Retail Focus

MARCH 14, 2022

A-COLD-WALL* has announced the launch of a second Seoul concept store-in-store this month. Following the opening of a bold and distinctly industrial space inside the world-renowned Hyundai COEX, the brand unveils yet another site in the Korean capital, this time located in the famed Lotte Department Store, Jamsil.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

With the opening of Ecoya Martin Place, Ecoya now has two DTC retail stores that complement its extensive network of retail partners, including boutiques and florists to big department stores like Myer, David Jones and Ballantynes.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Barker and Stonehouse have teamed up with Fenwick to open its first in-store concept spaces in the Fenwick’s Newcastle and Bentalls Kingston department stores. The Newcastle concept store will span 10,000 square feet while the Bentalls space will be slightly smaller.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean department store retailing along with Lotte and Hyundai — has continued its great form right through into the second half of the year, helped by the removal of the country’s remaining pandemic restrictions and an increasingly buoyant mood among the country’s more affluent consumers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2024

Central’s acquisition move is not unusual,” Selvane Mohandas du Ménil, International Association of Department Stores managing director, told Inside Retail. Central Group made the headlines again in 2022 after snapping up Selfridges Group, making it the largest luxury department store operator in Europe. What’s next?

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Sydney Airport and Heinemann will jointly introduce Australia’s first domestic terminal “department store” concept next July at T2 and T3. Last month, Heinemann Australia opened its new stores in Gold Coast Airport ’s expanded terminal, after announcing the expansion earlier this year in March.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Nike is to open its latest retail concept, Nike Unite, at Blanchardstown Centre, Ireland’s largest retail and leisure destination. It will be Ireland’s first Nike Unite store, growing the brand’s presence from its two existing Nike Factory Stores in Dublin and Kildare. Nike Unite will open in Spring 2023.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2022

Harvey Nichols has introduced the world’s first blue-chip non-fungible tokens (NFT) retail concept space located inside a luxury department store dubbed ‘HN NFT Vault’ at the retailer’s Pacific Place store in Hong Kong.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2023

Real estate investment trusts like Simon usually prefer to emphasise not net income, but rather a non-GAAP concept, funds from operations (FFO), which grew by a more anaemic 1.1 One of the key issues facing Simon and other mall operators is that they are still joined at the hip to department store anchors. per cent, to US$451.8

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VMS

AUGUST 19, 2021

(Seattle) has announced its intentions to open a new retail experience, similar to a department store, The Wall Street Journal reports. The first concepts are expected to open in California and Ohio and will be set around 30,000 square feet. trillion USD.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Showfields made the mistake of over-paying for real estate and then expanding a concept that had rather limited appeal. While Showfields captured a lot of industry attention, it’s always been a concept in search of a strong value proposition. Can Showfields make a comeback?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Macy’s has been stepping up to the plate with a series of new moves, from the expansion of its smaller-footprint stores, to a new digital fashion platform targeting younger shoppers. But while these initiatives sound promising, the question remains: can the department store chain truly adapt to the needs of the modern-day consumer?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The brand has grown to have a presence in 80 countries through a distribution network encompassing 1200 points of sale across stand-alone stores, franchises, department stores, multi-brand leather goods stores, travel retail and e-commerce websites.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Charity Super.Mkt, the ‘department store for second-hand style’ launched earlier this year by Maria Chenoweth and Wayne Hemingway, will open at Bluewater this week. The Charity Super.Mkt concept has proved hugely popular with shoppers thanks to its curated collections of second-hand fashion.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The retail brand traces its history back to 1673 and a kimono fabric seller named Echigoya, while the department store was established in 1904. The first floor of Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store has been refurbished. The art deco elements are a nod to the department store's history.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Litmus Retail Group has partnered with Myer on a physical showroom concept that will enable the department store to display big and bulky products, such as treadmills, e-scooters and stand-up desks, and track how consumers are engaging with them to inform future buying decisions.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Most recently, on September 10, Finnish lifestyle brand Marimekko opened ‘ Marimekko Concept Store’ on the mall’s ground floor. Is Marimekko Concept Store really a concept store? It has been open for more than two years and is a clearly distinct retail concept leveraging the Marimekko brand.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The store will feature RM Williams’ new retail design concept, which it introduced at its Sydney flagship last year. It will also offer new-season boots, apparel, and accessories, a Marine Blue Comfort Craftsman exclusive to the store, and the brand’s largest women’s offering in the UK.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Most are at pains to differentiate their projects from that so-20 th century concept where people came to buy stuff and occasionally plonked themselves down in a food court to refuel. The lower, ground floor part of the store is where the food is: there’s a supermarket, cafe and delicatessen offering about 400 different Asian dishes.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

Skincare company Clinique will roll out its ‘Clinique Laboratories’ retail concept globally after its successful launch in Shenzhen, China last December. Clinique and design agency Uxus collaborated on the store’s futuristic design and technologies such as face scanning, diagnostics application and Clinique Clinical Reality.

