How can you ensure that your point of sale is optimised for growth? The optimisation study is a comprehensive solution
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How to Transform Your Stores to Maximize Turnover and Adapt to New Trends. Discover Some Insights in This Article
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Does this retail model still meet consumer expectations? Discover how shopping center managers have adjusted their strategies in response to emerging trends. We take advantage of this article to conduct an interview with one of them. Check out our interview with Grégory Boucart, Shopping Manager at Wereldhave Belgium. In recent years, shopping centers have experienced […]
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The real estate market is going through a complex period. To keep your investments afloat, errors are no longer allowed. It becomes crucial to reduce risks and anticipate as much as possible the obstacles that may be encountered.
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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg’s employment market is faring well and there is set to be a significant increase in the country’s workers, both in terms of its residents and cross-border workers. Does this point to major office development? We calculated the amount of office space which would theoretically need to be developed to accommodate […]
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Mixed-use development brings together different uses (housing, retail, offices, services, etc.) in a fairly small area. In our view, any urban development project should now be mixed-use, beginning at a neighbourhood level. In this article, we explain the challenges and the urban development concepts which can be used to develop a good mixed-use project.
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Forecasts predict 28% growth in Luxembourg’s population by 2035, not including a significant increase in cross-border workers. How much additional retail space needs to be developed to accommodate this population growth? And is this realistic, given increasing pressure on land use? Read on for our views on the subject and our recommended solutions.
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We’re all dreaming of an economic recovery in a post-Covid world. Recent history shows that after a crisis, there is often an economic boom boosted by consumer spending and technical progress. Should we aspire to such a scenario in the post-Covid era? Yes and no: we’re right to hope for a recovery, but it’s unlikely […]
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According to PwC’s Global Consumer Insights Survey, 36% of urban consumers around the world spent less in 2020. Year-end forecasts in 2019 certainly didn’t predict such a statistic. At that time, 46% of people in Belgium stated their intention to spend more in 2020, for example. In France, consumer spending was predicted to increase by […]
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In a rapidly changing world, it is vital to adopt a long-term vision to ensure that our projects and our society are “future-proof” and sustainable in the long term. In both retail and real estate, digitisation is a key component of this vision and your strategy. With these inspiring examples, we will explain how digitisation […]
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We’ve pointed it out more than once: coronavirus is a real accelerator of trends. Not least because of the profound changes it has caused with regard to consumer habits. The restaurant business is no exception. Here, we look at two phenomena which have been reinforced by the pandemic: home delivery and dark/ghost/cloud kitchens.
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As a disruptive force quite unlike anything before it, the Covid-19 pandemic has been an incredible accelerator around the world. It has encouraged us to think differently and to come up with new solutions to strengthen our resilience. In this article, we look at some inspiring examples of adaptation and conversion in retail and real […]
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The coming winter season will involve a gradual tightening of measures to tackle Covid. Yet for many people, 2020 has already been an economic catastrophe. The retail sector is waiting with bated breath: although it’s too early to accurately estimate the consequences of coronavirus on physical retail in the medium and long term, we can […]
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The coronavirus crisis has highlighted existing problems in the supply chain. Does it herald the end of just-in-time management? The answer is currently unclear but the system will have to adapt to be able to respond to unexpected peaks and the e-commerce boom. There’s no way round it: this will involve creating more urban warehouses, […]
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At the end of lockdown, it became clear that there won’t be a return to the way things used to be any time soon. Firstly, advice on how to avoid the virus is focused on the long term, because Covid-19 is set to be an issue for some considerable time. Secondly, many companies have discovered […]
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We’ve already written an article on the trends which are putting the residential property market under pressure, including changes in households’ size and type, housing prices which are rising faster than wages and an increasing lack of housing caused by demographic factors and slower administrative procedures. How is COVID-19 going to affect these trends?
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In 2018 and 2019, our society began to turn away from hyperconsumerism. Retailers in the Food & Drink industry have managed to benefit from this trend. Today, this sector offers a diverse range of local products with environmental credentials, something which is increasingly important to consumers. This year, the coronavirus pandemic has further accentuated this […]
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After the medical findings, the retail trade findings after the lockdown were up. For some sectors these were worrying, for others promising. Here are 5 trends that were already abundantly present before COVID-19 and that have been decisively reinforced by this new crisis.
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