Mass personalisation, fast-laning and elevated engagement are the trends to jump on board this year, says trend forecaster WGSN. The firm runs two big “trend summit” sessions each year, travelling around the world to share insights.
New Zealand invading America? It’s exactly what the company behind Habitual Fix aims to do by opening at least 30 locations in the United States. Can a Kiwi restaurant chain slug it out with America’s food titans?
Men have often been overlooked in retail in favour of their female counterparts, but the rise of the metrosexual and lumbersexual may have given way to a demand far greater than any other category.
Shears & Mac is one of New Zealand’s largest commercial interior design companies. It has worked in New Zealand for a number of prominent retail clients, including Cue, Ballantynes, Coach, Quiksilver, The Coffee Club, OPSM, Federation, Lovisa, Sunglass Hut, Trenery and Reebok.
A pop-up vending machine in Berlin, Germany offered shoppers an almost irresistible deal: the chance to buy a €2 (NZ$3) t-shirt. However, people discovered the cheap price point came at a bigger cost. They were shown a series of shocking images of women and children
Research company Ipsos has found out the companies that are the country’s top movers and shakers. New Zealand brands had a strong showing and intermingled with international heavyweights - Google, Facebook and Kiwi-born Trade Me made up the overall top three. The top three influential
New retail spaces are available for lease in Tauranga's Papamoa Plaza and Wanganui thanks to new mandates to reposition and lease parts of regional shopping centres won by commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE New Zealand.
The executive chairman of property, design and research specialist agency RCG, Paul Keane, explains why South Island department store chain H&J Smith's purchase of Dunedin store Arthur Barnett was a brilliant move.
Kiwi Property has posted a profit increase of $89 million (13 percent) in the year ending 31 March. It has a retail portfolio of six shopping malls and one large retail centre. This includes Mount Wellington based mall, Sylvia Park, which it says it is
It once was nothing but a science-fiction fan’s dream, but now it’s happening. With the first headsets available for presale via electronics store Noel Leeming last weekend, virtual reality has become a consumer reality