House of Fraser closes 31 stores
The department store chain, which was founded in 1849 in Scotland’s Glasgow, is in serious financial trouble.
"Digitization is changing our understanding of shopping"
According to Bernd Albl, Managing Director Digital Retail at Umdasch, at the end of the day, consumers no longer distinguish between online and in-store shopping. Seamless Shopping is the keyword.
Ikea finds its way into the city
The Swedish furniture giant may still be in the planning stage for this project, but worldwide first Ikea city-location at Vienna’s Western Train Station is already beginning to take shape.
Bosch’s First Monolabel Store in Europe Opened
Umdasch was responsible for concept, planning, general contracting, shopfitting and digital retail.
About the space-relatedness of the spaceless
The meaning and impact of digitization on retail parks in five core theses.
An award for “First Store by Alexa”
The winners of this year’s “Real Estate Marketing Award 2017” were again honored at the international real estate fair Expo Real in Munich. The winners in the “retail” category are Union Investment Real Estate/Sonae Sierra/21Media for their “First Store by Alexa,” a new competition concept for innovative store ideas.
Opening of the BWT Flagship Store in Moscow
BWT, Europe’s leading company for water technology, with headquarters in Austria, entrusted Umdasch Shopfitting with the design of its first bricks-and-mortar brand world.
Big brother reloaded | retail technology at intu
Audience recognition cameras in intu Victoria Centre in Nottingham will ensure that customers receive personalized content.
Big brother reloaded | retail technology at intu
Audience recognition cameras in intu Victoria Centre in Nottingham will ensure that customers receive personalized content.
From Digital to Physical
Fashion brands lead the pureplay-to-omnichannel transition as the role of physical stores in the UK evolves.
Retail Technology: Launch of Hyper-Reality Experience
“Tick Tock Unlock” makes Trinity Leeds the first shopping center in the United Kingdom to provide a VR-powered hyper-reality experience to its customers.
"The complexity has increased enormously"
According to Martin Wendsche, Managing Director for ISG in CEE, lounge concepts and integrated gastronomy are now part and parcel of shopfitting.
Holymesh as Winner of the “First Store by Alexa” Competition
Alexa visitors and Facebook fans, along with an expert jury in a final session, evaluated three finalists from the “Best Newcomer” category.
Paradigm Shift in City Centers
Online retail is increasingly shaking up tenant mixes in Europe’s cities. The bricks-and-mortar trade is desperately seeking innovative concepts.
Security monitoring included
Hardware, software, analysis—the holistic “smart tracking” solutions developed by the Digital Retail experts at Umdasch Shopfitting provide extensive information about customer behavior in shopping malls and stores.
Interactive, Individual, Impressive
An international jury of experts commissioned by EHI and Messe Dusseldorf bestowed the most convincing store concepts with the EuroShop Retail Design Award again this year.
Retail Technology: From ESL to viPOS
Umdasch Shopfitting had a booth at EuroShop, the leading retail trade show in Dusseldorf, once again this year. The topic of digital retail was omnipresent.
NEW SHOPPING HABITS REQUIRE NEW RETAIL CONCEPTS
More than half of consumers in some European countries shop both online and offline. For example, German and Dutch omni-channel shoppers are responsible for more than two-thirds of total retail turnover (source: GfK non-food consumer panel).
Balfin Group Brings Spar International to Albania
The €50 million investment was made public at the end of last year.
Digital Retail
How retail technology and increasing digitalization are changing retail and the shopping center industry.