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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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GDR meets … Mio

13 October 2017 - Customer experience, Design, E-commerce, Omnichannel retail, Retail innovation, Retail technology, technology

Roman Drokov CEO of autonomous mobile robot Mio visited GDR’s London HQ last week to talk to the team about the future of consumer-facing robots and why CPG brands need to pay attention “I see a…

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GDR CEO Kate Ancketill speaks at Shop.org next week

21 September 2017 - E-commerce

GDR CEO Kate Ancketill will be inspiring the leading thinkers in global e-commerce when she speaks at Shop.org in LA next week.   She will be discussing how e-commerce brands can build healthier, more trusting relationships with…

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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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Optimising for the future: an interview with Daniel Hulme of Satalia

18 May 2017 - Fourth Industrial Revolution, Retail innovation, Retail technology

“We solve hard problems,” says the top line on Satalia’s website. Based in London, they are a firm that offers optimisation services to a range of clients. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, they can…

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Guest Blog: Connecting Malibu rum to the internet of things with Cameron Worth of SharpEnd

3 January 2017 - Creative packaging, Retail design

GDR is pleased to host a guest post from Cameron Worth of the Internet of Things agency SharpEnd on the exciting things his company is doing in collaboration with Malibu. We’re on the cusp of a massive…

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GDR loves… Benefit Cosmetics

2 June 2016 - Customer experience, Retail branding, Retail trends

The best brands are adapting their communication to support their target groups and speak with customers in their own language, and in ways that are genuine and feel individual to the customer. One brand doing this…

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What we shared at the Adobe Summit

17 May 2016 - Retail trends

Last week I spoke at the Adobe Summit 2016 where I examined what the Fourth Industrial Revolution would mean for consumer-facing businesses. It’s not easy to condense the implications of a large paradigmatic shift into under…

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