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sci-fi elements & celestial references decorate HAYDEN interior in china

Design Boom

the brand adopts the concept of the 'black hole' to break the definition of beauty. The post sci-fi elements & celestial references decorate HAYDEN interior in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Sports-inspired Restaurant Design Is All About Tennis

Mindful Design

After planning on fine-tuning an American staple and creating a fresher, more sophisticated burger version, Yoon Seong-ho, CEO of Fault Burger’s parent company, applied the same fresh vision to the design of this burger joint. Located in Seoul, South Korea, Fault Burger is a fun celebration of everything tennis and a cool place to hang […].

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Brusnika in the South of Russia (Sochi) by Tatiana Kazantseva

Retail Design Blog

Brusnika ( Russian for “lingonberry”) is a Russian brand creating clothes for women of diverse age, size and world outlook.

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Harrods open second beauty emporium H beauty in Milton Keynes

Retail Focus

Following the launch of its inaugural store in Lakeside, Essex in September 2020, Harrods has announced the opening of its next stand-alone H beauty destination in centre:mk, Milton Keynes. The 29,000 sq.ft. space brings together a diverse portfolio of premium brands, must-have products and exceptional beauty services and experiences. The latest H beauty is an experiential wonderland where beauty addicts and novices alike can find their forever-favourites as well as some of the industry’s most f

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AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype

AI is rapidly transforming digital commerce, but how do you separate real opportunities from hype? Moderated by Orium, AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype , experts from Bloomreach , commercetools , Contentstack , and Fluent Commerce explores where AI is already delivering results and where its potential is still unfolding. This masterclass dives into proven AI applications, emerging innovations , and the gaps between promise and reality in commerce.

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Booktopia earnings double in third quarter

Inside Retail

The continued rise in online shopping has delivered online bookseller Booktopia another strong period, with third quarter underlying EBITDA up 267 per cent to $4.2 million and revenue hitting $65 million – a 53 per cent growth on the same period last year. And, due to improvements made in Booktopia’s distribution centre in Lidcome , Sydney, the business was able to ship 45 per cent more product during the quarter, from 1.44 million to 2.09 million items.

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sci-fi elements & celestial references decorate HAYDON interior in china

Design Boom

the brand adopts the concept of the 'black hole' to break the definition of beauty. The post sci-fi elements & celestial references decorate HAYDON interior in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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TBC Concept opens first Flagship Space in Georgia

Retail Focus

TBC Bank has unveiled their new TBC Concept flagship at 7 Marjanishvili, Georgia. British design agency Sheridan&Co worked with TBC Bank to deliver a multi-use space that provides flexible working environments, remarkable hospitality and educational experiences, whilst also facilitating a stage for the rich cultural scene across Georgia. Spanning over 4 floors and 2400 sq.m. 11 zones are sectioned according to their different functions: exhibitions and presentation halls, library, café, co-

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Woolworths to recycle batteries, mobile phones

Inside Retail

Supermarket Woolworths is further hastening its consumer-facing sustainable initiatives by announcing a battery recycling initiative, with collection units to be placed in every Woolworths store around the country. The units will accept used batteries, as well as mobile phones, in an effort to bump up Australia’s rate of battery recycling – which currently sits at around 10 per cent, lagging behind other developed nations.

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Ascona Group bolsters portfolio with three new forecourts

Retail Times

Ascona Group, one of the UK’s fastest-growing forecourt operators, is pleased to announce the completion of three service stations across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Somerset, taking its total portfolio to 59 sites across the UK.

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Coca-Cola supports UEFA Euro 2020 sponsorship with consumer competitions

Talking Retail

Coca-Cola is set to launch two on-pack competitions as part of its sponsorship of UEFA Euro 2020, in a move designed to “engage consumers whilst on-the-go and at home whilst enjoying football at home with family and friends”. The “Scan. Enter. Win.” competition will run from 25 May across bottles of Coca-Cola Original Taste and. This story continues at Coca-Cola supports UEFA Euro 2020 sponsorship with consumer competitions.

