Category: Pinterest Gallery
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Petit Pli: One giant Pinterest gallery
in assortment structure planning, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, footwear, in-store services, internationalisation, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, shop of the future, store experience, store theatre, supply-chains, sustainability, telling product stories, visual merchandisingFounded in 2017 by aeronautical engineer, Ryan Mario Yasin, Petit Pli invents and applies groundbreaking material technologies that solve problems for individuals, businesses and the planet across the textiles value chain. The entrepreneurs have been inspired by space since the beginning, and everything they create has to pass the Mars Test. “If you’re planning on…
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Discover a ‘Five-Star Christmas: “Meaning in the Retail Madness”
in accessories, analytics, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, brave-words, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, food & drink, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, home, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, location strategy, luxury, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, product suppliers, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, sales promotions & events, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store operations audits, store operations compliance, store theatre, store-videos, supply-chains, sustainability, technology & electrical, telling product stories, town centre planning, value retailing, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operations, VM Selling Toolkit, VManalytics, website excellence, windows“An excellent read *****” “Valuable reference for anyone in retail *****” “This book is more relevant now than ever! *****” ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ explains how touchpoints have replaced channels, how linear supply chains will become circular, why assortments are increasingly virtual, how physical is turning to local, and why products and shops are…
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Toms “One-for-One” Love: Fashionable Philanthropy
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, footwear, internationalisation, omni-channel retailing, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, social savvy, sustainability, visual merchandisingInvention may be born from necessity but inspiration and originality comes from the addition of a commercial heart. In the rarefied atmosphere of true originality there are few names to pollute the pure air of brands such as Toms selling products to improve the world with every purchase. Its new stores are not only presenting…
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Aaah Bicester! Tasty Temptations in “Tesco Town”
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, food & drink, impulse retailing, in-store services, multi-category, omni-channel retailing, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store layout, store operations, value retailing, visual merchandisingIt’s fair to say that Tesco has always been at the vanguard of UK supermarket design from its famous 3D animated penguins and oversized banana signage to the opening of the UKs first true hypermarket concept, experimentation with category management with a focus on customer journey and missions to its collaboration on convenience and petrol…
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Changing Habitat: Survival of the Stylish
in assortment structure planning, brave-words, customer experience, home, in-store services, omni-channel retailing, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, visual merchandisingSince 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 in…
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Lush Pastures New: More than Merely Cosmetic
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, health & beauty, impulse retailing, in-store services, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, sustainability, telling product stories, visual merchandising, windowsSimply as a concept Lush began its life as one of the most innovative and exciting brands ever conceived. In a world of copycats and unsubtle insurgents it’s easy to forget that the idea of tasty toiletries dressed up as fresh fayre, chalk-boards championing cosmetic concoctions and bath-bombs transforming every aquatic adventure all came first…
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Apple Digital Garden: A Natural Evolution
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, in-store services, internationalisation, leisure & sport, location strategy, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, shop of the future, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, technology & electrical, telling product stories, visual merchandising, windowsIt is a fair claim to say that Apple revolutionised retail just as it had with entertainment, work and communications channels before. This visionary business realised that the value of theatre and physical interaction was at the core of the retail experience; and that immediate sales were only a secondary objective for directly owned stores…
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Centrifugal Celebration: Dyson’s Hair-Raising Experience
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, internationalisation, location strategy, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, shop of the future, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, technology & electrical, telling product stories, visual merchandising, windowsTo 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 every…
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Fashion, Fusion, Follies: Selfridges Studio Experience
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, fashion accessories, internationalisation, ladies fashion, luxury, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail management, retail strategy, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandisingBuilding excitement and new physical experiences is transforming the third floor of Selfridges London into a must-see destination as it unveils a series of lifestyle studios to entice & enthral its adrenaline driven customers. The Design studio is the latest area to be unveiled and at over 1000sqm presents itself a home for innovative and…
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Fossilisation: A Personal Investment
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, impulse retailing, internationalisation, jewellery, luxury, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, town centre planning, visual merchandisingFar from remaining in the history of time, Fossil’s latest incarnation inhabits the modern world of customisation and personalisation, with new products, new services and a whole new store with a clear focus on the “his” & “hers.” An investment in individual identity. Most noticeable in the latest concept is the introduction of the “Personalisation…
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