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Brand—Space

The impact of branding on physical space and the importance of creating an experience. Branded space, in the form of shops, museums, cafés and restaurants have an effect on us everyday. This study will look at the impact of physical space – how it can influence us and how it shapes our perceptions of brands and places. Including case studies from around the world and interviews with industry professionals.

The impact of branding on physical space and the importance of creating an experience. Branded space, in the form of shops, museums, cafés and restaurants have an effect on us everyday. This study will look at the impact of physical space – how it can influence us and how it shapes our perceptions of brands and places. Including case studies from around the world and interviews with industry professionals.

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Fig. 5.1 Starbucks<br />

Express London<br />

24<br />

https://www.<br />

bloomberg.com/news/<br />

articles/2016-12-01/<br />

starbucks-schultz-will-stepdown-as-ceo-replacedby-johnson<br />

25<br />

Norwood, C. (2016)<br />

Interview with Chris<br />

Killeen and John<br />

McDermott AVB Brand,<br />

Belfast<br />

26<br />

Ehmann, S., Klanten,<br />

R., and Borges, S., (2013)<br />

Workscape: new<br />

spaces for new work.<br />

Berlin: Gestalten.<br />

unprecedented and it continues to dominate.<br />

Bloomberg reported that, ‘the company has used<br />

its mobile application and other tech services<br />

to fuel sales in recent years’ and this positions<br />

it, ‘ahead of its peers, allowing it to serve more<br />

customers faster’ (Bloomberg, 2016) and this<br />

surely has a positive effect on customers because<br />

they get their coffee faster. A recent change in<br />

CEO too is to do with Starbucks’ shift in focus<br />

to expanding its Reserve Roasteries as well<br />

as their new Reserve retail stores, which is<br />

their ‘new upscale brand’. 24 See Figure 5.2,<br />

a compilation of headlines when searching for<br />

Starbucks on the website DesignWeek.co.uk,<br />

we see how the company is experimenting,<br />

innovating, reinventing but most importantly<br />

with all these ideas, is creating experiences.<br />

Something that big brands are doing now<br />

that Chris Killeen, brand director at AVB Brand,<br />

talks about in an interview when discussing<br />

pop-up stores, is they can be used to tailor a<br />

personalised experience for a customer to ‘reduce<br />

the perceived scale of a brand’ using Nike as an<br />

example when a brand gets so big it needs to look<br />

for small niche markets to remain relevant to say,<br />

‘look what we can do, we can relate to you’. 25<br />

And so by developing a smaller more focused<br />

high-end product and service they can shape<br />

themselves to look like a local independent store<br />

without a big corporate image getting in the way.<br />

This change in thinking can be linked to modern<br />

living, as discussed in detail in Workspace – New<br />

spaces for new work, ‘People are living differently,<br />

working differently and shopping differently so<br />

the retail landscape needs to change too.’ 26<br />

John McDermott notes how all big brands<br />

e.g. Google, are creating a social place to work in,<br />

something that is becoming company culture<br />

(to be comfortable) with the need to make it feel<br />

like you want to be there, something that is very<br />

much applicable to retail. Also discussing how<br />

important staff is as an element of branding.

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