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and escorted shopping in order to lend remarkable and memorable experience in store. Combined with product sampling in order to reward the customer and several such innovations to indulge the traveller. RETAIL EXPERIENCE What impact did it have on global travellers? NV: The store animations enable us to associate several brands with different products and thus simplify the traveller’s journey and help them with their purchasing decisions. This helped reinforce BuY Paris Duty Free’s image and contribute to making it become a definitive and true offer ensuring good brand recall. Where are the travel retail opportunities for Retail Access? How does this manifest itself? NV: We created 360° animations which take into account all product categories and customer journeys for Buy Paris Duty Free. Our in-store marketing plan includes creation of themes, merchandising tools, visual atmospheres that attract the global traveller of today. They of course have a commercial agenda - accompanied shopping, hostessing NV: London, Paris and Amsterdam are the Europe hotspots, but the excessiveness and exciting new airport developments in the Middle East and Asia are a wonderful opportunity for agencies like us. Tomorrow’s hotspots will be the emerging countries that are developing tourism infrastructures. Retail Access has developed a strong expertise and positioning in order to best answer traffic zones and travel retail issues. At the crossroads between brands, retailers and F&B beverages operators, we offer a global overview, aligning visibility, aesthetic and performance objectives in one approach. Having created brand corners for L’Oréal, Diageo, Dior and TR, won calls for tenders (rail stations and airports) for major F&B operators such as SSP, we aspire to work with several TRAVEL RETAIL BY DESIGN other travel retail players. Design insight These animations must take into account all product categories and all customer flows for Buy Paris Duty Free stores with a strong commercial vocation: hostessing in order to favour the experience in store or even sampling in order to reward the customer. Business impact Nicolas Venturini is General Manager of Retail Access France & Benelux. After graduating from business school with an MBA in Marketing, Nicolas went on to join the Marketing department of a leading soccer team of the Premier League, Fulham Football Club. As a football fanatic, he not only won a place on the team, he became its Captain five years later. He brings the same vitality, leadership and team building spirit to his role as General Manager. Nicolas specializes in Category Management, Retail Architecture and store branding, making sure business goals and creative vision are always in harmony and scoring wins for client and the human – the shopper. CASE STUDY This helped reinforce Buy Paris Duty Free’s image and contribute to making it become a true brand. These animation corners enable us to associate several brands with different products and thus simplify the traveller’s journey and help him in his purchasing decision. Brief Retail Access has been briefed to develop the in-store marketing plan on behalf of BuY Paris Duty Free brand. The project includes the creation of multiple assets: themes, merchandising tools, visual atmospheres, commercial mechanisms, while taking into account Travel Retail customer’s unique behavioral and shopping habits. Our mission is to give momentum to Buy Paris Duty Free brand, taking into account a double objective: upgrading the brand image and ensuring commercial performance. Project challenge Imagine and develop 360° animations: Scenography, Product Discovery, Interactivity, Events, Experience & Services. 12 GLOBAL INFLUENCER GLOBAL INFLUENCER 13