Update: Not yet launched, Monocle’s Summer Weekly is already profitable.
Far from being a mere passion project, this is targeting a timely business opportunity – and they’ve got a clear idea of who their target customer is (and where they’re often found in August).
Scoop: Monocle to release new weekly newspaper on select shelves this August.
We’d heard rumors for several months that a new weekly by the publisher was in the works. In Berlin, editors Andrew Tuck and Tyler Brûlé revealed what they’ve been working on these last few months.
‘The Future of Retail’: Highlights from the best panel at last month’s Monocle conference in Berlin.
In Berlin, Storefront’s Mohamed Haouache, Perfumer H’s Lyn Harris, and Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson brought the house down in a cracking, back-and-forth debate on what the future holds for high-end retail.
On our radar: Vello folding bikes, found at last month’s Monocle conference in Berlin.
Several compelling brands and businesses were put on our radar at the Monocle conference in Berlin last month, but it was Austrian cycle enterprise, Vello, that stayed top of mind for us.
Ana Andjelic: Legacy retailers define strategy in competitive terms. Retail upstarts define it in terms of their customer.
To successfully compete in today’s customer-first context, retailers have to start thinking beyond incremental innovation. They must become comfortable with new models that cannibalize their business as it is right now.
Back in 2015, WWD unknowingly signaled the end of Style.com. Turns out they were spot on.
After much fanfare, waiting, and pomp and circumstance, Style.com was relaunched…and then promptly shut down this week. We’d be lying if we said this was a shocker. (885 words)
Kyle Chayka: Apolis, Monocle, and the branding of the ‘Placeless Aesthetic’.
Mobility and rootlessness have become aspirational touchpoints––waves that some brands, like Apolis and the experimental LOT-2046, are all too happy to ride. (833 words)
Tyler Brûlé’s retail projections: Bullish on Walmart, bearish on Farfetch.
On the back of Walmart’s aggressive e-commerce acquisition spree, and Farfetch’s newfangled Store of the Future concept, we spoke with the Monocle man about why US and European retail is failing, how it can be fixed, and why the Japanese still to get it right. (1,267 words)
Brilliant: There’s a Swiss grocery chain moonlighting as a gym.
Tomatoes and treadmills don’t appear to be a natural mix, but one Swiss grocer has perfected the recipe. (277 words)