PRA 2nd Quarter Newsletter 2013 April-June 2013 | Page 6

Terry Waterhouse is one of the founding Directors of Red Goodss Ltd. a multi-disciplinary design consultancy based in Hong Kong specializing in Retail Design and Implementation Consultancy who are solely focused on Asia Pacific retail market. V Regatta-Golden ABC A remarkable quality that gives RedGoods the edge is that they read and absorb cultures very well. Put it down to experience. Call it empathy. Don’t forget all the research, planning and market testing that they do. Ultimately, perhaps it doesn’t really matter how or why they understand their clients so well - only that they can and that they do. That’s a defining RedGoods’s trait: can-do creativity and good practical and common sense designs for their clients. Successful retailers and clients of tomorrow want to make a difference now by doing it better, faster and smarter than it has been done before. Best advice? Cyan – Moscow Multi Branded Fashion Golden ABC commissioned RedGoods Ltd. to revitalize the Regatta’s brand and store design creating a retail proposition that expands the brand to Sea, Coast, town and country. The first two Regatta stores have been opened at Shangri-La Plaza and SM Aura. isual aesthetics play a crucial contribution in the success of one’s business in the context of interactive presentation of products. First, the interior space is designed in line with the current trends, color, material and graphics. Secondly, the sector is dominated by huge consumer boom in fashion industry, which covers the sales of clothing, accessories and shoes as well as we beauty products. Fashion is a market that is largely dominated by women and is very much an interactive social experience perceived by many as a day out. Environmental patterns and features that are gratifying to the senses create an aesthetic   experience to one’s linear perspective. It isn’t just instinct or intuition or bolts from the blue. It grows out of hard, tangible facts about the real world, retail clients, their markets and their brands. L.V.B. Ltd. Commissioned RedGoods Ltd. to design and develop a new multi fashion brand and interior store design to fit a 400 sq. m. store that incorporated their new big idea of a fashion zone, by providing a fashion consultant that would provide advice to clients, mixing and matching brands, and converting the customer in to the fashion hero’s of the store by creating a multi media platform to photographic and capture the customer in their new fashion items and broadcasting the customers images in the store on LCD screens and through social media. Both projects demonstrate good examples of practical and innovative retail design solutions, which have developed or reinvented a brand idea for today’s booming fashion market.     Follow the universal principles of pleasure in design.   RETAIL GIANTS CONVERGE AT NRCE 2013. The 22nd National Retail Conference and Stores Asia Expo (NRCE) 2013 - organized by the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA), the country’s biggest organization of top notch retailers and prime movers in the retail industry - lived up to its billing as the most important and grandest retail industry event in the country as it was attended by almost a thousand top executives of retail giants in the local and international markets. Senator Cynthia Villar (4th from right), a real estate magnate and retailer (Starmall), opens the Stores Asia Expo 2013 on Wednesday at the SMX Convention Center with PRA Vice President Arthur Coronel (4th from left); chief executive officer of Cinderella Marketing Corporation; NRCE 2013 overall chair Atty. Paul Santos (3rd from left), president of Picture City; Former Chairman, A.S. Watson Group of Hong Kong Ian Wade (3rd from right); Bb. Pilipinas - Universe 2013 Ariella Arida (2nd from right); Bb Pilipinas – International Bea Rose Santiago (right); Bb. Pilipinas 1st Runner Up Pia Wurtzbach (left); and Bb Pilipinas – Tourism Joanna Cindy Miranda (2nd from left). Stores Asia Expo 2013 is a twin event of the national retail conference. The NRCE 2013 is supported by The SM Store, Fisher Mall, Robinsons Malls and Festival Mall, with Ayala Malls, Meralco, Araneta Center, PLDT Alpha, Wilcon Depot, Celine, Bench, The Generics Pharmacy and HP.