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Immersive Retail Showcase: Take a 360 virtual tour of Fortnum & Mason, London

10 June 2021 - brand values, Customer experience, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

GDR has created an immersive 360 degree virtual tour of the iconic Fortnum & Mason department store in London’s Piccadilly to highlight the key features that make it a mainstay of the UK’s luxury retail scene. Fortnum…

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GDR visits… Asda’s sustainability trial store

27 May 2021 - brand values, Creative packaging, Customer experience, Design, Manufacturing, Provenance, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Sustainability, Value chain

Since its opening at the end of last year, we’d been desperate to visit Asda’s Middleton store, the location that serves as the supermarket brand’s testbed for all things sustainability. This week, our innovation strategist Charlie…

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2021 is shaping up to be a big year for augmented reality

29 April 2021 - brand values, Creative packaging, Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

As the ground-breaking Ikea Place app gets a big update, GDR’s Managing Editor John O’Sullivan ponders whether augmented reality is set for another breakthrough year in 2021. Augmented reality has been one of the “next big…

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Top 5 personalised beauty innovations

22 April 2021 - Creative packaging, Customer experience, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail trends

GDR Innovation Strategist Charlie Lloyd identifies five beauty brands who are leveraging innovative technologies to personalise their product offerings. Over the past weeks and months we’ve seen a real uptick at GDR in beauty innovations centred on hyper-personalisation.…

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The C-Series: How brands are innovating in response to Covid-19

14 April 2021 - Campaigns, Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Fashion, Hospitality, New industries, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

During the last twelve months we’ve been publishing the C-Series to explore the impact Covid-19 is having on consumer behaviour; how we live, work, play and shop, and how brands are innovating in response. There is…

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Top 5 lockdown Easter campaigns and product launches

1 April 2021 - brand values, Campaigns, Creative packaging, Customer experience, Hospitality, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Sustainability, technology

GDR Managing Editor John O’Sullivan picks out his favourite examples of how brands are engaging and delighting consumers during lockdown Easter. For the second year in a row, this weekend’s Easter celebrations will be very different…

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Essential listening: Catch up on In Conversation With …

22 March 2021 - brand values, Customer experience, E-commerce, Fashion, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Hospitality, NRF, Omnichannel retail, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Sustainability, technology, Value chain

In Conversation With is a regular series where GDR CEO Kate Ancketill talks to leaders and successful entrepreneurs about what brands and retail operators should be doing right now to make their businesses fit for the…

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C-Series 7: How Covid-19 is changing the role of physical stores, Part 2

4 March 2021 - Customer experience, Omnichannel retail, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

GDR Managing Editor John O’Sullivan explores how the pandemic has accelerated the shift towards hybrid, flexible, experiential physical stores with less traditional retail space. In our last C-Series article we explored how the growth of ecommerce…

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The C-Series 6: How Covid-19 is changing the role of physical stores

18 February 2021 - Customer experience, E-commerce, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Omnichannel retail, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends

GDR’s Managing Editor John O’Sullivan restarts the C-Series by exploring how the growth of ecommerce and the proliferation of online logistics systems during the pandemic have changed the role of our physical stores. Last year we…

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GDR’s key takeaways from NRF 2021

28 January 2021 - brand values, Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Fashion, Fourth Industrial Revolution, NRF, Omnichannel retail, Retail branding, Retail design, Retail innovation, Retail technology, Retail trends, Sustainability, technology

GDR CEO Kate Ancketill picks out what surprised her, and what didn’t, at this year’s new look NRF 2021 Chapter One. This year’s iteration of the world's biggest retail conference, NRF 2021, was like no other…

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