One of my favourite Asian product categories is face masks and more precisely, foldable cloth masks. It is by far the popular mask format over here and virtually all the brands on sale are from Taiwan, Korea or Japan. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: Essence is in town!
For the last six years I’ve been regularly visiting Singapore. I go there once a year, usually for a month, staying with a friend of mine and taking brief side-trips into the other countries in the region. No matter which country I go to I always spend a lot of time in stores and shopping malls to check out retail trends (also, all of SEA is hot and humid and I like aircon!), and to simply enjoy the Asian mall experience. Continue reading
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Filed under Industry News, Retail, Travel, Trends
Niche Parfum & Showroom – Art and indie fragrances in Prenzlauer Berg
Earlier this week I visited Niche (store website), a brand new art-and-perfume store in Rykestraße 16. Artist Chris Gräfensteiner opened her fragrance/showroom in December; she sells her own artwork, fragrances from L’Artisan Parfumeur and Six Scents and Berlin accessories label Wanawake. A beautiful store and a really cool retail concept; Niche will also be my next Mintel article.
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Store Profile: Wheadon – Organic C&T in Berlin
I recently visited Wheadon, a perfumery in Steinstrasse 17 in Mitte, just off Rosenthaler Strasse. Owner Nicole Wheadon opened her store last June. Continue reading
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Filed under Berlin, Mintel, Retail, Store Profiles
Store Profile: Saint Charles pharmacy in Berlin
Last week I visited a beautiful pharmacy in Berlin-Wilmersdorf – Saint Charles Apotheke (www.saintcharles.de), a partner store of the eponymous pharmacy in Vienna. They have a really unusual retail concept which is why I’m writing my December Cityscape article for Mintel on Saint Charles Berlin. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Prague: Beauty retail in the Czech capital
I just returned from four days in Prague, it was very cold and snowy but beautiful. This was my first visit to the city since a school trip back in 1992. Besides sightseeing, shopping and eating I also spent a lot of time checking out the local cosmetics stores. Continue reading
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Store Profile: Fingerbang pops up in Berlin
Today is the last day of The Fickle Finger of Fate, a temporary nail art event organised by Berlin label Fingerbang (www.fingerbang.com). Fingerbang is the creation of nail polish fan Larissa Bechtold, she decided to found her own label and organise pop-up nail art bars all across Berlin. What a fantastic idea! The nail bar is located in Bold Room on Torstrasse 68 in Mitte, check it out! Fingerbang is also my current retail trend article for Mintel and it was great fun to write…..! Here it is: Fingerbang
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Advent’s buying up German retail group Douglas
…although I’m not a fan of Douglas perfumeries (this is a purely personal opinion!) it is depressing that yet another German retail group is being acquired by a US investor…..sad! I’m writing a short piece on this for Cosmetics International….
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Mintel article: A new look for Kadewe’s perfumery department
Berlin luxury department store Kadewe has just opened its new and improved beauty department on the ground floor – my next article theme for Mintel / BPC: KaDeWe offers a new vision of beauty
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TRENDS. TRAVELS. AND BERLIN 