Retail Environments:

attendees. That panel also includes Ken Nisch of JGA, Harry Cunningham of Saks and David Meyer of Target. You can find more on the session here.

So what were the trends at EuroShop? I’ve pulled together a few preliminary impressions.

As always, the lighting hall was one of the more inspiring spaces. LED lighting was everywhere this year. In particular, LEDs were used in fixtures and shelving to highlight product displays.

Sustainability was not a major theme
of the show, but it seemed to play a role in
most of the exhibits. It was almost as if it
has become a requirement, rather than an
option.

Video from EuroShop See activity from Grottini’s booth, from the first day of the show.

effects in your stores? Both were shown and generated lots of interest.

Nowhere will you find more mannequins and forms than at EuroShop. They even had an area called “Mannequin City.” One of the more obvious design trends was the use of bright colors, particularly red and blue.

Although I didn’t see them, I’m told there was a talking mannequin, and a mannequin that had small cameras in the eye area that captured information on the person standing in front of it.