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Honesta launches with an irreverent take on home furnishings

Design Wanted

When helping to design Honesta’s first collection, he worked with Honesta founder David Gelmini to build on Rawood ’s expertise handcrafting wooden furniture inside its carpentry shop of professionals who specialise in different stages of the production process. “

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Biryani instead of meatballs: Here’s Ikea’s recipe for success in India

Inside Retail

We’re still in the nascent stages in terms of home furnishing category,” Kavitha Rao, India’s chief commercial officer told Inside Retail. Ikea’s online platform offers shopping in seven cities. As a Scandinavian retailer, we had a large open storage concept. There’s space for a lot more players,” she added.

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IKEA trials “Home Experience of Tomorrow” concept store

Retail Focus

IKEA Xuhui will be testing an innovative retail concept centred around enabling people to live a better and healthier life within the limits of the planet. The IKEA Shanghai Xuhui is a culmination of IKEA’s deep retail expertise and understanding of how customers now want to shop in our stores and live in their own homes.

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Analysis: A Japanese retailer with Lofty overseas prospects

Inside Retail

Japanese retail is not only good on its own patch – you will find some of the most attractive stores in the world here – but when Japanese concepts have travelled to other countries, they have generally gone over well. Loft, a dubiously classified ‘home furnishingsconcept is an idea that should have travelled but hasn’t.

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Daiso, Muji, Moshi Moshi? Why this Japanese-inspired chain is taking off

Inside Retail

Following in the tradition of Japanese retailers like Loft, Daiso and Muji that bring chic to everyday items and are consummate visual merchandisers, Thailand’s Moshi Moshi has gone into full expansion mode with a concept that uses the same template. Some stores also sell pet accessories.

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Why Ikea, Nike, Li Ning and Atelier100 are going hyper-local

Inside Retail

During the course of the past two years, the Covid pandemic has altered our shopping behaviours in small yet discernable ways as our mobility had been limited. That prompted a surge in cross-border shopping but has also increased loyalty to and patronage of local retailers.

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Meet Big C: The Thai hypermarket chain thriving in small cities

Inside Retail

As we celebrate the emergence of more glamorous urban shopping centres with their cast of global retailers, spare a thought for the thousands of small cities across developing Asia where there isn’t quite enough spending power to support a full-sized regional shopping centre, store directory glowing with marquee names.