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The first GDR Assembly Report – OUT NOW

26 June 2020 - brand values, E-commerce, Fashion, Hospitality, Internet of Things, Manufacturing, New industries, Omnichannel retail, Provenance, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Sustainability, technology, Value chain

The inaugural GDR Assembly Report explores the post-Covid-19 future of business, retail and hospitality using insights from our international, multi-disciplinary panel of experts. Get in touch with rachel@gdruk.com for free access. Covid-19 has been a once…

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Introducing The GDR Assembly

13 May 2020 - brand values, Customer experience, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things, New industries, Omnichannel retail, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Value chain

We are delighted to launch The GDR Assembly – a regular panel of diverse thought leaders and change makers discussing and debating the impact of Covid-19, answering your key questions. The GDR Assembly was established to…

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Pigzbe: Pocket money in a cashless society

2 August 2019 - Customer experience, E-commerce, Internet of Things, Retail technology, technology

GDR Innovation Strategist Dave Dalrymple-Pryde explores connected cashless piggy bank alternative Pigzbe and considers what it says about the future of money.   One of the exhibitors at the Unbound innovation festival in London last month…

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Are we entering the age of “Come to me” retail?

10 October 2018 - Customer experience, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Hospitality, Internet of Things, Omnichannel retail, Retail innovation, Retail technology, technology

GDR’s John O’Sullivan explores the next generation of ultra-convenient retail formats that customers will be able to summon on-demand During the last five years mobile-powered brands like Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon and Domino’s have normalised the idea…

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Platform Thinking: Inspiration Beyond Amazon

14 January 2018 - Customer experience, E-commerce, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things, NRF, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail trends, technology

This article is a summary of GDR CEO Kate Ancketill’s trends keynote at the NRF Big Show 2018, and is the final part of a series in which we explored how technology is remaking the retail…

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GDR CEO Kate Ancketill speaks at the NRF BIG Show this Sunday

12 January 2018 - Customer experience, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things, NRF, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, technology

We’re thrilled to announce that GDR’s CEO Kate Ancketill will be giving the trend keynote presentation at the NRF’s BIG Show in New York for the second year in a row on Sunday. Addressing 35,000 of the world’s…

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Retail Remade

11 January 2018 - Customer experience, E-commerce, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things, NRF, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, technology

In our latest exclusive conversation with Intel, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella finds out how brands can harness the power of technology. Part 1: Back to the Future: The Evolution of Retail Part 2: Smarter…

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Smarter Things: the Autonomous IoT

5 January 2018 - Customer experience, E-commerce, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, technology

In the second of GDR’s exclusive conversations with Intel we explore the future potential of the Internet of Things. GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella gets the thoughts of Intel’s VP of Visual Retail Jose Avalos…

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Back to the Future: The Evolution of Retail

19 December 2017 - brand values, Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Internet of Things, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Value chain

In the lead up to NRF’s Big Show 2018, we’re exploring how technology is remaking the retail experience through a series of conversations with Intel - from the evolution of retail over the last 100 years,…

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Future-proof your brand with NFC

1 September 2017 - brand values, Creative packaging, Customer experience, Hospitality, Internet of Things, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, technology

Apple’s September operating system update will allow the latest iPhones and Watches to read NFC tags. The brand’s ability to influence mass audience adoption means that we could soon be living in a more NFC-connected world,…

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