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Retail innovation, not only is rearranging new distribution and sales models but is also transforming physical stores, which have long struggled to remain operational after the advent of the digital age and offer an interesting experience for customers. Creating one’s personalized bicycle, sweater or bag online and then completing the purchase in store, exploring assortments on the Internet but staying inside the store, playing basketball inside a store that sells shoes. These are now overt signs that denote not only an operational change of the “classic store” but express new needs and concepts that are more functional to demand. Indeed, experiencing designer products in an apartment-showroom, being greeted by salespeople ready to use all the technologies at their disposal,…

In2020, the capitalization of the wealthy withstood the blow of the pandemic. In 2021 it increased significantly with particular prominence in the real estate segment. The growth rate of the richest population sees the United States in first place, followed by the UK, France, Japan and mainland China. The approximately 130,000 new billionaires in the last 2 years are under 40 years old and more than 95 percent are self-made with very different tastes and habits if compared to the “traditional” super rich. Their concepts of investing in real estate are multi-geographical, meaning investments in different geographical areas of the world. Special attention to the amenities that different areas can offer, appreciation for large open areas suitable for socialization, sports, integration of nature and urbanization. High propensity for redevelopment of properties and their spaces. In all this, the so-called Luxury segment of real estate is not expected to go downhill even for the next two or three years as the authoritative experts at Knight Frank estimate,…

Panattoni, Europe’s largest deployer of institutional capital and developer in the industrial and logistics real estate sector, has completed the biggest zoned land deal ever done in the Swedish market. Panattoni, Europe’s largest deployer of development capital in the industrial and logistics real estate sector, has completed the biggest zoned land deal ever done in the Swedish market with the SEK 3.1 billion (c. €300 million) acquisition of seven sites totalling 121.3 ha in the region of Stockholm and Skåne. The vendor was Kilenkrysset, a Swedish family-owned real estate owner and developer. The land has the zoning permits and potential to develop 661,450 sqm of logistics gross lettable area (GLA), for an estimated total investment of more than SEK 10 billion (c. €1.0 billion). Robert Dobrzycki, CEO & Co-Owner Panattoni Europe and India, said:…

Investing in real estate with the goal of making a living through renting and putting it to income is now a financial activity that needs preparation, expertise and excellent intuition starting with what and where to buy or redevelop. The process is not trivial when approached with rationality and prudence as any business activity requires. For the small private investor, the starting point is often to consider the use of a certain amount of disposable money or a wealth of real estate received in inheritance. The most recurring, not to say naïve, dream is to be able to live off of rents all the time, but provided that the minimum threshold of available real estate capital is now at least 1.5 million euro…

The future development of retail will be increasingly characterized by the presence of so-called — “intelligent” products. The ability to interact and dialogue with the consumer, as well as the power to discreetly observe behaviors and sentiment of individuals, will lead to improve the efficiency of the customization of the overall offer in the retail sector and its added value, achievable thanks to the use of new technologies. It is foreseeable that the increase in the use of advanced technological instruments will be recorded, in addition to the health and manufacturing sectors, precisely in the retail sector. The trend is not only accelerating towards the external market but also towards the internal market of human tasks of large retailers where many of them will be automated in the next short period. Observers and players are aware that Artificial Intelligence is at the basis of the future “Business Revolution”, estimated at 15 trillion dollars as the economic contribution to the world economy by 2030 (source: Rao; Panetta), but about 60% of companies have not yet identified precise strategies and implementation methods for these new technologies…

All’inizio del 1900, le avanguardie si distinguono per le loro posizioni rivoluzionarie: il rifiuto delle accademie e di ogni forma artistica “tradizionale”, un nuovo concetto di “arte per tutti”, l’uso di nuovi materiali “poveri” ed inconsueti (quali ritagli di giornale, pezzi di cartone, fili di ferro, stoffe), perfino nuove motivazioni (anche “commerciali”) per la produzione artistica. Ma tutte queste innovazioni hanno origini che vanno ricercate più lontano nel tempo, fino alla seconda metà del 1800. I grandi cambiamenti sociali, la rivoluzione industriale, l’avvento di una nuova ricca classe dominante, la borghesia, che prende il posto della decaduta e squattrinata nobiltà, sono tutti fenomeni che preparano il terreno alla rivoluzione culturale rappresentata da nuovi movimenti artistici che si affermano in Europa con nomi diversi ma tutti ascrivibili, come caratteristiche e periodo, alla Belle Epoque. Nascono le “Arti Decorative Applicate” …