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Sacred Sojourns

Religious tourism is booming as a new generation of travellers seeks spiritual meaning, cultural rituals and connection across sacred destinations worldwide.

Markets

Gen Z’s Mall Revival

For Gen Z, malls are more than places to shop – they have become social playgrounds where retail, food and entertainment collide to create energy, connection and discovery.

Markets

The Bromeopathy Market

Bromeopathy is entering the mainstream as the wellness industry caters for a new wave of men seeking science-backed products and supplements to fuel their masculinity. 

Big Ideas

SXSW 2025: Reclamation Versus Resistance

SXSW 2025 marked a radical shift from resistance to reclamation, as industry leaders build agency in a challenging democracy, create decentralised media platforms and focus on a shared humanity.

Markets

The Sexuwellness Men’s Market

Meet the innovators rebranding men’s sexual wellness as a pillar of male pleasure and wellbeing.

Big Ideas

Fujitsu creates next-generation interface prototype

Fujitsu : Interface : Mapping Technology

Big Ideas

Direct selling boosts Middle East fashion e-commerce

Dubai – E-commerce is growing rapidly in the Middle East and fashion e-tail start-ups are at the forefront of the nascent market.

E-commerce : Net-A-Porter : Moda Operandi

Big Ideas

Build-a-Bear launches interactive retail concept

St Louis, Missouri – US children’s toy retailer Build-A-Bear Workshop has redesigned six of its stores with new interactive digital experiences aim...

Build-A-Bear : Interactive : Toys

Big Ideas

Milan 2013 Review: Part 1

This year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile was a quiet affair in places. There were pockets of activity across the city’s design districts, where...

Design : Re-enlightenment Rising : Hyundai

Big Ideas

JC Penney moves away from everyday low prices

Plano, Texas – JC Penney will resume coupon advertising in newspapers, reversing an everyday low prices strategy pursued over the past year, major ...

JC Penney : Coupons : Pricing

Big Ideas

Milan 2013 Review: Part 2

In the second instalment of our Milan review, we look at the prevalent themes that came from the fair’s many design districts.

Design : Iceland : Central Saint Martins

Markets

Re-commerce fashion sites to rival eBay in 2013

UK, US – Over nearly 20 years, eBay has been at the forefront of the re-commerce market as consumers discovered that re-selling their possessions h...

EBay : Covetique : Asos

Big Ideas

Google launches online legacy for the deceased

Google : Death : Online

Big Ideas

Facebook extends pay-to-message trial

Facebook : Social Networks : Messaging

Big Ideas

LVMH gets go-ahead to redevelop La Samaritaine

LVMH : La Samaritaine : Restoration

Big Ideas

Kenzo unveils Facebook app to support charity

Kenzo : Facebook : App

Big Ideas

T-Mobile offers iPhone 5 through payment plan

T-Mobile : Apple : Iphone

Big Ideas

Russia’s Amazon equivalent sees 55% sales boost

Moscow – Describing itself as the ‘Amazon of Russia’, online shopping platform Ozon.ru, recorded a 55% rise in sales by dollar value in 2012.

Ozon : E-commerce : Russia

Big Ideas

BabyTime gives mothers visual access to newborns

A new BabyTime service is helping to make the time that mothers and their newborn babies spend apart less upsetting at Cedars-Sinai hospital.

BabyTime : Babies : Mothers

Big Ideas

Mobile games market surges ahead in Russia

Internet : 4G : Networks

Markets

Multi-faceted networks

Social networking has become increasingly central to how consumers interact, function and shop. Sina Weibo and Twitter already have 500m users each...

Social Media : Social Networks : Instagram

Big Ideas

L’Oréal tailors products for Chinese consumers

Cosmetics brand L’Oréal has begun tailoring its products to suit the needs of Chinese consumers in a bid to increase profits in the country’s $34bn...

Cosmetics : L’Oréal : Herbal

Big Ideas

Telecoms brands join forces in Myanmar mobile bid

Mobile : Vodafone : Chona Mobile

Markets

How to: Showroom

UK, US – Retailers are realising that showrooming is not the enemy. Bargain-driven consumers are increasingly researching purchases in-store before...

Showrooming : Bricks-and-mortar : MasterCard

Big Ideas

New Yorkers buy shares in local fishery start-up

Village Fishmonger : Fishing : Start-up

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