Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
Fashion label General Pants is set to expand to 65 stores across Australia and New Zealand as part of its growth strategy to focus on Gen Z and millennial consumers. General Plants said it will accelerate its store opening plan together with store refurbishments in Queensland, WA and Victoria in the next few months. In the past 12 months, the brand has opened eight new outlets, three of which are located in New Zealand.
Dezeen
JUNE 6, 2021
Bookshelves made from perforated aluminium and quartz stone double as partition walls in this maze-like Shanghai bookstore by local architecture studio Wutopia Lab. The 452-square-metre bookstore, which opened last month, is located at the base of a recently completed brick-red office block called Cifi Xintiandi (which translates as "The Roof") by Ateliers Jean Nouvel.
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Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
After a tumultuous year, the much anticipated Afterpay Australian Fashion Week (AAFW) hit Sydney last week, marking the return of live shows once again around the world. Here, several industry experts share their insights and highlights of the week, from the moving Indigenous showcases and inclusion of people with disabilities to the launch of see-now-buy-now shows and the hottest fashion trends to come.
Design Wanted
JUNE 6, 2021
The italian designer created a structural totem out of building materials to spread the story of the forgotten t’Karregat building in Eindhoven. Francesco Pace is an Italian designer who graduated in Contextual Design at Design Academy of Eindhoven. In 2017, he founded Tellurico, a multidisciplinary studio based in Amsterdam that specializes in installations and spatial design, “… investigating alternative solutions through the study of folklore, together with the relationship between craf
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Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
Retail profitability can be critically impacted through stock loss with inferior or outdated protection systems. Retailers face continual challenges with increasingly sophisticated shoplifters causing in-store ‘shrinkage’. Methods of theft are savvier with vast amounts of online information on how to defeat security tags. Ready access to tools such as illicit pocket-sized tag detachers are plaguing the industry, and old- style tags can be opened in seconds without a sound or disturbance to alert
Dezeen
JUNE 6, 2021
Green onyx lines the floors and walls of this fashion boutique in Rome by creative duo Giada Forte and Robert Vattilana. The Forte Forte store is located on Via Borgognona, a street in the heart of the Campo Marzio – the 4th rione, or district, of Rome – that was once full of artists. The boutique was designed by the brand 's co-founder, Giada Forte, and her partner, creative director Robert Vattilana.
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VMS
JUNE 6, 2021
N OW, MORE THAN EVER, high school athletes want to emulate their college and pro counterparts. Tapping into that trend is Foot Locker Inc. (New York), which has put the first store combining its Champs and Eastbay brands into the Oakbrook Center in suburban Chicago. Dubbed the Champs Sports Community Store, the 21,000-square-foot space is home to the first brick-and-mortar location for Foot Locker’s Eastbay brand.
Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
Plant-based food, solar energy systems for the home and secondhand furniture are set to be the Billy bookcases of the future, as Ikea transforms its product range and the way it operates to become climate positive and circular by 2030. Over the past 12 months, the Swedish furniture giant has introduced over 30 global initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint and help customers lead more eco-friendly lives, including a plant ball substitute of its classic meatball and furniture buy-back scheme.
Retail Store Windows
JUNE 6, 2021
Whoever sold this amount of prop butterflies to this brand must have been jumping for joy. Given the amount of stores this brand have globally (is it 393 still?) and multiply that by probably 1000 Butterflies per store (.ish) this has kept someone very busy recently and great news for the industry. We have seen some wonderful gems from this brand and this is another very beautifully produced installation.
Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
Large-format stores — also known as big-box stores — are known for their no-frills nature. Often housed in simple warehouse-style premises, they’re not fancy, but shoppers don’t mind since they know this will translate to spending less at the cash register. But as technology pervades our everyday lives, retailers are increasingly being impacted by advances in this area, and big-box retailers are being thrown into the mix.
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Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
Austrian jewellery retailer Swarovski launched the first of its redesigned stores in Australia over the weekend, bringing its new ‘Instant Wonder’ store design to Westfield Bondi Junction. The new store design is part of the business’ new brand identity, which seeks to ‘celebrate crystal in all its forms’, and is one of only 28 such stores in the world: having previously launched key markets such as Milan, Paris and New York.
Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
Chinese discount chain Miniso accelerated its expansion plan during the pandemic, opening 364 stores around the world during the past 12 months. The expansion has increased Miniso’s store number to 4587 in China and 94 in overseas markets. The brand recorded the strongest performance in its home market, with physical store and online e-commerce revenue surging 69 per cent and 86 per cent respectively during the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, which ended on March 31.
Inside Retail
JUNE 6, 2021
The US, Britain and other large, rich nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday to squeeze more money out of multinational companies such as Amazon and Google and reduce their incentive to shift profits to low-tax offshore havens. Hundreds of billions of dollars could flow into the coffers of governments left cash-strapped by the Covid-19 pandemic after the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies agreed to back a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15 per cent.
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