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Make more of what you have, urge store designers
Revise, remix, reinvent and reuse. This was the advice given by a panel of store designers at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona in a session on Store Design During a Recession.
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GalleryStore of the week: Lulu Guinness London
Handbag designer and homewares retailer Lulu Guinness is 20, or at least the brand that bears her name is, and this store, which has just opened on Ellis Street in the heart of London’s ritzy Knightsbridge, stands as evidence that the creative streak has not deserted her.
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GalleryAdidas’ Parisian store revamp impresses
Adidas is going for gold with the striking revamp of its Champs Elysées flagship. John Ryan goes to Paris for a tour
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NewsJohn Lewis to launch standalone home and electricals format
John Lewis is to open standalone homewares and electricals stores in a bid to gain greater coverage of the UK market.
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OpinionKeep going, there’s still stuff to be done
The UK’s largest shopfitter has unveiled what can only be termed as a catastrophic set of results — but Styles & Wood’s 23 per cent fall in sales also means is that retailers are still handing out 77 per cent of the fit-out contracts that they were in the prior year.
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Styles & Wood announces massive drop in profits
Shopfitter Styles & Wood has unveiled a catastrophic drop in profits for 2008 as it was hit by a combination of cancelled and scaled-down retail contracts and substantial restructuring costs. Profits for the year to December 31 were £3.8m , down more than two thirds from £11.8m in the previous year.
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NewsZara Kids unveils first UK store in London’s Covent Garden
Spanish fashion giant Zara has opened its first standalone Zara Kids shop in the UK as it seeks to grab a larger slice of the £4bn childrenswear market.
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GalleryStore of the week: Chez Jean, Paris
Chez Jean is a convenience store, a cafe, a top-up shop or maybe even an emergency dinner ingredients shop.
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AnalysisShopfitting market adapts to downturn
Store revamp budgets have gone the same way as the economy – down. John Ryan asks how the shopfitting market is adapting
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OpinionMoscow embraces the mid-market
Moscow has an impressive luxury brand offer, but in these straitened times it is the mid-market retailers such as Karen Millen that are really taking flight, so is the time right for more mid-market UK retailers to start a Russian love affair?
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NewsRetail Interiors Awards 2009 launch
The Retail Interiors Awards 2009 are now open for entries. In their 12th year, the awards are recognised as the benchmark by which store designs are judged and this year Point of Purchase Campaign of the Year has been included as a new category alongside the other 14 awards.The closing ...
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GalleryNext in line
Next has made another leap forward with its latest store revamp at Oxford Circus. John Ryan finds out more about the new format
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NewsJessops unveils new-look flagship store
Jessops has unveiled its new-look flagship store on London’s New Oxford Street as part of plans to turn the beleaguered retailer around.
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GalleryDetskiy Mir — Moscow
Translating, more or less, as “Children’s World”, Detskiy Mir was a retail feature of the pre-glasnost era. The name went underground somewhat in the new Russia until February this year, when it was relaunched in four remodelled stores around Moscow.Averaging about 21,530 sq ft and designed by Fitch, the stores ...
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NewsInditex brings in system for speedier store design
Spanish fashion giant Inditex has introduced a system to its store design department to speed up the design process for shops worldwide.The Windchill system, provided by PTC, manages the information Inditex holds about the building equipment, interior design and furnishing of its stores.Inditex is increasing the standardisation of the furnishings ...
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Opinion
Food retailers are missing a trick
While money may be in relatively short supply, there are still plenty of affluent neighbourhoods in our larger cities where foodies are shopping in small, deli-style stores.
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GalleryStore of the week: Uniqlo, New York
Space is an essential commodity for retailers and the further down the socio-economic scale you go, the more intensively it tends to be used.It’s a surprise, therefore, to wander into Uniqlo, not 200 yards from the recently opened Topshop in lower Manhattan and see how ...
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GalleryLiberty in the name of luxury
Liberty’s latest incarnation is a tour de force of luxurious, design-led merchandising. John Ryan takes a look at the cosmetic overhaul
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NewsSpar to use eco-store elements in Nottingham Eurospar
Spar will use elements of its store of the future in Northern Ireland in the first Eurospar to open on the mainland next month.
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NewsLakeland unveils a new-look store design
Homewares retailer Lakeland has unveiled a new-look store design with the opening of its Durham shop.The 5,000 sq ft shop, which opened last week, features a demonstration kitchen to promote the retailer’s recently-launched own-brand electricals range, alongside an area to showcase kitchen essentials.The centrepiece of ...