Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Charity Super.Mkt, the ‘department store for second-hand style’ launched earlier this year by Maria Chenoweth and Wayne Hemingway, will open at Bluewater this week. The Charity Super.Mkt concept has proved hugely popular with shoppers thanks to its curated collections of second-hand fashion.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Founded amidst the opulent settings of Marrakech’s Dar el Bacha palace in 1910, this Moroccan coffee brand has recently made waves with its ambitious expansion into new territories. The latest chapter in Bacha Coffee’s saga unfolded with the announcement of its inaugural ventures into Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Litmus Retail Group has partnered with Myer on a physical showroom concept that will enable the department store to display big and bulky products, such as treadmills, e-scooters and stand-up desks, and track how consumers are engaging with them to inform future buying decisions.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Mango, one of Europe’s leading fashion groups, is accelerating its expansion in the United Kingdom with the opening of three new stores this autumn to bring the total to almost 50 by 2022, combining its physical presence in shopping centres with standalone stores and corners in department stores.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Westons are said to be seeking £4 billion for their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland, and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand. billion (AU$3.72

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 21, 2023

US-based apparel chain Old Navy is reportedly exploring a possible expansion to India. Featuring the brand’s NextGen store concept, the space was designed to redefine the Indian shopping experience. The department store will complement the mall’s current offering of young, exciting designer brands across multiple categories.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2023

These include Nike, which will debut its new Nike Unite concept store later this year, and UK luxury fashion retailer, FLANNELS , which recently opened its 45,000 sq ft department store – the first in the country. The addition of Bershka and ZARA follows several other signings at the centre over the last few months.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Japanese retailer Muji unveiled its largest flagship store in Southeast Asia, with the recent reopening of Muji Plaza Singapura in the heart of Singapore, following a transformative makeover. But it’s not just about size; Muji Plaza Singapura has introduced innovative concepts that redefine the shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In other instances, the ventures’ failures had more to do with retail store concepts that simply didn’t work in Australia, poor market research and an attitude that Aussie consumers will buy ‘what we want to sell’ rather than asking what they would want to buy.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Between that novel concept and the turbocharge that Covid-19 gave to e-commerce, the start-up has swiftly become a mid-sized force. We envisioned a label in which shoppers could ‘see’ what they were buying properly, rather than touring packets of folded linen in department stores.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2023

Luxury department store Lane Crawford was launched in 1850, and has stores across Hong Kong and mainland China. The luxury market invested with new brand and pop-up concepts, driving all merchandise in China. So that customer was extremely spoiled and we saw incredible growth in those years,” she said.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

Luxury retailers established hard shops around the atrium, making the ground floor a combination of luxury mall and department store aesthetics. In homage to Wyman, the store café is called Café Lance. Each department has its own design concept with a common element pulling it all together.

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Greater Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As retailers are borrowing inspiration from hospitality experiences to create impactful stores that foster connections with shoppers, the retail-hospitality design philosophy has delivered a new wave of remarkable experience-based retail design projects. Let’s look at some of the most inspiring store designs. Images: Studio Stof.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

Luxury retailers established hard shops around the atrium, making the ground floor a combination of luxury mall and department store aesthetics. In homage to Wyman, the store café is called Café Lance. Each department has its own design concept with a common element pulling it all together.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It allows us to develop additional capabilities in key areas such as brand building, digital development and operational excellence or gain from state-of-the-art infrastructural support for our international expansion. Around 2007, however, we started seeing more and more “niche” fragrance brands being launched and entering department stores.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The company’s latest business update for the Stock Exchange of Thailand states that The Chalong mall has 17,000sqm of net leasable area, and is anchored by an 8,000sqm Robinson department store. Central has now opened 28 of the popular lifestyle centre concepts in Thailand. And finally, there is the obligatory food court.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2022

They think, ‘Oh, I’ll just go to a department store.’ ’ Robin McGowan: We’ve always done an OK job of getting brand awareness, but there are still a lot of people who haven’t heard about us, or even the concept of getting an affordable, made-to-measure suit online.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

The essence of personalisation Picture a scenario, you’re in a department store. Marketers everywhere are talking about it. I will cover the what, when, where, and how of personalisation, without spiralling into the black hole of digital jargon, promise!

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major department store, tick. The compression and expansion of its various laneways and squares conjures intrigue and discovery. Store formats vary in size, shape and identity, whereby guidelines seem relaxed and autonomous, in turn creating a sense of individuality amongst its buildings and retailers. Cinema, tick.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 13, 2022

FLANNELS Dublin is set to be the next flagship in the brand’s roll-out of trailblazing flagship stores. Opening in the landmark former Clerys Department store on O’Connell Street, it will be the first to open outside of the UK – demonstrating a key expansion for the next-generation luxury retailer.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2021

ECI means the building contractor is engaged much earlier in the development of a new retail project, whether it’s a major new sub-regional asset, centre expansion, store refurbishment, precinct upgrade, a stand-alone store, or even a single shop fit out. ECI was the key to success at Neeta City in Sydney.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Evolution of Retail Formats The history of retail formats can be traced back to the late 1800s when single-product stores dominated the townscape. However, the emergence of department stores revolutionized the retail landscape by offering diverse products and brands under one roof.

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VMS

DECEMBER 1, 2022

New York quickly became the epicenter of burgeoning new retail concepts. Stylish patrons seeking the latest fashions from shirtwaists to wing collars, and the finest of fabrics, flocked to an impressive roster of newly founded department stores including The John Wanamaker Store (designed by Daniel H. Hearn & Son, B.

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