Unfortunately for many department stores, the pandemic has been a final blow in the battle with online retail, spiralling real estate costs and difficulty serving... read more
Insights
The Retail Roadmap to Recovery
The Bank of England recently declared that the economy is recovering from the coronavirus recession faster than expected. Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the... read more
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What will 2021 and beyond hold for Architects?
Leading London networking business Urbano, recently posed this question to a group of senior architects in a webinar. On the panel was our own Annie... read more
Thoughts
Why hoteliers should be refurbishing during a pandemic
Hotels that undergo a rejuvenation approximately every seven years, are least likely to experience a dip in profit. It is essential that hotel owners plan... read more
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transforming office blocks
The global pandemic is causing a major shift towards working from home, which is having a significant impact on the built environment – and it... read more
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The End of the World as we know it – and I feel fine…
A sense of proportion can be hard to maintain when the events we directly experience are wide-ranging enough to be truly global. Our sense of... read more
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Generation Z are the unlikely saviours of physical retail
Interestingly and conversely to what was previously anticipated, recent research shows that Generation Z is spending more time in physical stores than any other consumers... read more
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Hotel rejuvenation and why hoteliers need to plan for this years in advance
The UK hotel market is a competitive one. Social media offers up the most hard to please customers and ratings are taken seriously by others,... read more
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Pop-ups are more about the R.O.E. than the R.O.I.
Matthew Greenwell of Storefront and James Breaks from rpa:group share their views about pop-ups becoming primarily about return on experience and why brands are increasingly... read more
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UK high streets need to be more about creating communities and less about just retail
It is time to return to the root of what people want; the creation of multi-faceted communities offering variety and meeting a diversity of local... read more
Thoughts
getting ahead in the fitness industry race
One in every seven people in the UK is now a member of a gym, and according to the “2018 state of the UK fitness... read more
Insights
value and values…
As retail consumer profiling becomes more granular, with increasing generations and shopper tribes demanding immediacy in meeting their specific needs, how do brands and designers... read more
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essential retail design trends for 2019 that can’t be ignored
Ultimately, a store is a reflection of its brand. Therefore any design or redesign needs to reflect its brand values. It is the responsibility of... read more
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evolving retail: why retail brands are moving from traditional retail spaces
These days, it is all about experiential shopping and retailers are on an important quest to engage with their customers, by delivering retail theatre and... read more
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educational environments: 5 key drivers of change
The importance of schools to create active and inspiring learning environments that compliment how teaching and learning has evolved… read more
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Why Symbiotic Retail Space Works…
Theo Paphitis was recently quoted as saying “It really does feel like retail as we know it is creeping closer and closer towards the precipice”… read more
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omnichannel is the only road to success for car dealerships…
To survive, retailers have realised that they need to adopt an omni-channel approach and car manufacturers are no different… read more
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New breed of hotels & restaurants want to be one of the locals…
The global boom of the sharing economy, driven by brands like Airbnb and funded by the loyalty and enthusiasm of Millennial consumers, has caused hotel... read more
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the future of student accommodation
Over the past 10 years, the provision of high-end student accommodation has boomed. However, post BREXIT the numbers of foreign students with the money to... read more
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Seismic changes can help secure retail’s future…
With so much happening, so quickly, in the world of retail we thought it was high time to delve deeper into the seismic changes affecting our industry,... read more
