
Trade Show Review: NRF2024, January, New York, US
NRF2024 was a full return to normal following the pandemic. Visitor numbers back to full force. Very few if any at all exhibitor cancellations. New food innovation zone and some exciting MHE displays. Overall, a lack of excitement despite all the AI talk.
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Amazon's new $1bn Industrial Innovation Fund
Amazon $1bn Industrial Innovation Fund announcement
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A review of Retail Without Borders 2020
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RWB remains the number one event for cross border trading on marketplaces despite the understan...
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A Review of FT Future of Retail conference by Financial Times Live, 2019
FT Future of Retail Conference, 18 Sep, 2019
Royal Garden Hotel, West London, United Kingdom
ST...
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A review of EuroCIS, February 2019
EuroCIS 2019 was a relatively small trade show spread out over two halls (9 & 10) at Dusseldo...
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NRF 2019 Review of Frictionless Stores
A review of the frictionless store concepts on view at #NRF2019; Ai-Fi, Cloud Pick, Cisco, Toshiba, Zippin, and Soul-M. Only one of these appeared commercially available right now - Cloud Pick, a Chinese company.
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Manhattan Associates #MAExchange in Amsterdam 2018
Push Possible
Manhattan Associates organises an annual event in Europe for EMEA customers. This w...
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This is how you do scaffolding in Harrod's style
20/09/2018: Passed by the famous Knightsbridge Harrods store on the way back from FT Future of Re...
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Farfetch IPO - Our view
After a relatively long period of media speculation, Farfetch has finally filed an intention to l...
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What CEO's need to know about cannibalisation and exponential complexity of the omni-channel
Online has led to widespread high-street store cannibalisation putting profitability at risk. CEO...
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The real reason for the demise of high street retailers - customer service
Retail is detail... and customer service.
Long gone are the days when you could instruct your st...
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Arket - interesting concept store, but lacking in details
We visited Arket on Long Acre in Lodnon's Covent Garden earlier this week.
The store is located ...
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A review of Retail Without Borders by We Are Pentagon
Definitely worth visiting!
Retail Without Borders 2018 #RWB18 is one of the better conferences ...
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Retailers IT estate the next battle ground for suppliers & partners?
On our recent visit to NRF2018 we saw the new piece of EPOS hardware Square payments had just rec...
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Our next Retail diagnostic report will be on... Arcadia Group (Topshop)
There are so many questions about the retailer, its presumed staged divestment of BHS, its [lack ...
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Who will buy Jimmy Choo?
Since JAB went public with their intention to sell off Jimmy Choo there has been continued specul...
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British Fashion Ecommerce divided by geography and sector
Posted by Thomas Andersson, March 7, 2017.
When looking at the UK fashion e-commerce landscape (e...
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Fashion Discount Outlets; The Open Secret
Acne Jeans/ Acne Studios outlet store fascia.
Twenty minutes drive South from Gothenburg lies a...
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A walk in Seven Dials in London Dec 7th, 2016 - 360 Video
Will December trade save retailers? Not on this evidence...
We took a stroll in Covent Garden (or...
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A Virtual Look Inside Selfridges Department Store, Oxford Street, London, UK
A Virtual Look at Selfridges Christmas Interior
We took a quick stroll inside Selfridges with our...
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Where has the omni-channel gone?
Omni-channel retailing has been one of the most talked about concepts in retailing for a while. T...
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And the prize for the most boring store interior in London's Oxford Street goes to...
The most boring store interior designs in London this Christmas
We visited Oxford Street, Carnab...
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Primark revenues within touching distance of £6bn + 360 Interior Views of Oxford Street Store
Primark has reported about £0.7bn in net profits on revenues of close to £6bn in its 2016 full ye...
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Some Oxford Street Store Fronts Oct-16
Images from pre-Christmas store fronts on Oxford Street. Taken Oct 13, 2016.
Dr Martens Shopfront...
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Styleintelligence celebrate 12 months of FashionTech cover with content syndication by leading Artificial Intelligence company
In September 2015 we took the decision to build a library of Fashion Technology specific sector r...
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Pokemon Go in the Fashion world??
Image source: TheVerge.com
Within five weeks of its launch, Pokemon Go has already generated $2...
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UK Retail Vacancy Rates
On a recent visit to the Brent Cross shopping centre in North London we counted no less than nine...
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Burberry Seeking Chief of Cost Cutting
(Image source: Burberry Plc)
The British luxury brand has seen its fortunes reverse since Angela ...
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Superdry moves against the grain with a 21% increase in revenues
Laundry Athletics Ltd, the company behind the SuperDry brand and headquartered in Cheltenham, Un...
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Kathryn Sargent - Savile Row's First Female Tailor
(Image source: Kathryn Sargent)
Founded by Kathryn Sargent in 2012 the company bearing her name ...
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Online going offline?
Made.com opened its first public showroom in 2015 and in the last few days NotOnTheHighstreet.com...
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Farfetch raises $110million
Our first reaction to Farfetch raising another $110million taking its total funding to $300millio...
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Joules Ltd to list on AIM
Lloyds Development Capital acquired a 20% stake in Joules, the UK fashion brand and retailer in 2...
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Benetton - What Next?
Benetton accelerated with huge growth in the 70's and 80's growing into a global force in colourf...
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