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Join us for the GDR Foresight Festival 2020

4 September 2020 - brand values, Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Fashion, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Hospitality, Manufacturing, New industries, Omnichannel retail, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Sustainability, technology

GDR Foresight Festival 2020: 28th September - 2nd October 2020 (Daily Lunch & Learn Sessions 12:00 to 13:30 GMT)   In the last 6 months, we’ve witnessed a time of unprecedented change, transformation and innovation on a…

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“It’s time to totally change the way our town centres work”

21 August 2020 - Architecture, Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

GDR CEO Kate Ancketill joined BBC Radio 4 current affairs show You and Yours to talk about shopping centres of the future. Discussing the proposed £400 million redevelopment of the Nicholsons Shopping Centre in Maidenhead by…

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“Covid-19 is a fire drill for the big climate fight ahead”

17 August 2020 - brand values, Design, E-commerce, Fashion, Hospitality, Omnichannel retail, Provenance, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Sustainability, Value chain

In the fourth episode of The GDR Assembly Interview series, GDR’s head of strategy Eric Coulon talks to Pippa Corry, the founder of Philo & Co, who mentors leading creative agencies and FMCG brands to show…

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Behind the mask: how brands are responding to the ubiquity of the face mask

6 August 2020 - brand values, Campaigns, Customer experience, Design, Fashion, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail trends, Value chain

GDR Innovation Strategist Charlie Lloyd explores how brands are creating face masks with unique functionalities and designs to support their communities during the Covid-era. Few things have become as ubiquitous so quickly as the face mask.…

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In Conversation With … Arnaud Champenois

30 July 2020 - brand values, Campaigns, Customer experience, Design, Hospitality, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Sustainability

In the second episode of our In Conversation With series, GDR CEO Kate Ancketill talks to SVP global head of brand, marketing and communications at LVMH-owned luxury travel group Belmond, Arnaud Champenois, who has formerly worked…

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GDR’s blueprint for physical retail in the Covid era

17 June 2020 - brand values, Customer experience, Design, Omnichannel retail, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

As non-essential stores across the UK reopened this week after almost three months out of action, we explore the ways that retailers are responding to the new challenges of the social distancing era and what it…

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RECAP: The C-Series so far

7 May 2020 - Campaigns, Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Fashion, Hospitality, New industries, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

During the last two months we’ve published the first five articles of the C-Series, exploring the impact Covid-19 is having on consumer behaviour; how we live, work, play and shop, both now and in the post-pandemic…

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LISTEN: Why Laura Ashley must learn from Nike

11 March 2020 - Design, Retail innovation, Retail trends

GDR CEO Kate Ancketill believes struggling British heritage brand Laura Ashley needs to learn from Nike if it wants to turn its fortunes around. Last month the fashion and homewares retailer was forced to secure an…

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Putting the activism back into The Body Shop

5 November 2019 - brand values, Customer experience, Design, Retail design

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…

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The future of hospitality is in the workplace (and vice versa)

5 November 2019 - Architecture, brand values, Design, Hospitality, Retail design, Sustainability

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…

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