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Nomination in POPAI Awards Paris for Nestlé’s Home Café
In this year's POPAI Awards Paris 2022, our project for the Starbucks and Nescafé Dolce Gusto brands was nominated in the category of permanent POS - food and beverage. The display won the Food category in the Czech POPAI Awards 2021. We created a shop in shop called...
Tssst! Mattoni attracts attention to its novelties with its new POS
This year, as part of the sales expositions, Mattoni bet on original iridescent displays and pallet displays.
New POS Tullamore D.E.W. shows what Irish barbecue means
Barbecue simply belongs to summer. Hardly anybody can refuse the sun’s rays, whiskey, and well-prepared meat.
Ondrášovka in a new jacket is also changing its display in the sales area
The producer of one of the oldest Czech mineral waters – Ondrášovka, the company Kofola ČeskoSlovensko, has invested in technologies that think about nature protection and reflect the demanding requirements for sustainability.
Hisense Group presents two new shop-in-shops in the latest Alza showroom
Interesting project for customers of the Alza showroom in Chrášťany, Prague, presents white and black goods from the MORA and Hisense brands.
“Cirkulka” by Kofola reflects sustainability in the production of POS
Kofola ČeskoSlovensko has introduced its traditional drinks Kofola, Vinea, and Rajec in returnable bottles to the retail network this year.
DAGO has expanded with a new assembly hall in record time
New job orders require new and larger premises – that is why in April we opened a new assembly hall, which is located just a short distance from our Headquarters in Zdice.
Birell Světlý represents a new recipe after 30 years
How to inform customers that Birell Světlý represents an improved recipe after thirty years?
Displays for paints by AkzoNobel Coatings CZ: New every year, yet maximally sustainable
Three years ago, we produced, at first glance, ordinary metal displays for the company AkzoNobel, which sells decorative paints. Since then, we have been working with them regularly.
Fascination by technologies has faded and the authenticity “leads the dance” now
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From our visit at the Trade Fair Globalshop, it was clear that the digital technologies adoration cooled down.
The Trade Fair Globalshop, which moved back to Chicago this year, radiated noticeably less enthusiasm from digital technologies, artificial intelligence and virtual reality compared to the previous two years. Their presentation was negligible similarly as at the parallel Trade Fair MPV in Paris. In the retail communication, on the other hand, there has dominated a calm authenticity and an essential effort for the best possible customer experience based on a quality in-store design.
While going through one of the two world´s largest in-store communication shows, visitors could not overlook the effort of its organizers to provide multisensory experience worthy the presented in-store solutions. Within the exhibition hall, there were spread pleasant fragrances changing along the path and surprising all the time; and the aisles among the expositions were “lined up” with high carpets with a pleasant touch.
We were attracted especially by expositions with original realizations for the HORECA segment, for which our market is desperately lacking.
Also P.O.P. media with original details got attention, for example a rope decorating a top card of a display, metal bars creating edges of shelves of a cardboard display or a quasi-3D effect print. A hologram system on a practical simple stand, for example for application into a P.O.P. display was also interesting.
Traditionally, we could see that the American market can sustain also highly specialized companies. There were exhibiting for example specialists in magnets, locks, locking mechanisms or wheels usable for P.O.P. media.
Like at the Paris Trade Fair Marketing Point de Vente (MPV), also in Chicago, there was placed emphasis on interactive education, for example through the training visual merchandising principles. In Paris, it was for example couching of in-store communication strategies, suggestions and realizations.
Asian suppliers were exhibiting in USA to a much greater extent than in Paris. However, the level of their assortment was, as usual, very low or even poor compared to European manufacturers. Only their proactivity and ability to communicate in English improved. Their numerous representation proves the intense effort of the “Shop! Global” Association to attract new members from Asia and interconnect them with the North American market.
Shop! OMA Awards
Part of the Trade Fair was also an all-American national competition “Shop! OMA Awards”, within which the world´s best P.O.P. projects competed in one place. Also this year, these projects have demonstrated the ability of their creators to progress in their creativity, originality and WOW effect.
While in Paris, there excelled mostly realizations from the cosmetics and beauty categories, in Chicago, the most attractive and, at the same time, the most dominant expositions were from the FMCG categories, especially alcoholic beverages, food and electro. For example, the combination of a cardboard temporary solution of a display with applied digital/sensory movement technology was unconventional.
The trend of the competition was also a shift towards natural materials and their imitations or use of 3D applications and enlargements.
This year, we were not surprised by traditional harmonic P.O.P. compositions of the packaging, product and P.O.P. media and their combinations created interesting scenography
Customer experience in the Chicago concept
When visiting Chicago stores, it was impossible not to notice the “ubiquitous obsession for positive customer experience”. It is not exception that directly at the entrance to the store, customers are being welcomed by its “manager” asking them to evaluate their purchase when they leave the store. If an error occurs, for example, if a customer waits longer for his/her order, he/she is literally forced to take a compensation, for example in the form of a dessert or coupon for the next purchase.
Among the visited stores, we were most interested by the supermarket Whole Foods Market near Michigan Avenue, which connects the retail space with a stylich café where customers can consume also excellent ready to eat products purchased here. In the store itself, fragrances of handmade soaps blends pleasantly with freshly ground coffee. You can choose from many pick & mix islands.
Pleasant staff is not only smiling but also helps to put your purchased goods into bags. Everything looks honest, clear and well-arranged, both at the individual level and as a whole. The WFM store can communicate and please customer´s senses without distracting or detaining him/her inappropriately. This is certainly an example of very good in-store concept, in which you don´t perceive time and look forward to your next visit.
Daniel Jesenský a Martin Vorel
DAGO