E-Rapha-lite Movement: The Art of Cyber-Cycling

The true omnichannel customer experience embraces and evolves every touchpoint. It makes the customer dream and aspire, reassures their concerns, educates their knowledge and supports them before, during and after every purchase, from their first purchase. Rapha does all of that and more.

 

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Rapha is the yellow jersey of cycling branding, king of the multi-channel mountains and the sprint king of content management and customer engagement. In the peloton of professional competitors, every corner is covered, every breakaway anticipated as Rapha builds an enviable position as every cyclist’s aspirational accomplice.

The website communicates a genuine passion for cycling from the sponsorship of world famous teams to the evolution and development of events and races for everyone from the enthusiastic amateur, to the aspiring professional. Blogs, videos, interviews and competitions are all harnessed as the brand illustrates its journey on the road to designing and building some of the most innovative equipment on the market and allows their customers to rub shoulders and saddles with the giants of the sport.

With a team of tens of thousands, cyber-cycling becomes a commercial reality, in the trusted hands of Rapha.

 

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A Sonic Site for Sore Eyes is Music to Your Urbanears

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The myriad of messages are presented in a beautifully simple and stylish way allowing the customer to select by lilac, lemon or whatever hue is particularly you.

 

Limited editions combine function and fashion, with the superbly subtly coloured Pumpkin capturing amber audio ambiance ideal for your autumn activities.

Environmental credentials are encapsulated by Platten, where every re-constructed headpiece comes complete with coordinates for your own 5sqkilometres of protected Costa Rican forest packed with rare butterflies, beautiful bugs and special spiders.

On every level UrbanEars is a brand to get your head around.

 

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Every hero has a story!
If you have products that haven’t got a story, have you got a product at all?

 

VM-Unleashed monitors, benchmarks and celebrates best practice to provide the most relevant and expert analysis & conclusions.

History in Black & White: John Lewis Unfolds with Every Footstep

It can’t have escaped many customers that this year marks the John Lewis 150th Anniversary.

 

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In its customary courteous yet engaging way it has communicated effectively through customised bags, exclusive collaborations and a multitude of store events and promotions.

Centre stage literally, stand its “stand-out” anniversary windows, a magnificent understatement in glorious black & white, the backdrop to its colourful stories that span the decades.

A history book unfolds with every step from the dawn of “Ready-to-wear” clothing, the invention & evolution of electrical appliances, through the humble beginning of home furnishing drawing to a million millennium curtain closings. And so into the technological age the narrative unfolds further, dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s on IT, the internet and e-commerce.

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Omni-channel to all things and all people, many lines read in black and white ensure a bottom one permanently positioned in the black.

Hello Beautiful: Selfridges Showcases its Inner Beauty

With a now customary late Spring in its Step, Selfridges strides relentlessly onwards in its role as retail event destination in London.

 

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In a sequence of mega shows in a traditionally calm calendar month the premium department store has re-created everything from Carnival Brazil to Las Vegas Ostensicity and the celebrated BodyCraze voyerism that has been enshrined into the folk-lore of London’s lifestyle. Hello Beautiful brings to the fore the sizeable assortment of beauty brands that tread its hallowed boards, adding sparkle and magic in a month long celebration of outer and inner beauty.

A parade of pure inspiration, Selfridge windows cover every angle in beauty dust from hair extensions to food preparations, body art to mind science in its quest to unearth everyone’s beauty weak spot. A basement exclusive houses The Beauty Project where invited brands explore the future of looking good, whilst in the wonder room, marvel at the Fragrance lab where everyone is invited to explore their sense of smell, from evocative childhood memories to distinctive personal perfumes.

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Selfridges, looking good and feeling beautiful, with the help of a few fabulous friends, and the continued involvement and adoration of the populace of London.

Creative Souls of Fashion@ ASOS’s Fashion Finders

The mother of online fashion becomes a cradle for the daughters of today’s trends and looks.

 

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In the ASOS Fashion Finder what was editorial and schedules has become responsive and dynamic in what is becoming the most informative and engaging relationship between any retailer and its customers.

Revolutionising and re-mixing the magazine formula the retailer sets the broad calendar of fashion seasonality, events and trends mapping out the expansive landscape in readiness for its readers and buyers to populate it with ideas, creations favourites and inspirations.

The role and relationship between ASOS and its advocates is symbiotic and sophisticated as the contributors change hats between buyers and sellers, between creators and admirers and between passive browsers to dynamic contributors. ASOS gives the best contributors the exposure and opportunity to develop through several embryonic stages from Style Rookies to Rising Stars and beyond.

ASOS keeps a firm hold on commercially strategic content, but down to the second-by-second live fashion feed, this is a startling tribute and testament to the creativity of the consumer.

 

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VM-unleashed works with retail businesses to create inbound retail marketing calendars combining off-line and online inspiration and opportunities.

Adi-Dazzler: Walking the Road to World Cup Victory

Germany’s World Cup in every sense. The national team won the trophy, whilst the country’s famous sportswear brand Adidas, swept the manufacturers board with both finalists and the winners of the golden boot and the golden ball.

 

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The clean sweep was reward for a brand that has a proud history of making specialist footwear for its very special sportsmen & sportswomen.  Its landmarks are best told through its products and a visit to your local Adidas store may well yield a unique representation, a calendar of champions who spoke with their actions and not with their words.

The role of Adidas honour includes erstwhile pioneers of sporting achievement from Jesse Owens to Dick Fosbury, from Mohammad Ali to Bob Beamon, and a couple of nods of acknowledgement to the worlds of ice skating and hiking from the 1930s that belonged to a certain Mr Dassler. Adi Dassler, pioneer of modern sports footwear, transformed the humble trade of cobbling into a specialist art-form combining technology and beauty.

One man’s many steps on the mountains of Germany, went along way to creating the huge strides that have led to sports manufacturing’s world domination.

 

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Have you got a humble past to share with your customers.
VM-unleashed helps retail clients to communicate their added-value through balanced In-bound Retail Marketing Calendar

 

Brand Enhanced: Lefties Labelling with Love

There may be devil in the detail but the rewards will definitely come well before heaven.

 

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Value retailing continues to expand its expertise and grow competence in areas traditionally well outside its remit. Lefties leads the Iberian pack with expert enhancements that press all the added-value buttons, seams, adornments, tickets and labels.

Key to its new found capabilities Lefties has recognised and analysed the add-value hierarchy that makes it’s customers weak at the knees and falling over backwards to buy its bargain lines. In essence Lefties wastes no time, effort and investment in details that simply don’t matter in the value stakes, but knows from experience what ticks the ROI boxes.

Product labels are the current show stoppers adding a selection of sub-brand identities from the urban to the sophisticated, from the New England outdoors to the Old England indoors.

No more Lefties labels for forward thinking fashionistas, but a world of inspirations, carefully labelled with love.

 

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VM-unleashed has worked with a variety of retailers identifying added-value drivers across their assortments, ensuring that investment in product is matched by return…