Retail Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The community-fuelled space has opened in London’s Covent Garden, home to world-class fashion, beauty, and lifestyle stores. Performance footwear and apparel brand, HOKA® launched in 2009 and has been disrupting the running industry ever since. The 1750 sq.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2023

Back in 2009, industrial designer Meindert Wolfraad identified a gap in the market for practical, comfortable and stylish commuter bikes that would enable Sydney-siders to get around, similar to what he saw growing up in the Netherlands. Meindert Wolfraad: Lekker Bikes started back in 2009, in Sydney.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Meindert Wolfraad launched Lekker Bikes in 2009 while living in Australia as a backpacker, and over the years, he grew the brand into a successful global cycling business. Meindert Wolfraad: I started Lekker Bikes back in 2009, in Sydney. Exercise gives me the mental space and endorphin-hit to get that creativity flowing.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 30, 2022

What we found was that having a 100-year-old warehouse space that relied on a lot of foot traffic to make it work didn’t really necessarily sell furniture in the best way. Now that bricks-and-mortar stores are open again, it’s aiming to provide a seamless omnichannel shopping experience. Tapping into online shoppers.

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Dezeen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The result is a monochrome space with fabric-lined walls and ceilings, thick carpets and rows of mirrors that are set at an angle in a nod to the perspective-bending decor often found in nightlife venues. Only clothing displays provide a colourful contrast. Its interior is lined in fabric and thick carpet.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

What prompted you to move to a new space in North Sydney? We could have stayed, but going through Covid-19, and shifting the whole of the retail operation to an e-commerce strategy gave us the opportunity to get off that treadmill of having a seven-day-a-week physical retail space and to reimagine what a retail experience could be like.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The evolution of pop-up stores took another significant turn in 2009 when the concept expanded beyond retail to encompass industries such as food and beverage, capitalising on the principles of ephemerality and exclusivity.

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