All articles by John Ryan – Page 71
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AnalysisStore of the Quarter: The White Company, Symons Street, Chelsea
The retailer with a monochrome vision returns to its SW3 roots with a flagship store aimed at providing everyday luxury, writes John Ryan
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AnalysisShopfitters survey: Flying in the face of reason
Shopfitters are an optimistic bunch, but are their predictions about the prospects for 2011 a bridge too far? John Ryan reports on the Retail Week/National Association of Shopfitters survey
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AnalysisMeating and greeting
Victor Churchill, a butcher’s shop in Melbourne, takes a mundane commodity and turns it into a real spectacle. John Ryan reports
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AnalysisShopfitting: still a tough place to be
Any analysis of the shopfitting sector reveals that business has been tough and continues to struggle. John Ryan looks at the landscape as we unveil this year’s top shopfitter survey
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GalleryPuma Rewind
To be fair this is only partly a shop, if you regard one of the functions of a shop as being to display goods that people might want to buy. This is, self-evidently, a truck that appears to have a variant of a Chinese puzzle along one of its sides.
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AnalysisWhat’s in store
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Retail Week Interiors, a standalone magazine that we hope will provide news and information about the retail design and fit-out sector that might not normally get coverage, allowing for the constraints of space and time.
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OpinionThere’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever...Clarks
Why trial a new store format offshore when there are loads of opportunities at home?
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GalleryCrystal gazing
Austrian cut-glass retailer and brand Swarovski has opened a store on Oxford Street that is a bling heaven. John Ryan reports
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OpinionArchitects move in on store design
Tough times in the commercial design and build sector mean rich(er) pickings for retailers
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GalleryCopenhagen stores: Retail’s Great Danes
There’s a lot more to the retail panorama in the Danish capital than stripped pine and bright colours. John Ryan reports on Copenhagen’s retail scene
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GalleryLondon Living, John Lewis, Oxford Street
London Living, a pop-up ‘shop’ created by John Lewis on the third floor of its Oxford Street flagship, is like taking an apartment and forgetting to put doors and corridors from one room to the next.
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Opinion
Selfridges steps out
The Shoe Galleries at Selfridges show what happens when store and product are in alignment
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GalleryHed Kandi, Bluewater
For those who spend their evenings in nightclubs tripping the light fantastic, the chances are good that the words Hed Kandi will be familiar. This is a company that produces predominantly dance music and is owned by that global force in such matters: Ministry of Sound.
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GalleryJohn Lewis at Home: At home on the Purley Way
John Lewis has opened its second home-only store on Purley Way in Croydon, but are the locals keen customers? John Ryan reports
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OpinionRefurbishment: what remains unsaid
For retailers who have managed to see their way through the last couple of years, now might be a good time to make the most of hungry shopfitters and ill-nourished commercial property agents in order to revamp their estates.
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GalleryTemma Cologne
Temma, in the southern part of Cologne, is the kind of food shop rarely encountered this side of the Channel.
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GalleryMaking sense of in-store imaging
There are more ways than ever of communicating visually with your customer, but does it all add up to a better store? John Ryan reports
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OpinionOf Chopin and McDonald’s
Retailers could and perhaps should do more to entertain their customers
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GalleryA perfect brew of tradition and luxury
The East India Company has a rich history, but can its relaunch with an opulent new shop in London do this justice?
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GalleryWegmans Jamestown, New York State, US
Wegmans is one of the more upscale food retailers in the eastern United States and, like its rivals, it generally trades from big box properties.