Category: vm operations
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Hema Global: New Blood in New Street
For a retailer with a long heritage Hema packs a powerful contemporary punch as it speeds into the newly refurbished New Street Station in Birmingham. On the fast track to becoming a global brand Hema now has 5 UK stores, with 3 of these in high traffic transport hubs including Stansted airport. In the…
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Retail Integration: store layout with the customer experience
Planning your store layout for maximum profit illustrates yet again the importance of integration within a retail business, the bringing together of the commercial and the emotional, the marriage of the beauty and the beast. On the one hand the store needs to be functional and based on sound commercial strategy and decision making whilst…
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“The Wonder of Workshops!”
For maximum benefit ensure the retail workshops you receive are… 1. Personalised through pre-visits and discussions 2. Relevant through individual research by experts 3. Interactive between presenter and audience and within the audience itself 4. Concluded with feedback, recommendations and priority action plans Many of us will remember the “wonder of workshops” in…
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Tim Radley “Visual Merchandising; a Return to Selling” No.1
“Visual Merchandising – A Return to Selling!” part 1 An article by Tim Radley in VM&RD Magazine India I was fortunate enough this year to be invited to speak at the In-Store Asia event in Mumbai. What I found was energy, enthusiasm and real excitement about the future of Indian retail and this great industry…
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Retail integration: Product stories with buying & merchandising
It’s not uncommon for retail buyers to get so familiar with their product that they find it very difficult to view it from a customers’ perspective. Even the best assortment will not achieve its commercial potential if it is not displayed and communicated in a way that presents a clear, powerful and irresistible proposition to…
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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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“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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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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Visual Merchandising Operations: The dangers of “spread-sheet retailing”
Many a good and potentially commercial idea and initiative has never made it from the boardroom to the operational teams, never mind the stores themselves. The complexity of the modern store portfolio has added to this problem, as stores develop a mixture of owned and franchise stores, international coverage and increased store grading and clustering…
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