Bon voyage and bravo to our co-founder Dr Glyn Brokensha, who is one of the lucky few, chosen to join the 18th World Retail Study Tour, hosted by Westfield.
Opportunities abound for Expr3ss! to bring new thinking and new ideas to our software for our retail customers – and our other customers are sure to benefit too.
Who knows what Glyn will find in the funky, edgy SoHo stores in New York City, or in the established, luxury Upper East Side emporia of Fifth Avenue? Not to mention retail across the river in Brooklyn.
His imagination will be fired up in his home town, when he returns to London to explore the absolutely fabulous Harvey Nichols, or the precincts around Regent, Oxford and Bond Streets. Then there are the inside insights with Westfield London and Stratford.
From there, a mix of multi-storey department stores and boutiques in the country of the world’s great retailers and traders in the course of history, Amsterdam. Glyn can then shout out “Ich bin ein Berliner”, and explore the capital of the commercial juggernaut that is Germany. What might he find in Potsdamer Platz or KaDeWe, or even in the new and exotically-named mall, Bikini Berlin? Bring it on!
The tour heads towards Australia via the shopping mecca of Tokyo where he’ll visit the retail department store with the highest turnover in the world – Isetan – as well as gorgeous Ginza and a host of other edgy, groovy and extreme retail opportunities.
All part of the constant R&D to keep Expr3ss! at the pointy end of being the staff selection system of choice!
All in 17 days? Go Glyn!
Ch33rs!