Category: visual merchandising
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How should Football Clubs Maximise Christmas Retail Sales?
An article featuring Tim Radley of VM-Unleashed! in Football Club Business Magazine “Make a Football Experience to Remember!” Christmas is an enormous opportunity for all retailers but in particular for those brands with a strong loyalty and emotional connection with their customers and where gift and impulse sales have the potential to go over the proverbial moon.…
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Retail Integration: Integrating Space Planning with Assortment Planning
Whether your retail involvement comes from a field based visual perspective or from a head office commercial perspective stores can often disappoint, both in terms of the visual perception and the financial reality. Whilst there will be opportunities for improvement in both store and head office processes, it is often the integration of the two…
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Primark Weighs in State Side: Entry of a Fashion Heavyweight
In a statement of international intent Primark fired its first style salvo into the soft belly of the US value fashion market with the opening of its 8,000 sqm Boston flagship. Truly a shopping space full of superlatives, the four floors are home to 530 mannequins, 84 fitting rooms, 73 cash registers and a…
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Sonic Selfridges: Big Noise in the World of Music
There are many magical corners of the Selfridges supersized store to admire and marvel at, to lose yourself in an exploration of a wondrous assortment from traditional classics to outrageous innovation. In the basement bowels of the lower ground floor through the avenue of travel accessories, luggage and literature is a gem of a…
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“Making the most of what Retailers’ have!” The 3 P’s – product, places & people.
After another turbulent week on the world’s stock markets and a refocus on the uncertain economic horizons ahead, purse strings are inevitably drawn ever more tightly around the already tied arms of retail bosses and managers. Restricted investment in the new, leaves the only other alternative – “to make the most of what retailers…
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Watch & Wonder: Selfridges Serves up an Apple Experience
Time is money and when it comes to Apple that money and revenue can be sizable, so speed to market and proximity to the pockets of its patrons is an essential element to retrieving its return on investment. In a collaboration of near colossal proportions Apple has taken chronological control of all of Selfridges’…
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“Getting the quality from quantities!” how to benefit from retail benchmarking and analytics
Almost everything is measurable and comparable in retail stores but the benefits only come through understanding the implications and the opportunities that lay within the many depths of the powerpoint charts and excel graphs. Firstly, benchmarking should not be blind but focused on areas of commercial opportunity and the improvement of sales, profit and customer…
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Kiehl’s University: Skeletons Alive and Kicking
Swimming against the trend tide of sterile store environments of purity and prepared perfection Kiehl’s comes out all glamour guns blazing in a dynamic and inspiring store concept in the pulsing heart of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Never a brand for understatement Kiehl’s has however largely adhered to the established etiquette of sterility with its…
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VM&RD: “What’s the Future of Visual Merchandising?” Part 4 “The Role of Technology in VMOperations”
An article by Tim Radley in India’s VM&RD Magazine Extracted from the article on “What is the Future for Visual Merchandising?” a first collaboration with VM&SD Magazine, India’s only magazine to focus on all aspects of retail design and visual merchandising in the context of branded shopping environment. Part 4 “The Role of Technology in…
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VM&RD: “What’s The Future of Visual Merchandising?” Part 3 “Education or Compliance?”
An article by Tim Radley in India’s VM&RD Magazine Extracted from the article on “What is the Future for Visual Merchandising?” a first collaboration with VM&SD Magazine, India’s only magazine to focus on all aspects of retail design and visual merchandising in the context of branded shopping environment. “What is the future for visual merchandising? Part 3…
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