As the wave of hype recedes around Augmented Reality, GDR Innovation Strategist Dave Dalrymple-Pryde considers what’s left and what’s next for the technology. Nearly two years have passed since Apple released its ARkit framework for iOS…
In the second article of our two-part supply chain and logistics series, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella reveals the opportunities that emerging innovations and logistics trends provide for retailers. As I covered in the…
Yesterday GDR CEO Kate Ancketill appeared on Evan Davies’ BBC Radio 4 show The Bottom Line to discuss personalisation and mass customisation. In this blog post she defines what makes these approaches distinct and highlights the…
In the first article of a two-part series, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella explores the challenges created by complicated modern supply chains. Part 2: Emerging opportunities and logistics trends In 1907 Sears, Roebuck…
US personal care brand Burt’s Bees has launched a three week pop-up store in London’s Covent Garden to promote its new colour cosmetics range. Innovation researchers Harriet Cox and Charlie Lloyd went down to check it…
As brands in multiple sectors are exploring new rental schemes this month, GDR’s John O’Sullivan looks at the retailers who are going even further and inviting customers to borrow their products for free. Right now…
Applying eyeliner with hands covered in fried chicken grease doesn’t sound like the ideal setting for a beauty retail experience but this is exactly the scenario cult beauty brand Benefit has engineered for its latest pop-up…
The shop window at multi-brand New York concept store Showfields proclaims it to be “The most interesting store in the world”. GDR SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella dropped in when he was in town to put…
Much of the flurry of activity around GDPR trailed off once the deadline for compliance passed in May last year. But is there a second wave on the horizon? Article 20’s right of data portability has…
With the NRF’s BIG Show 2019 taking place in New York over the next week, we pay tribute to the most interesting and disruptive new retail concepts in the Big Apple. Here's our list of the…