stella Forest, Charli, Muubaa and Second Female as well as Avoca Anthology, By Zoe, Bensimon and…
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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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