Reducing Waste

We are retailers serving retailers
supporting our brand partners to achieve their maximum sales potential.

We are tourism professionals
partnering with global tourism leaders to welcome tomorrow’s travelling luxury consumer today.

And we are hosts
welcoming 45 million guests in 2019 who came to shop with us, dine with us, and unwind with us.

A Model That Consistently Generates Growth
From its beginning with Bicester Village in 1995 to 2019, The Bicester Village Shopping Collection
in Europe and China delivered double digit growth in gross sales every year.

Growing International Reach
In 2019 the Collection of Villages in Europe and China attracted 45 million guests.

Value Retail recognises that sophisticated international guests expect continuous investment in the physical premises and in the upgrading of the Villages’ merchandise mix. Each Village benefits from extensive improvement programmes designed by its expert retailing and development teams.

Guests in the Villages can discover an unrivalled selection of leading fashion and lifestyle brands, offering exceptional value for money.

Value Retail’s vision is to serve the world’s leading brands and its sophisticated, international guests with the best luxury outlet experience.

Value Retail’s commitment to hospitality, diversity and creativity is fundamental to the integrity and growth of its business.

Value Retail’s commitment to authenticity strengthens the integrity of Value Retail’s organisational culture, quality of service and provides a strong link with brands, partners, colleagues and guests.

Value Retail has a diverse culture. This promotes an inclusive and stimulating environment in which teamwork and individual contributions flourish.

Value Retail embraces creativity in all aspects of its business. It encourages critical thinking, passion and teamwork to engage all Value Retail colleagues to become active participants in the success of the business.

Most of the time, props are used in visual merchandising within a window display. They don’t have to be expensive, and finding just the right retail window props can be time consuming. One thing is certain, when implemented into a good design, props can help attract foot traffic.

Beyond just aesthetics and enhancing customer mood, gardens and green space around or within a store can fulfil a vital role as meeting places for local customers, offering community services and extending retailer reach beyond shopping.

Beauty really is in the detail here, with small petals and single leaves applied to surfaces manually. Surfaces can be sealed with conventional oils, varnishes or resin coating to ensure they are water, scratch, light and abrasion resistant.

Jesmonite -  The ultimate chameleon material, Jesmonite can replicate virtually any surface, colour or texture. Made from a mineral base and pure water based acrylic resin, it’s an eco-friendly alternative to resin, concrete or plaster. Mixed with other materials such as pigments, ink, metal fillers, to achieve different finishes, it is both durable and waterproof.

Re-board is a versatile and reasonably strong material. It’s particularly useful when print is used, for unusual shapes, or if construction is needed. It also requires very little energy to recycle.

Newspaper Wood reverses a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but from (news)paper to wood. When a Newspaper Wood log is cut, the layers of paper appear like wood grain or growth rings of a tree and therefore resemble the aesthetics of real wood.

Benefits are plentiful. The material has already had an element of circularity and is created using relatively low emission. It is long lasting and not easily damaged. It also has a high quality finish.
This beautiful material may look like terrazzo but it’s actually made from wood chippings. Foresso is a relatively new material composed of timber, wood dust, cement, waste lime plaster, and 0% VOC resin cast onto an 18mm birch plywood substrate.

Foresso have put in place strict rules for their supply chain, sourcing only responsibly and ethically. It has a minimum 75% recycled material sourced from British trees and is FSC Certified. It’s also long wearing with a very high finish.

Greencast® is an extremely high-quality cast acrylic entirely made from 100% recycled consumer acrylic.

It’s the only 100% recycled plastic on the market that has the same qualities as normal acrylic. Comes in a range of different colours and thicknesses. It also takes back used material to be recycled to increase its circularity.

Sustainable plywood can be made from a variety of different woods, with wood being a natural product from a renewable resource. It’s long lasting, very versatile and can be printed on. Recycled easily, it’s also cost effective.

Bamboo fibres are particularly versatile and bamboo can grow without fertilizers or pesticides. Some bamboo materials are 100% biodegradable and the plant itself creates 35% more oxygen when compared to similar plants.

Cost effective and versatile, with a large majority of the materials being biodegradable. Some bamboo plastics have a biodegradable plastic composite too.

Before the industrial revolution, shop mannequins were seen primarily as a behind-the-scenes tool of the trade, designed without heads and used for the practical purposes of dress-fitting and tailoring custom suits. As technological advancements brought about the production of industrially manufactured, off-the-rack clothing, mannequins used for tailoring purposes fell out of widespread use.

Second World War
Owing largely to wartime rationing, mannequins during the Second World War became slimmer and less decorative. To save on resources, they were also made shorter: around 5’3” for women and 5’9” for men. But the wartime period saw more lasting changes, with the first plastic mannequins created by designers Maury Wolf and David Vine.

The Swinging Sixties and seventies

The countercultural movement of the sixties led to mannequins depicting more realistic (albeit still skinny) body forms in realistic postures. There was a return to the stylised elongation of the art deco age—the thinning of limbs and body contours to uphold the stick figure form.

By the advent of the eighties, mannequin design had shifted even further away from anything that resembled a living human. Simon Doonan, former creative director of Barneys, portrayed an especially abstract aesthetic in his fanciful window displays, which featured faceless stylisations and eggheaded designs.

Provide adequate ventilation. This means supplying fresh air to enclosed space where people are present. This can be natural ventilation through windows, doors and vents, mechanical ventilation using fans and ducts, or a combination of both

With sustainability and ever growing subject and more brands trying to limit their impact on the environment we believe we have come up with a sustainable solution to retail props with our proposal.

When researching into ideas we came across an article about  Konoha Mall in Japan, a shopping centre that incorporates sustainability And an eco designs into retail.  Drawing inspiration from its natural surroundings, the development was constructed entirely with locally and regionally-sourced materials, and receives its operating energy from solar panels. The Japanese mall are leading the way when creating a shopping centre that incorporates sustainability and from here is where our community garden idea began.