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The Crown Estate welcomes four global flagship stores to London’s West End

Retail Focus

Spanish women’s fashion brand Bimba Y Lola has just opened a new 4,000 sq ft store at 211-213 Regent Street, showcasing carefully curated collections, a brand showroom and a programme of events, making it the brand’s most active flagship globally. The lettings span more than 10,000 sq ft of new retail space.

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Gentle Monster opens HAUS SHANGHAI

Retail Focus

Defying the traditional layout of commercial space that prioritizes efficiency and function, Gentle Monster exemplifies its new perspective on Future Retail. HAUS SHANGHAI’s 3rd floor presents a large exhibition space featuring Gentle Monster’s curated media art exhibitions and collaboration pop-ups.

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The Art and Business of Christmas Windows in Retail

Retail Focus

These meticulously curated displays are more than just aesthetics, they convey a diverse range of messages that encompass product offerings, discounts, overall ambiance, and brand identity. In retail, where the importance of first impressions cannot be understated, store windows become the brand frontline ambassadors.

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Exclusive: Woolworths’ head of delivery talks the rise of marketplaces

Inside Retail

IR: How do you curate meaningful experiences for customers through the marketplace? AO : From a Woolworth’s perspective, there’s a lot of time that is spent listening to customers. Touching on the more industry-led perspective, there is a huge balance to what makes up a great experience.

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What The RealReal’s store closures say about the future of luxury resale

Inside Retail

A balancing act “The dichotomy for The RealReal is that theirs is a sector with higher growth projections versus traditional retail as sustainable consumption behaviours and the circular economy begin to really take off,” Iacono added.

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R.M. Williams crafts quality and service from people and tech

Inside Retail

The carefully curated multi-level retail portal spans 460sqm, which flows onto a mezzanine located at the back of the store, where customers can enjoy their very own ‘Cinderella moment,’ whether it be for a first pair of R.M. And the changes continue. “We’ll It’s not an individual process.

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Be like water: How to stay relevant amid the rapid pace of change

Inside Retail

And faced with so many kinds of flux – economic, geopolitical, environmental, local and global – how does your organisation keep pace while also maintaining balance, perspective and impetus across these often-conflicting dimensions? And how do you keep customer experience front and centre as your number one priority at the same time?

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