Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having embraced digital shopping channels during the pandemic, Australian consumers have become well used to the personalisation and tailored content offered online. So how can physical retail stores replicate the experience and deliver an equally personalised interface for customers? “The only way to achieve that is through a digital medium,” says Neal French, director of Chrome Enterprise sales JAPAC at Google.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mauro Porcini is a happy designer. One of the few who was able to make it a big corporation without giving up on his original ideal: […]. The post Mauro Porcini and the human side of innovation appeared first on DesignWanted.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Global streetwear brand Ksubi has made its European debut opening a store on London’s Carnaby Street. Established in 1999, the Sydney-based label predominantly operates in the US with flagship stores in New York, Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles. This is the brand’s first store in the UK and Europe. The London flagship – built in collaboration with design consultancy Brinkworth – features a bold concrete ceiling with an inlaid red marble cash desk and grey granite display plinths and

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ibiza’s music scene is still as groundbreaking as it has always been. Emerging from music beats and party spilled onto the beach, the island has attracted […]. The post One of a kind sensorial immersion with McIntosh and Sonus faber in Six Senses Ibiza appeared first on DesignWanted.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Footwear retailer Clarks Australia has established a new, four-year partnership with Aussie Ark – a not-for-profit organisation that protects endangered wildlife – as part of its plans for a more sustainable future. An asset of Brand Collective, Clarks is also set to sign a four-year partnership with Greenfleet, a local not-for-profit that restores native forests.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Often, sofas set the mood of the entire space and when chosen correctly, they can become the hero of your home; in order to do so, […]. The post 10 best-designed modular sofas that look and feel good appeared first on DesignWanted.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As AI tools continue to evolve at an exponential rate, creative practitioners of all disciplines are both curious about its potential and concerned about its longer-term implications. And with increasingly high-profile case studies to stoke debate, it’s fair to say that artificial intelligence has enjoyed its share of the spotlight in 2022. For instance, Jason Allen’s Theatre D’opera Spatial.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Heinemann Australia has opened its new stores in Gold Coast Airport’s expanded terminal, after announcing the expansion earlier this year in March. Having nearly doubled the size of its retail space to 1324sqm across the departures and arrivals areas, Heinemann has adopted Gold Coast Airport’s ‘Coast to Hinterland’ design concept, using materials, textures, and colour scheme that mimics the region’s landscape of beaches, rainforests, and mountains.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Aqua Creations’ C4 Pendant Light in Grass – Code 130? Collection. Comes in five distinct shapes in a range of colors. Made from Plexiglas and silk, the C4 Pendant Light in Grass – Code 130? Collection encompasses limited-edition creations, hand-crafted by light artisans. Can be combined with any of the other pieces from this company’s C+ series collection, or it can stand alone.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Peter Huddle has been named Vicinity Centre’s new acting CEO, bringing forward the former chief’s retirement timeframe. Earlier this month, Grant Kelley retired as the CEO and MD of Vicinity Centres after five years in the role. A global search for his replacement is currently underway by executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Huddle joined Vicinity in 2019 and is responsible for the company’s property management, leasing, operations, development, and marketing functions while delivering an i

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Retailers of all sizes are scrambling to clear their stores and warehouses of excess inventory to make room for new holiday merchandise that’s more likely to move, Supply Chain Dive reports. Among the indicators pointing to that glut: By the second quarter of 2022, retail inventories were up 31 percent over the same time last year, an S&P Capital IQ and FTI Consulting analysis found.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Retailers including H&M, Kering and Inditex will purchase over half a million tonnes of low-carbon alternative fibres for clothing and packaging to help reduce global emissions, they said Monday. The announcement by 33 brands, printers and producers coincides with COP27 climate talks taking place in Egypt until the end of this week to seek to step up ambition on curbing global warming.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Circular retailer (Paterson, N.J.) Borobabi has changed its name to Manymoons and opened a flagship store under its new identity in New York’s SoHo. The retailer says its new name is designed to more clearly convey its eco-conscious value proposition as it broadens its product assortment and expands its online activities and brick-and-mortar footprint. “The retail sector is ripe for disruption,” Carolyn Butler, Founder and CEO of Manymoons, says in a news release. “As a chemica

