Jo Malone on refreshing the retail experience
The fragrance entrepreneur is reinventing retail for the second time with Jo Loves.
The fragrance entrepreneur is reinventing retail for the second time with Jo Loves.
From creating fragrances at her kitchen table to starting her second brand from scratch, fragrance entrepreneur Jo Malone believes the best companies put consumers at the creative heart of everything they do.
Physical stores are being transformed as virtual reality and real-time data enable retailers to offer immersive experiences and adjust the shopping environment.
Local community spaces combined with ‘some retail’ will be the high street’s destiny according to the ‘queen of shops’, who says retail brands must provide bespoke experiences in each location.
Despite increasing prices, the footwear brand says it has “not seen any impact” on sales in the UK and EMEA, but the US continues to drag down its overall performance.
Former P&G, Heineken, Converse and now Philips marketer Claudia Calori believes using the creative and analytical parts of marketing is key to success, regardless of category or sector.
The Body Shop pioneered ethical beauty, but that positioning is no longer unique and its owners need to inject life into the brand to arrest its decline.
Motor retailer Halfords has introduced dynamic pricing in its services business to drive profitability by directing demand to its under-utilised autocentres.