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Retail Focus

JULY 14, 2021

Finding its home in the iconic department store’s prominent Exhibition Road space, the pop-up will serve as an experiential destination to discover the metamorphosis of Bvlgari’s Serpenti Collection, a unique fine jewellery, watches and accessories offering, alongside an exclusive programme of activities throughout the month.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2024

IGA will open a new concept store at Quay Quarter in Sydney CBD on October 15, allowing office workers, locals, and tourists to stop by for a quick meal or a full grocery shopping experience. ” The new store will be located at the Market Hall on Retail Level 2 of Quay Quarter on 50 Bridge Street. .

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Brands can take advantage of this trend by developing their own games or integrating gamification elements into their retail store concepts. Gamification offers numerous opportunities to increase the experience in store concepts and to address younger target groups in particular. Credits: Louis Vuitton. Credits: Burberry.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Spanning eight floors and 71,500 sqft, Johnnie Walker Princes Street is located inside a building, which was formally a traditional department store for almost 100 years.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The consumer-driven experience includes the original control rooms having been fully restored and transformed into an events space and an all-day bar concept, with its original dials and controls on display,” she added. Vulic calls it a lifestyle destination and “one of the best examples of adaptive reuse”.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Where things get a little more complicated is through the introduction of in-store technology that changes (and hopefully enhances) the in-store experience, to become truly frictionless. For example, while the Amazon Go (just walk out) concept may have passed its useful life, that doesnt mean the concept of frictionless retail is dead.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 13, 2021

Housed in the world’s most famous department store, the space will provide an immersive customer experience, as retailers reopen their doors following months in lockdown. Within Selfridges , Roper and Diagon have created a captivating space to reflect the ethos and core values of Pangaia.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The brand has gone through many evolutions since its conception, and is now experimenting with an unusual drop model, which sees it open its website to sell products just four times a year for one week at a time. “We But the question of partnering with big beauty retailers and expanding into department stores remains open-ended.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 27, 2024

A recent Myer trading update will have analysts and investors thinking long and carefully about the bold proposal by the department store for a merger with Premier Investments. The review of the Myer department store business and Myer Specialty Brands was initiated by John King, who retired as CEO in June.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Fabrica X, the experiential concept store launched last year by The Mills Fabrica in Hong Kong, has kicked off a new campaign celebrating innovation in biomaterials. The post Why a concept store in Hong Kong is educating consumers about textile waste appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Westons are said to be seeking £4 billion for their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland, and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand. billion (AU$3.72

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2022

First up is our interview with Matt Newell and Danny Lattouf from The General Store about the store concepts and technologies that are on the rise in the US and which ones are most likely to appear in Australia next year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The space is the upper level of a three-level empty box, the two levels below having been left by upscale department store Bloomingdales , which closed in March 2021. That’s partly because of genuine enthusiasm for the concept that they hope will attract upward of a million visitors a year.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2021

ECI means the building contractor is engaged much earlier in the development of a new retail project, whether it’s a major new sub-regional asset, centre expansion, store refurbishment, precinct upgrade, a stand-alone store, or even a single shop fit out. ECI was the key to success at Neeta City in Sydney.

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VMS

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The retail and tech punditry were abuzz following a recent report from The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) spelling out what Amazon (Seattle) has planned for its department stores, the e-commerce giant’s latest foray into brick and mortar. The stores could open next year and are likely to debut in Ohio and California.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Set to launch in July 2023 – after the opening of the new luxury precinct at terminal one (T1) – Heinemann is pioneering the department store concept inside domestic terminal two (T2) and three (T3), with the retail mix curated to reflect each terminal’s passenger base. Proof of concept.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2024

This is just one example of the brand’s recent efforts to amplify its longstanding commitment to natural skincare, from the launch of a new formulation charter in 2022 to its B Corp certification in February to a new store concept centred on storytelling. “We We do all the right things, but we forgot to talk about it in the past.

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