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CIFF Guangzhou 2024: A record-breaking edition and a major boost to international furniture trade

Design Middleeast

This success rewarded the strategy of CIFF, an ever-evolving exhibition event with a key role in the development of the global furniture industry, promoting design and innovation, boosting consumption, and fostering international furniture trade.

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Opinion: Don’t make your returns problem an experience problem

Inside Retail

The shape this takes will depend on the retailer’s target segment, product offering and broader business strategy. But the common factor in successful approaches to returns is their connectedness to the broader business strategy and customer experience curation that the retailer is pursuing.

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Sleep.8 ‘Awakens’ the Kings Road with debut central London store launch

Retail Focus

The store launch of sleep technology and home furnishings brand Sleep.8, 8, complemented with interior pop-ups Libby Blakey Designs and Mews Furnishings highlights our responsive shops on demand leasing strategy.

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

Inside Retail

Perhaps more of a recurring concept rather than an entirely new trend, the hyper-local concept is modelled on mom-and-pop boutique stores, factoring in the careful curation of merchandise and shaping the retail experience based on the store’s surrounding vicinity.

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