Category: packaging
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Sweet Sounds for UrbanEars: Colour in a World of White Noise
in accessories, branding & visual communication, fashion accessories, impulse retailing, internationalisation, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, retail, retail businesses, shop of the future, social savvy, store experience, technology & electrical, visual merchandisingA simple store speaking louder than words makes the action of listening a pleasure and an experience. UrbanEars is a concept in listening from Scandinavia, an ergonomic and aesthetic sound sensation for all the world to enjoy. The concept is based around colour , sound quality and the pleasure of wearing headphone in the office,…
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Cosmetic Changes: Original Icon Just Too Good to Eat
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, ethical retailing, health & beauty, impulse retailing, in-store services, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, store experience, store theatre, visual merchandisingBeauty may be skin deep but originality knows no bounds. If you think you know Lush then take another look. Firstly take a novel idea, then create beautiful and sensual soaps, toiletries and cosmetic combinations, mould them into the most exquisite and unusual shapes and colours, and present them in the most scrumptious delicatessen imaginable…
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Smart Cookies: Every Angle Covered in Chocolat
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, food & drink, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, social savvy, space planning, store experience, store layout, telling product stories, visual merchandising“Putting Chocolate on Everyone’s Lips” physically and metaphorically is the motivation behind the marvel that is Hotel Chocolat. No bean is left unturned in its quest to make it the substance of dreams, the choice of kings and the downfall of us all. Clever packaging and powerful propositions segment the assortment into manageable chunks of…
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Wicked Company: An Invitation to Indulge
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, home, luxury, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingNo longer Whiter than White. Invitations abound and temptations await around every corner as The White Company urges its customers to wallow in the beauty of its assortment and experience first hand the softness, the quality, the fineness and the sheer irresistibility of its products. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase…
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iNTIMATE Relationships: a C-change for Apple
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, in-store services, internationalisation, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, shop of the future, social savvy, space management, space planning, store layout, store theatre, technology & electrical, telling product stories, visual merchandising, windowsA new hero, in a new era, for Apple, heralded into the temples of temptation with a spectrum of colour and metallic glow that is the choice of plenty for the advocates of the new C-phone. The stores are not just a testament to the skill in the introduction of the new but very much…
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Elvis & Kresse: Fighting Fashion Fire with Fire
Elvis & Kresse: Fighting Fashion Fire with Fire So much of the exciting retail scene of today is coming from people with a real passion. The passion is not necessarily for retail initially but comes as a natural evolution of a wider passion for a philosophy, for values and for life. Elvis & Kresse is…
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John Lewis: What’s in a logo?
So, John Lewis has dramatically unveiled to the world the delivery of its new strategy. A variety of channels, most noticeably a glorious new TV advert, bring to life the retailer’s desire to create an unparalleled customer experience based on its services and the historical strength of its people – or partners. As part…
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Dyson: Designs on Disruption a Retail Lesson for Us All
For those people who have been in the retail business for more than a few years, or have been working in a traditional retail business for what might seem more than a few years, it must appear as though disruption in retail is only for others! However, many so-called disruptors are simply self-evangelists of…
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Pop-Up for Tea: Tasteful Treats from a world of Wedgwood
A mere meander from the horticultural highlights of the Chelsea flower show is a marriage made in heritage heaven between Wedgwood and John Lewis. Just a few steps into the foyer of Peter Jones in Sloane Square is a land of serene ceramics and tasteful elegance, a month-long pop-up experience that turns tasteful into…
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Packing the Hackett Punch: Attending to Vending Detail
Value is not a reality of price alone but the perception of benefit over price. Perception in itself can be the clear communication of reality or the addition of emotional attributes that ultimately constitute brand value. For a retailer like Hackett in a competitive swell of quality menswear brands using every available tool to…
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