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DIY Trade News November 2013 NEWS SPOTLIGHT COMPANY PROFILE FEATURE REPORT BACK OPINION PRODUCTS SPORT Are you popping up everywhere? By John Stanley Walk down many streets around the world and you will see boarded up shops. This does not mean that retailing is on decline, it means that it is changing. The time poor consumer is now looking for an alternative offer. In the old model of retailing the consumer came to the retailer. This now often means the poor consumer does not have time to drive to the store, park the car and then walk to the store and bring items back to their car. In 2013 the retailer has to go to the consumer and provide them with a convenience offer. The retailer can do this in many ways. The most popular method has been online retailing which has seen significant growth in recent years and continues to develop. The challenge with this style of retailing is that the consumer becomes more price aware as they have no other aspects of the store to build into their retail picture. The other growth area is Pop Up retailing where the retailer can combine convenience with the Chubbsafes has been delivering safes and cabinets for the protection of your cash, valuables, documents and data for over 200 years. Today we know how to combine experience with innovations to create truely reliable secure storage solutions. ELEMENTS AIR experience. We are now seeing a new development in Pop Up retailing. The aim of the retailer is to pop Our new Elements Air Range is Suitable for the home, office and hotel environments. The range includes a specially designed laptop safe with extra width for the storage of portable computers and tablet PCs. The hotel safe is secured by a user-friendly electronic lock with motorised bolt-work and includes features such as master coding, emergency key override and an audit facility. up when and where the consumer either wants you to pop up or to ambush them and pop up when they least expect it. Pop up when they want you to Street food retailers realise that they need to pop up at lunchtime or in the city for the evening if they are Optional Locks to generate sales. Florists often pop up at railway stations during the rush hour, especially in the Air Range Volume Barrier mm Key Electronic External Height Width Depth Internal Height Width Depth Shelves Weight evening. These have been standard retail practices Air10 10L ? ? 200 310 200 195 305 160 - for many years. 26L ? ? 250 350 250 245 345 310 1 14kg AirLaptop 25L ? ? 200 420 350 195 415 310 - 18kg AirHotel 25L ? ? 200 420 350 195 415 310 - 18kg Optional Features 10kg Air15 Boltwork Farmers markets pop up towards the weekend to allow consumers to get their weekly fruit 4mm Steel Door/2mm Steel body - Dual plated steel moving boltwork Management Codes & Audit Trail Facility and vegetables from local growers, yet it is the entrepreneurs that really make a difference. I was recently walking around the city of Dublin in Ireland and discovered a waste piece of land in the city centre that will be built on in the near future. In the meantime it has been converted, by a local group of volunteers, into a Pop Up public park. This is no ordinary park though. It has been developed with materials that the local residents could basically pick up for free in the neighbourhood. On my visit it was crowded; the volunteers had built a pallet arena which was being organised for an evening Wadeville T: +27 (0)11 878 2300 E: [email protected] Cape Town T: +27 (0)21 931 9315 E: [email protected] Durban T: +27 (0)31 579 2950 E: [email protected] Bloemfontein T: +27 (0)51 432 8236 E: [email protected] Chubbsafes is a brand of the Gunnebo Security Group which is present in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. With years of experience delivering security solutions, Gunnebo has unrivalled expertise in secure storage, pedestrian and vehicle entrance control,cash handling and service. Gunnebo’s solutions protect people, buildings and property, providing security for you, your employees and your customers. Chubbsafes – Chubb is a registered trademark owned by Chubb plc and used under license Untitled-1 1 2013/09/19 04:53:28 PM 73