Store Design & Visual Merchandising

The latest store format innovations, store design trends and visual merchandising, including the latest store image galleries by John Ryan.

Tesco muscles in on the growing bicycle market Subscription Required

March 12, 2010

Tesco has quietly opened “bike shops” in eight of its stores, muscling in on specialists such as Halfords and Evans.

Rose says time is right to up M&S store revamps Subscription Required

March 12, 2010

Marks & Spencer should step up the pace of its store modernisation programme again, executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose has said.

Getting into club Bershka Subscription Required

By John Ryan

Can the club ambience of Bershka’s revamped Oxford Street store help put it more firmly on the UK’s young fashion map?

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HMV and Waterstone’s: Joined-up thinking Subscription Required

By John Ryan

The HMV Group has just opened its first joint HMV and Waterstone’s store, near Newcastle. John Ryan visits to see if the new format works

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Debenhams Newcastle

Green Market to new market: Debenhams returns to Newcastle Subscription Required

By John Ryan

Debenhams has returned to Newcastle after 15 years and its store has some bold new features. Yet it works.

Store Designs on the future Subscription Required

By John Ryan

Store design may have been on the back burner in the past 12 months, but John Ryan finds 2010 is shaping up to be better

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Charity begins in Edinburgh Subscription Required

By John Ryan

Working with retail guru Mary Portas, Save the Children has opened a design-led charity store in Edinburgh.

Store of the week: La Petite Poissonnerie Primrose Hill, London Subscription Required

March 12, 2010

Every now and then you come across something that does make you stop and smile and this newly opened shop in London’s chi-chi Primrose Hill does just that.

Store of the Week: Zigzag Liège, Belgium Subscription Required

March 5, 2010 | By John Ryan

Zigzag is a homewares store that uses Denmark as a convenient cipher for designed simplicity and all-round wholesomeness.

Store of the Week: Kronometry 1999, New Bond Street Subscription Required

February 26, 2010 | By John Ryan

French watch retailer Kronometry 1999 is exactly what you would expect of a store on New Bond Street.

Store of the Week: Hotel Chocolat, Victoria Subscription Required

February 19, 2010 | By John Ryan

We’ve all grown used to the world of semi-designer chocolates proposed by Hotel Chocolat - the place in which you buy your beautifully packaged, yummy confections in an environment that makes you feel good about parting with a fair amount of money.

Greg Hodge

Grocers to target smaller footprint stores for growth Subscription Required

March 12, 2010 | By Greg Hodge

With 2009 annual results flooding in, the overriding opinion of last year is that it was one when retailers cut back on expenditure and scaled back store openings. The outlook now is for conservative store growth through smaller footprint stores.

Louis Vuitton

Shopfitting: Fitter, happier, more productive Subscription Required

March 5, 2010 | By John Ryan

Retailing has changed and that means to be successful shopfitters need to change too. John Ryan takes the temperature of the shopfitting world

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