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Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains

Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia

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Retail Sales Incentive Programs

Retail Focus

Retail sales incentive programs are an excellent way for retailers to reward their most valuable assets—their employees—by showing tangible gratitude. There has been a lot of talk lately about how customer service and retail jobs are on the decline. And while that may be true, it doesn’t mean retailers can’t do anything to show their appreciation for the hard work done by their most valuable assets: the store’s sales associates.

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Amazon expands parcel pick up network to Western Australia

Inside Retail

Amazon Australia has today launched its Amazon Hub parcel pick up network in Perth, and added hundreds of new locations across existing networks in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. The expansion of its pick up network comes after the surge of Australians having tried online shopping for the first time during the Covid-19 crisis, with the network now available at more than 750 locations across the country.

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EARTH 300 is a 984-foot atomic superyacht on a mission to save the world

Design Wanted

A futuristic vessel designed for oceanic research, the EARTH 300 is emission-free and powered by nuclear energy. A “science city” on board an explorer vessel is big enough to accommodate 160 scientists and 22 state-of-the-art laboratories. Set for launch in 2025, the EARTH 300 boasts 984 feet in length and will be packed full of green technology with the intent to study climate change and hopefully come up with some solutions.

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Spar gets ready for summer with new wine launches

Talking Retail

Spar is rolling out four new wines for its own-label range ahead of the summer. The symbol group is launching its Crisp White and Fresh Rosé wines in 2.25-litre bag in box formats, available from 29 April and retailing at £14.99, the equivalent of three bottles of wine. Adam Georgiou, brand manager from Spar UK, This story continues at Spar gets ready for summer with new wine launches.

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Future-Proofing Enterprise Commerce: Why Extensibility Wins with Shopify

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is evolving fast, and brands relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions risk losing agility. But modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar, we’ll explore how an extensible, modular approach empowers brands to integrate new capabilities, enhance performance, and scale efficiently—all while leveraging Shopify’s strengths.

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Tommy Hilfiger opens new store at Lakeside

Retail Focus

Lakeside, one of the UK’s most popular retail and leisure destinations, owned by property company SGS, is pleased to announce that Tommy Hilfiger has signed to open a new store at the centre. The leading fashion name has taken on a 2,448 sq ft space, with a menswear and womenswear offering. The store joins an exciting line-up of over 300 brands, including Apple, Zara, Mac, H&M, Hugo Boss and Superdry.

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Shopify brings social commerce to Pinterest Australia

Inside Retail

Pinterest and Shopify will extend their partnership to a further 27 countries, including Australia, in a move expected to making social commerce easier on the platform. The partnership will enable Australian businesses to easily bring products to Pinterest and make them shoppable, and allows market-specific feeds, meaning the discovery platform can be used as an online catalogue for brands to show off different products in different markets.

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Giant Bicycles UK deploys new tech to support over 300 retail partners

Retail Times

Giant Bicycles, one of the world’s top bicycle manufacturers, has introduced new technology into its UK operations to help it work better with its hundreds of retail partners across the country.

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Ferrero brings back coconut favourite

Talking Retail

Ferrero is bringing back its limited edition Kinder Bueno Coconut variant in response to consumer demand. The variant was first launched in 2017 and will be available this year from May in plain and 60p price-marked packs. Levi Boorer, customer development director at Ferrero, said: “Following the success and positive consumer support Ferrero achieved from.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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New Sky shop to open at Buchanan Street, Glasgow

Retail Focus

Hines, the international real estate firm has announced that Sky, Europe’s leading media and entertainment company, has chosen to open one of its first bricks and mortar retail shops at 229-249 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Opening on 6th May, the new Sky shop will occupy a 2,500 square feet unit and bring together Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband and Sky TV all in one place.

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How this former Mercedes-Benz exec was inspired to launch her own start-up

Inside Retail

Like many talented industry professionals last year, Uniek founder Katherine Gracey was motivated to finally take the plunge and launch her own loungewear direct-to-consumer business. Here, we chat with the former head of marketing at Mercedes-Benz about what she learnt from the auto brand, her favourite retailers and why diversity and inclusion are at the heart of her start-up.

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After you saw Elon Musks’ ‘MindPong’ monkey, are you ready for these 6 brain-connected tech products?

