Retail Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Performance footwear and apparel brand, HOKA® launched in 2009 and has been disrupting the running industry ever since. The stores interior also features interactive displays that tap into the brand’s ethos of joyful movement and commitment to movement and motion for all.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Meindert Wolfraad launched Lekker Bikes in 2009 while living in Australia as a backpacker, and over the years, he grew the brand into a successful global cycling business. Meindert Wolfraad: I started Lekker Bikes back in 2009, in Sydney. In 2018, he stepped down as CEO to take on a more strategic role.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2023

Back in 2009, industrial designer Meindert Wolfraad identified a gap in the market for practical, comfortable and stylish commuter bikes that would enable Sydney-siders to get around, similar to what he saw growing up in the Netherlands. Meindert Wolfraad: Lekker Bikes started back in 2009, in Sydney. Watch this space in 2024!

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

Our old store evolved over the 10 years we were there, whereas this time, we have been able to design [the space] intentionally, and have a really nice display for all of the smaller products. IR: Tell me more about how the rise of online shopping during Covid helped you reimagine how the space could be used. ST: We started in 2009.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Born of a collaboration in 2009 between Marc Chaya and perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, Maison Francis Kurkdjian has become a major player in the luxe fragrance industry, and is sold across more than 700 locations worldwide. This year, we will enter China, with a shop at Nanjing-deji and online with Tmall.

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Design Wanted

JUNE 23, 2021

We talked to Eberhard Schrempf, the managing director of Creative Industries Styria about the designers’ responsibility in shaping our future, and how the Austrian creative community is evolving towards that purpose. DesignWanted talks to Creative Industries Styria’s managing director, Eberhard Schrempf. Who is Eberhard Schrempf?

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VMS

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, well before high-end shops and boutiques graced the iconic retail corridors of Fifth Avenue, Champs-Élysées and Via Monte Napoleone, consumerism and desire became a driving force in Western culture. cities,” says Steve Kaufman, former Editor-in-Chief of VMSD from 1998 until 2009.

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