Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Super Retail Group sales growth set a “positive start” to the financial year as all retail brands maintained strong trading momentum. The company’s like-for-like sales grew 20 per cent compared to the previous period while online sales represented 10 per cent of year-to-date sales. Camping and outdoor specialist Macpac was the best performing of the group’s chains, with sales up by 76 per cent driven by wet weather in Australia – although its New Zealand subsidiary struggled due to a lack

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Harvey Nichols today unveils the most exciting scheme of the year – Christmas windows. Inspired by festive celebrations, the displays have been designed to entice and capture the attention of customers by using a sparkly metallic colour palette of golds and silvers, and dazzling product displays to excite and delight passers-by. Spreading Christmas cheer, the bright and uplifting displays feature disco ball inspired panels made from sequins that frame the windows, and mirrored decorations that r

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s going to be happy hauntings for retailers, as one in four Australians plan to celebrate Halloween this year. The Australian Retailers Association is expecting $430 million to be raked in over the period, with an average spend of $86 per person. The Party People’s chief executive Dean Salakas said that sales are typically strong when Halloween falls on a Saturday.

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Design Wanted

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Often named one of the pioneers of global industrial design, Achille Castiglioni could penetrate the very essence of objects, see their potentialities and turn them into […]. The post A closer look at the 10 best Achille Castiglioni designs appeared first on DesignWanted.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Apple said on Tuesday it would make fresh investments to set up solar and wind projects in Europe and called on its suppliers to decarbonise operations related to the production of iPhones and other products. The company in 2020 had pledged to remove carbon emissions from its entire business, including products and its sprawling supply chain – which spans from Vietnam to Brazil – by 2030.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Chinese studio Dongqi Design has turned a disused factory in Shanghai into a multi-brand fashion and lifestyle store , adding glossy marble and metal surfaces to offset its exposed concrete shell. Set across three floors, the XC273 retail space houses designer showrooms and pop-ups alongside a small cafe, as well as providing spaces for temporary exhibitions and events.

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Retail Design Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Empório Santa Maria, São Paulo. Design: Espaçonovo Projetos de Arquitetura S/S Ltda , São Paulo. Photography: Ricardo Bassetti, São Paulo. Empório Santa Maria is an 11,000 -sq.-ft. specialty market. The design tea m employed a central axis that acts as boulevard allowing visibility to all departments from bakery to butchery. Large signage calling out major departments assists the customer journey.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pandemic saw the launch of a number of new, online health and wellness brands, as more people searched for ways to stay healthy from the comfort of their homes. One such business is subscription supplement brand Vitable, which creates a vitamin regimen for customers based entirely on their needs. Potential customers can take an online quiz to determine what they could be missing, and the Vitable team will create a collection of 30 days’ worth of supplements, delivered in compostable packagin

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Design Week

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Brand design consultancy Taxi Studio has created a flexible rebrand for Byron Burgers to appeal to digital-first home delivery customers while preserving its original premise of restaurants individually tailored to specific neighbourhoods. Taxi Studio was appointed to work across the entire brand expression including positioning, identity, tone of voice; digital touchpoints such as the website and.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In Southeast Asia, new mall openings are coming thick and fast, and the Philippines is no exception. SM Prime, the country’s largest mall developer gave the country yet another shopping centre, SM City Tanza, on 14 October. Tanza is a city of approximately 310,000 on Manila Bay in the province of Cavite, a 90-minute drive south of downtown Manila. The mall is the company’s seventh effort in that province and its opening was typical of Philippine mall grand opening days, which is to say celebrato

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Mindful Design

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the last decade, a new reality gradually became clear: Restaurant designers have to re-evaluate the way they create their interiors, and pay attention to their appeal to social media users. With a large number of customers choosing dining venues based on their online presence, and with the constant hunt for the next best Instagram […]. The post 10 Ways to Do Restaurant Design for Social Media appeared first on Mindful Design Consulting.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

World’s largest duty-free complex, Haikou International Duty-Free City, is set to open its doors to the public tomorrow in Hainan’s port city of Haikou, China (Oct 28), state-owned ChinaDaily reported. The duty-free shopping destination, featuring the ‘Duty-Free, Free Plus’ tagline, takes over 280,000sqm of the city’s west coast and is home to more than 800 retail brands.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 26, 2022

DixonBaxi has collaborated with Tyme Bank to create GoTyme Bank, a new digital service that hopes to “disrupt the Filipino market” The 2019 Financial Inclusion Survey revealed that 70% of Filipinos (51.2 million people) are unbanked or underserved by existing financial services. GoTyme Bank needed “warm and tactile” branding to help make banking more accessible for them, according to DixonBaxi’s.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s part of a growing movement – a TV show comes out, it becomes a hit, then related products fly off the physical or virtual shelf. As Inside Retail has previously reported, eBay sales of products associated with hit TV shows skyrocketed following their release. Chess sales rose by 110 percent in Australia shortly after the Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit was released.

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Retail Store Windows

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You really do have to experience the beauty of this colour in real life rather than an image as it glows across the street here in Knightsbridge. While this brand is not normally associated with great Visual Merchandising (it just doesn't seem to be their thing) they have in this case at least added one prop but the bright Pink products with the Bright Pink background looks magnificent.

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Edge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Featured in Office Lovin’ “The Joules brand values are omnipresent through key moments both externally and internally. Everything from the reception, landside meeting spaces, product showcase and communal spaces to wayfinding, textures and finishes have been designed to inspire and engage all visitors and users in the Joules way of life.” Michael Fern - Director, Edge The online directory which aims to showcase the best architecture & interior design firms from around the globe, has featured

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Eye on ESG

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The requirement for companies to conduct human rights diligence (“ HRDD “) is increasingly being implemented by legislators across the globe. For example, the EU is expected to adopt its draft corporate sustainability and due diligence directive in 2023. Importantly, the Directive will apply to Japanese companies and their subsidiaries if they meet certain criteria (for further information on the applicability of the directive to Japanese companies, read our earlier blog post here ).

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Edge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Featured in Office Lovin’. “The Joules brand values are omnipresent through key moments both externally and internally. Everything from the reception, landside meeting spaces, product showcase and communal spaces to wayfinding, textures and finishes have been designed to inspire and engage all visitors and users in the Joules way of life.” Michael Fern - Director, Edge.

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Bay Cities

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Retail is a fast-moving and constantly changing space. Keeping up can be the difference between gaining a critical inside edge and falling behind.

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Edge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Featured in Commercial News Media publication. “To create value for our clients, we believe you must deliver quality office space focused on what the occupier wants. Our brief was to create a flexible, bold, and vibrant workspace that appeals to occupiers and encourages their staff back to the office. The team at Edge produced a fantastic design concept for the space and we have been impressed by Virtus on the delivery.

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Trade Show Booth Companies - Trade Group

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Live events disappeared for most of 2020 and a chunk of 2021. Now, trade shows and live events are returning. The good news for trade show managers is that, as these shows open, attendees are returning, too. Consider that the? Global Recovery Insights 2021 found that 72% of existing trade show attendees plan to attend trade fairs with the same or increased frequency as their pre-pandemic appearances, and 16% plan to attend much more frequently.

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