Design Wanted

Here are six emerging technologies offering a glimpse into the future of brain tech and neural implants… Earlier this month, Elon Musk’s start-up Neuralink announced they created a cyborg monkey who can play MindPong using a brain chip. A 3-minute video showed Pager, a male macaque with chips embedded on each side of its brain, playing the video game with the power of its mind.

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Nomadic Dairy targets commuters with latest advertising campaign

Talking Retail

Nomadic Dairy is launching an out-of-home advertising campaign across tube and train stations across London. The “Yogurt Made Good To Go” campaign will kick-off from 3 May and run for two weeks, focusing on Nomadic’s best-selling Yogurt & Oat Clusters on-the-go range, with POS support in Spar and other independent convenience stores. The brand said.

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🚀Future-Proof Your Salesforce B2C Commerce: Modernization Strategies Inside!

Outdated platforms are costing you sales. Legacy platforms like Salesforce SiteGenesis and SFRA can slow innovation, increase maintenance costs, and frustrate customers. This playbook provides a strategic roadmap to modernizing your Salesforce B2C Commerce platform using a composable approach to transition to faster, scalable, and flexible e-commerce solutions —without disrupting your business.

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Experimental Perfume Club selects Seven Dials for flagship boutique & laboratory

Retail Focus

Shaftesbury has announced that Experimental Perfume Club (EPC), renowned for its educational and experiential approach to perfumery, has opened the doors to its first ever ‘lab-boutique’ at 53 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials. . Spanning 550 sq ft, the multi-faceted space serves as EPC’s flagship and offers an environment that empowers consumers to explore, understand and create their own fragrance. .

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How Amazon more than tripled its profits in Q1

Inside Retail

Amazon.com has posted its fourth straight quarter of record profits, thanks to the global shift to online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic. . The US company revealed in an earnings update on Thursday that it had more than tripled its profits to US$8.1 billion on sales of US$108.5 billion in the quarter ended March 31, 2021, outperforming analyst expectations.

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Toast Ale honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development

Retail Times

Toast Ale is a social enterprise set up in 2015 to tackle food waste. The brewery works with bakeries to prevent surplus bread from being wasted, using it to produce its popular range of craft beers. The circular economy approach to brewing also reduces the environmental footprint of the beer because less natural resources are required.

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Pandemic reinforces importance of forecourt convenience, report shows

Talking Retail

Only 9% of forecourt shoppers cite fuel as the main reason for their visit, new research reveals. The new Lumina Intelligence UK Forecourt Market Report 2021 highlights the key missions that are driving shoppers to forecourts: Planned top-up (26%), food-to-go (16%), newsagent (11%), and distress top-up (9%). The report identifies the most popular categories purchased.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Leeds United dial up the drama in football club store

Retail Focus

Whilst LUFC have been hoping for a winning streak that would shoot them to the top of the table before the end of the season, Design4Retail (D4R) have been busy elevating the Elland Rd club store in collaboration with LUFC’s kit provider, adidas, in time for the reopening of retail on 12 th April. The main task was to e nhance the customer journey via the implementation of several touchpoints that would dial up the drama for brand-led fan engagement.

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Analysis: M&A refocuses in the time of coronavirus

Inside Retail

In the past few years, trading conditions have been harsh for the retailing landscape, and 2020 certainly added extra pressure for most. The impact of Covid-19 has left many consumers with fewer reasons to shop and even fewer ways of doing so. With the onset of the global pandemic, many retailers were struggling to reach their customers. For some, it was due to a lack of e-commerce capability, logistics infrastructure or newly irrelevant products and services.

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Why you’re going to really like the B2B online marketplace

Retail Times

B2C online marketplaces such as Amazon and Walmart are a very big deal, with $2.67 trillion spent globally on the top 100 online marketplaces in 2020. That’s 62% of global online retail sales. Unsurprisingly the B2B world, from software and life sciences to chemicals, electronics, and business services, is looking to the marketplace model.

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A mesh of materials, spaces, and experiences with RappUnger

Design Wanted

Driven by a fascination for testing and exploring the limits of materials, Berlin-based experimental design duo Idalene Rapp and Natascha Unger take us through their thought-provoking and unexpected design approach. The duo met at the Berlin Academy of Art, Weißensee, where they both completed their BA and MA in Textile and Surface Design, and merged their creative chemistry through RappUnger creative studio.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever