Foreign buyers are keen to cash in on properties in New Zealand, Bayleys says, with a particular interest in retail. Several big purchases have been made by overseas players this year and the company expects more to follow.
It’s not just international fashion retailers that want a slice of the New Zealand pie – food retailers are eyeing it up, too. As part of an ongoing series, Here Come the Giants, we talk to JLL New Zealand’s head of retail about which retailer
Ten children's drawings have been lovingly brought to life in toy form by furniture retailer Ikea as part of its annual fundraiser. For each toy purchased, the company will donate one euro to children's education projects via Unicef and Save the Children. The toys range
Loyalty schemes have two functions: data gathering and encouraging an emotional connection with your brand, says TRA’s Colleen Ryan. If yours isn’t doing either, maybe you should consider scrapping it.
Kathmandu’s newest ad seeks to remind shoppers that the outdoor gear company isn’t just for winter clothing. To create the ad, members of its loyalty programme, the Kathmandu Summit Club, were taken to Indonesia’s Mt Rinjani for a five-day mission up a volcano.
There’s much to be upbeat about in New Zealand book retail. Book sales volumes have grown 9.3 percent in the year to October 3, showing bookshops aren’t being beaten down by a tech-laden world. This optimism will be celebrated on the first ever NZ Bookshop
Pepkor has struck a deal to bring its UK department store chain, Debenhams, to the southern hemisphere in Australia in 2016. The deal could ultimately see the company further expanding into New Zealand in the future, creating competition for the likes of Farmers and Smith
This Saturday, millions of tiny monsters, ghouls and witches will be unleashed onto America’s streets in search of one thing: candy. New Zealand consumers are traditionally reluctant to celebrate Halloween, but retailers are seeing more and more Kiwi shoppers jumping on board the ghost train.
It seems as though people are in a rush to do everything and get everywhere these days, and a consequence of this hurrying, people are replacing meals with snacking. Nielsen data puts snack sales at $374 billion globally for the year ended March 2014 –
The Apple Watch and contactless card payments are so 2015. Mastercard has announced a new programme in the works that turns rings, bracelets or clothes into wireless payment devices, taking the technology in a very interesting internet-of-things direction.