With Christmas Day fast approaching GDR’s innovation research team has picked out seven of the best festive campaigns, activations and product launches from the 2019 holiday season. Bloom and Wild Christmas Tree Direct-to-consumer florist Bloom…
GDR met Israeli technology company Sonarax at a recent conference and we were fascinated to hear them talk about their ultrasonic technology and how they plan to - quite literally - make waves in retail. Innovation…
GDR’s Harriet Cox interrogates the rapidly growing trend of hyper-personalisation based on DNA testing. There’s little more personal than your DNA. In 2019 there’s been a real surge in a new form of hyper-personalisation in which…
GDR CEO Kate Ancketill will be giving the trends keynote at the NRF’s 2020 Vision BIG Show in January. We’re thrilled to announce that GDR CEO Kate Ancketill will be returning to the NRF’s BIG Show…
GDR SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella joined Microsoft’s Louise Watkins, Spiritland’s Paul Noble and famed podcaster Elizabeth Day to discuss the future of in-store digital experiences as part of the Shaping the Future by Regent Street…
GDR innovation researcher Babette-Scarlett Schossau explores how brands are taking advantage of the more than 7 million passengers passing through the Seoul subway every day. Public transport is a place in transit. It’s a space that…
GDR Innovation Researcher Harriet Cox visited The Body Shop’s new-look Oxford Street flagship to see how it reignites its activist past. Fondly remembered by ‘90s kids for its bursting bath pearls, rich chocolatey smelling body butter…
With the broken promises of WeWork and the constant innovation in co-working and co-living, it’s not easy for casual observers to separate the wheat from the chaff. GDR Senior Consultant Eric Coulon believes it’s time to…
GDR innovation researcher Babette-Scarlett Schossau visited the most innovative new retail spaces in Seoul and reports on the latest trends from the vibrant South Korean capital. The huge metropolis of Seoul is known for the way…
Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo celebrated this year’s London Fashion Week and the London Design Festival with an exhibition held at Somerset House. Called The Art and Science of LifeWear: New Form Follows Function, the brand aimed to…