VMS

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Finnish design house Marimekko (Helsinki) has opened a new experiential retail space in SoHo. Its key markets are Northern Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and North America. Located at 97 Wooster St., it replaces a New York flagship that closed at the end of last year. In all, Marimekko has about 150 stores in 35 countries.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Even the name Moshi Moshi is a Japanese phrase – it’s an informal way of saying “hello” when answering a phone call from a family member or friend – and given the love of Thai people for Japanese culture and products, that isn’t such a bad marketing tool. Some stores also sell pet accessories.

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2022

In each case, the arrival of these brands in new markets has generally been greeted with huge enthusiasm. The reasons for the appeal of Japanese retailers are easy to understand: they have good store designs, often with small footprints that make tidy, efficient use of space without appearing cluttered. Isetan is a case in point.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The mall will include retailers such as Gentle Monster; Maison Kitsuné and the 28th location of its acclaimed Café Kitsuné; California-based, celeb-approved athleisure brand, Alo Yoga; as well as Finnish textile, clothing and home furnishings brand, Marimekko. The Malaysian market travels, and locals are looking for these brands.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Through this rebranding, we’re breathing new life into Bed Bath & Beyond, positioning it as an asset-light, e-commerce retailer with an expanded home furnishings and furniture assortment. Think of it as Bed Bath & – a much bigger, better – Beyond.” At present, the new proposition feels too disjointed and confusing.

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Design Middleeast

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Al-Futtaim IKEA, the region’s leading Swedish home furnishing retailer, unveils a 30m-long community table to celebrate Dubai Design Week. In addition, Al-Futtaim IKEA has taken a step further by launching a Maker Space at Dubai Design District.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

He said that New Zealand is a smaller market compared to other countries, including Australia, where Ikea has had a presence for 50 years. It will feature three levels – including a significant retail space, parking and a restaurant and bistro serving Swedish delicacies – with sustainability at the heart of the development.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Retail Network Strategies partners with retailers to develop their property network strategies through a highly analytical approach to maximise profitability and market positioning within the network and further expand the business. I think the market has been a bit slow off the mark in recognising the benefits.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Thailand’s Central Retail is also going to have a go, quite literally, at the wholesale market. However, so far, these are small moves in the overall scheme of things, and Costco has a lot of white space to attack in the APAC region as a whole. This, too, will be member-based. Sales of non-food items decreased 0.4

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 18, 2021

“People have higher expectations for home, and a greater desire to belong in the community and social life,” says Anna Pawlak-Kuliga, Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer for China. Instead, the new layout will expand into a mix of open squares and calm spaces, inviting visitors to interact, connect and recharge.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2023

Vincom is easily the largest mall developer and operator in Vietnam, and wants to focus less on new development this year and more on a trifecta of objectives aimed at its existing mall fleet: driving rental growth, upgrading its market positioning, and strengthening the shaky operating metrics of elements of its far-flung portfolio.

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VMS

JULY 28, 2021

In the Montpellier branch, however, this is teamed up with Monop’ Daily, a French food-for-now and food-for-later retailer (and an offshoot of mid-market department store Monoprix) and a travel version of skincare and beauty retailer L’Occitane en Provence. On a somewhat larger scale and in the U.K.,

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2023

Contrary to the large flagships staking a brand’s presence in a broader market, retailers are scaling down to serve local communities, as these leading brands demonstrate: Ikea, Hammersmith. Chinese elements are detailed throughout the space, helping to underscore the message of great product design and customer service.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2022

In a crowded market like the home fragrance category, where everyone from fast fashion and beauty brands to discount department stores and pharmacists are selling candles, it’s near impossible to create and retain cut-through, much less develop an iconic brand synonymous with luxury and quality like 60-year-old Parisian brand Diptyque.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

The company did its best by improving product sourcing and curation to meet the needs of the day, such as higher demand for cleaning and hygiene products, home furnishings, appliances and computers. Centres like the one in Sisaket have suffered greatly from lockdowns and other restrictions during two years of pandemic.

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VMS

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Homebase is one of few major players in the market, and until recently it was a place you went to for cable, paint, screwdrivers – well, you get the picture. Yet it has just released a Zara Home toolset – hammers, allen keys, screwdrivers and so on. But in fact, the boundaries are increasingly confused. In the U.K.,

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VMS

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We are excited to share this collection that will bring a sense of paradise to any space and can be installed anywhere you can imagine tile.” – Ghislaine Viñas, designer, and founder Ghislaine Viñas. www.ghislainevinas.com. www.imaginetile.com.

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Design Wanted

JANUARY 18, 2022

You have to make sure it will suit the space, and the needs of you and whoever else lives with you, you need to make sure you actually like it and you have to be sure it will last. What about demographics, has there been an area in the market that you have found particularly responsive when it comes to the idea of renting furniture?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

The new mall which took its bow on December 1, has six levels that could properly be called retail, food and beverage, and several more levels for parking and event space. Garcon lifestyle shop seems to draw inspiration from Urban Outfitters, a large Foot Locker, and M Contemporary, an art exhibition space.

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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2022

Tenspace (Columbus, Ohio) offers digital native and direct-to-consumer brands, like sports apparel brand Rudis, a physical space to test store concepts and brand activations. The idea: provide a low-cost, supportive space for a fledgling app or a gadget to be nurtured for a limited period of time. NURTURING NEWBIES. Advertisement.

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Design Wanted

JUNE 2, 2021

While jurors will be in charge of assigning the first prize, consisting of free exhibition space at the Milano Design Week 2021 for the winners. Un Dressing Table, one of the latest entries, aims to offer a space where to slow down from the frenetic rhythms of our daily routines and strip away the stress of modern life – ©Lara D.

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