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Shoppes at Londoner is the latest project from Sands Retail and, together with developments at the Venetian, Four Seasons and the Parisian on the Cotai Strip, constitutes Sands Shoppes Macao, the largest duty-free luxury shopping experience in Macao. Located within The Londoner Macao and covering over 600,000 square feet, the new shopping destination will house more than 150 world-renowned brands in an elegant British-themed setting.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A-nrd studio took inspiration from Sydney’s Art Deco architecture and coastal scenery for the new Soho branch of Australian restaurant, Milk Beach. The restaurants take their name from Sydney’s Milk Beach, a small, isolated beach surrounded by the heritage-listed Strickland House Estate. Based in the new IIona Rose House building, Milk Beach Soho’s interior boasts an array of natural materials.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Recruitment in 2023 will continue to test us. If we have gleaned anything from the pandemic, it is just how unpredictable the world is and how swiftly we must adjust and embrace change. Adapting to our new world of recruitment has required a monumental shift in mindset. Next year will be no different. After all the events that have reshaped our employment landscape, the conundrum of the employment market continues.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Jake Wood, who plays Max Branning in Eastenders, performed the opening of new-look Torridon Road Post Office and Torridon Convenience store. Jake’s first acting role was in the 1984 television series The Gentle Touch, the same year that the Patel family took on their store at 189-193 Torridon Road, Catford. The 10-week refit saw the. This story continues at EastEnders star cuts ribbon at new-look Post Office and store in Catford.

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Drytac

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Drytac ViziPrint Impress Clear film was used to produce a stunning window installation that explored gender identity, religious iconography and Latin American Pop Art. The wide-format division of printer manufacturer Mimaki recently collaborated with creative professional Anabella Bergero to produce a striking window installation, printed on Drytac ViziPrint Impress Clear film.

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RetailMinded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Image recognition technology, which is in use in many different fields, is one of the most popular developments that has been on the agenda of the retail industry for the last few years. Advances in artificial intelligence also allow the potential of image recognition technology to be unleashed. There are visual artificial intelligence services in the retail industry , especially grocery retailing, and image recognition technologies come at the top of the list.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Wholesale experts TWC Group, in partnership with food-to-go and out-of-home tracking programme MealTrak, has issued the latest food-to-go market performance to 12 w/e 3 October 2022. Latest results are as follows: Latest 52 weeks 52 weeks year ago (comparable period) 52 weeks YOY change Latest 12 weeks 12 weeks year ago (comparable period) 12 weeks.

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Eye on ESG

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

During last year’s COP26, the UK Government announced that it would mandate the disclosure of listed companies’ and financial institutions’ net zero transition plan, and that it would form a taskforce to assist private sector actors in doing so. Coinciding with the start of COP27, the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (“ TPT ”) – a taskforce with a mandate from His Majesty’s Treasury to help enable private sector actors in the UK create robust climate transition plans to fulfil their net zero commi

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Nishi Patel, an award-winning independent convenience store retailer who owns Londis Bexley Park, is said to be seeing an increase in footfall and a rise in niche products sales since partnering with retail technology platform NearSt. Patel said the number of people viewing his Google business listing has doubled since joining the NearSt platform. “Since.

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RetailMinded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Retail and other small businesses face a lot of competition, particularly online. It can be challenging to stand out and start growing. But taking care of a few things consistently can produce excellent results in the long run. Here are four things that are essential for small businesses to grow: Build A Us er-Friendly Website. All businesses in 2022 should have a user-friendly website regardless of industry.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ingredients experts, Eurostar Commodities warns that the severe drought in southern Spain and Portugal is having a drastic effect on the price of long grain rice and resulting in forecasted tighter supplies and a price increase of almost one third (29%). The volume of the next Spanish long grain rice crop will drop significantly by. This story continues at Southern Europe drought sparks grain price spike.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

(PRESS RELEASE) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Retailers expect a busy holiday season the next two months but imports at the nation’s major container ports should continue to slow from records set earlier in the year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “Cargo levels that historically peak in the fall peaked in the spring this year as retailers concerned about port congestion, port and rail labor negotiations and other supply

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

F’real, the UK’s leading self-serve milkshake brand is set to boost consumer engagement and significantly increase in-outlet awareness with a comprehensive redesign programme, rolling out before the end of the year. Free to all current F’real stockists, the rebrand will include new visual content for existing base units, blending bar headers and protective screens.

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Nomadic Dairy has made its first foray into a significant non-yogurt category with two protein puddings, launching this week in Spar stores nationwide.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

UK sandwich brand, Urban Eat, is bringing the festive cheer this Christmas with three limited-edition seasonal SKUs, available in out of home and convenience from now until 30 December. The range will bring “season’s treatings” to consumers with classic Turkey Feast and indulgent Brie & Cranberry, and a Turkey, Stuffing and Cranberry panini, with the latter designed.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Green Friday will offer discounts of up to 70 per cent on products from some of Australia’s high-profile brands from this Friday, providing an alternative to “unsustainable” sales events like Black Friday and Click Frenzy. A four-day digital event, Buy Better, will be accessible from Friday through Monday (November 18-21) and will feature sustainably-focused offers and discounts from more than 100 brands including Poshmark, Camilla, and The Body Shop.

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Talking Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Pringles has launched its 2022 TV advert which combines two things that are set to be on many people’s minds over the next couple of months – Christmas and football. Produced by Grey London, the advert is set to a Pringles take of ‘Carol of the Bells’ and celebrates a collision of football and festivities. This story continues at Pringles launches festive campaign with football & Christmas ‘mash-up’.

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