On Monday afternoon came the news we had all been waiting for: UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, unveiled his plan for exiting the national lockdown. According to the four-step plan, which is subject to continual review, non-essential retail will be allowed to reopen from 12 April, together with outdoor serving in pubs and restaurants...
Love it or hate it - all Londoners have a close relationship with the capital’s iconic Oxford Street. It is renowned and, in many cases, revered among shoppers, day-trippers, local office workers, tourists and global brands, and not to mention a huge contributor to the UK economy – or at least it was. It...
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Paid, Earned, Shared and Owned media? Would you like to know more about what an integrated approach to marketing would mean for your project? Are you paying for marketing and want to understand how to measure success? Have a listen as Innesco MD Dan Innes gives...
No one can deny the challenges for a pandemic-driven retail environment in 2020 were unparalleled. A stronger than forecast increase in ecommerce saw seven years growth in nine months, and such change in retail has exposed existing weaknesses, accelerated emerging trends and forced structural change. A clear bi-product of this has been the emergence of...
The pandemic has brought with it unprecedented challenges, and the property sector has had to continually endure obstacles to persevere through the last 10 months. Through monitoring consumer movement and sentiment, CACI has observed several key trends, that have thrown the balance for pre-pandemic use of space. What we’ve seenThe safety first consumer: we are...
At the time of writing, the @Telegraph is reporting on the eviction of Extinction Rebellion protestors from a 100 ft network of tunnels underneath Euston Station. The activists, protesting against the environmental impact of the new HS2 railway network, are likely to be dealt with swiftly but the UK government’s flagship infrastructure project faces plenty of additional threats...
Once upon a time a store was the only place where you could make a sale – and the only arena in which you could measure the commercial value and impact of a brand. Today, retail has changed. The process that began before the pandemic has inevitably been accelerated over the last year. This...
The inaugural Big Picture piece of this year, written by our founder and MD @DanInnes, was all about the office – and sparked a debate among our readers about the demand for office space in the future. This week, Unilever, one of the UK’s largest companies, became the latest to announce that it will “never” go back to...
“Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more” – but it’s Boris not Shakespeare telling us to hunker down and work from home ‘one more time’ in some sort of Daft Punk rhetoric. He describes parts of this third UK Lockdown as a sprint to the finish line not a marathon, as a vaccination...
2020 is edging towards a close. At the end of what has surely been one of the most disruptive years for real estate on record, it seems fitting that we use these final couple of working weeks to envisage the positive change we want to see for the sector in the year ahead. Of...
