Blogs and columns
In this section:
Guest Blog
In this section, we will cover a range of topics from across the retail and hospitality industries, as seen through the eyes of the industry's movers and shakers.
16 May 2012Retail Economist
In a time of almost unprecedented financial upheaval, it's never been more important to unpick the reality and relevance behind the economic headlines to retailers.
04 July 2011Sector Focus
Every now and again we turn the spotlight on a specific sector or sub-sector of the retail or hospitality industries. In these articles we talk to key players about their strategy, their successes and the savvy that's kept them buzzing in a difficult market.
01 July 2011International Retail
On tour with our resident VM retail specialist, Karl McKeever, looking at some of the world's great cities and great retail destinations.
29 June 2011Destination Retail
With high street stores coming under tremendous pressure from the internet, retailers and shopping centres alike are having to up their game in order to attract cash-strapped consumers. This section looks at attempts, both successful and less so, to push the outside of the retail envelope...as it were.
29 June 2011Fashion and Lifestyle
Insight, comment , trends and opinion from inside the world of fashion and fashion recruitment.
27 June 2011Basement Jack
Initially focussing upon the irritations within the world of work, our mystery malcontent has since broadened his gaze to a myriad of wind-ups from every walk of life.
08 June 2011Etail
Some of the most innovative developments within the retail and hospitality sectors are occuring online, with commercial potential limited only by the imagination of the e-commerce tsars. In these articles we launch a probe into cyberspace.
11 May 2011


