Category: retail brand heritage
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Listening Booths: Playing a Popular Tune for the Local Crowd
Minimising assortment for the same or increased sales is the deal that soothes many a headache for an over-stretched buying team. More for less is a wise choice, but a risky and brave one for the ill-informed. Grocery stores exhibit the ultimate and most topical examples of the tailored assortment as every brand clamours…
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From Knightsbridge to Airbridge: Flying the Harrods Flag
Something has changed in the retail offer at Gatwick airport, South Terminal, as part of the enormous investment in the airport. Centre stage of the new development is Harrods. In the extensive store there are plenty of brands attracting the attention from Longchamps to Swarovski to DKNY but it’s the clever commercialisation of the…
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Gyroscopical; Chronological; Cosmonautical: Brilliant Breitling
Time 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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Fossil Fuelled: Timed for Evolution
Time stands still for no retailer, and Fossil takes it upon itself to look to the future with an evolutionary new store concept which draws on the strength of its heritage whilst looking decisively to the future. The focal wall is a picture perfect example of this, setting a showcase HD video screen against…
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Sports Brands: Go Direct to Oxford Street
Sweet music for sports brand fans in the site of the old HMV on Oxford Street as Sports Direct opens its new flagship store. The discount sports brand retailer has big stores already but this three floor testament to sporting testosterone celebrates every activity from fitness and training, through to trecking and fishing with…
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