Publications
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6 months after China’s Travel Ban: Situation of the Korean Luxury Market
It’s been 6 months since the Chinese retaliation on Korea’s deployment of THAAD. Over the past 6-month period, the travel ban on Chinese group tours to Korea has hit on the domestic travel and travel retail industries. What is the status today? In this article, ACDL shares some key figures and insights on the latest happenings and trends for Korea domestic travel retail.
October 2017
How to integrate digital format to effectively engage your learners?
In the current highly competitive market, empowering your workforce through learning is a key competitive advantage to ensure the best personalized customer experience. Integrating digital format help you to engage your learners without limitations of time and space. In this article, ACDL provides key insights about how to choose the best format, how to improve learning with digital and how to go further with digital by developing social interactions and augmented reality.
September 2017
Why is e-learning critical to your Sales Associates?
Do you need to transfer knowledge to a large number of your staff, whenever and wherever they need it, in their native language? Do you want to ensure a continuous learning process of your sales associates? E-learning would be a smart solution, quick to implement. In this article, ACDL uses its consulting experience to share with you the benefits of using e-learning, the several options to choose from, and the ways you can include it in your Learning & Development strategy.
April 2017
2017 The Mainland Chinese Travel Retail study
The top luxury consumers, the Mainland Chinese, remain the major travelling and spending nationality within Travel Retail. To open up an array of opportunities for travel retailers, it is then critical to maintain up-to date knowledge about the Mainland Chinese travelers. For the second year, we sought to understand their evolving traveling and shopping behaviors, expectations and desire for the future.
March 2017
Magazines
Retail Performance Asia #5
Our latest edition covers three main topics dealing with the evolving environment of retail in Asia. We investigate how luxury brands have integrated digital touchpoints in their brands' strategies. We analyse the evolution of the perception of the luxury shopping experience among Mainland Chinese shoppers during the past three years. We also share our thoughts about where Chinese tourists will buy this fall/winter.
December 2016
Retail Performance Asia #4
In this edition, we cover key topics dealing with the evolving environment of retail in Asia. We highlight the best practices to entertain Greater China's Generation Y. We also look at the challenges brands face in Asia to find, develop and retain talent. We develop a barometer of customer satisfaction and experience of the in-store channel and about how digital becomes a turning point for luxury retail.
September 2015
Retail Performance Asia #3
This magazine focuses on three main topics of retail in Asia. We talk about how China embraces eTailing to meet the rapidly evolving Chinese consumer. We provide consumer insights and tips to strenghten in-store sales and customer loyalty. The last article presents the transition of China's retail model - from wholesale to strategic partnership.
September 2014
Retail Performance Asia #2
This edition deals with three main topics - A survey to highlight how to re-connect with the matured segment of Hong Kong luxury shoppers; the paradox between the importance of shop-floor staff and a high turn over to outline solutions enhancing employee engagement in Asia; and we also share key economic and retail insights on Indonesia to better understand this potential market.
January 2014
Articles
6 months after China’s Travel Ban: Situation of the Korean Luxury Market
It’s been 6 months since the Chinese retaliation on Korea’s deployment of THAAD. Over the past 6-month period, the travel ban on Chinese group tours to Korea has hit on the domestic travel and travel retail industries. What is the status today? In this article, ACDL shares some key figures and insights on the latest happenings and trends for Korea domestic travel retail.
October 2017
How to integrate digital format to effectively engage your learners?
In the current highly competitive market, empowering your workforce through learning is a key competitive advantage to ensure the best personalized customer experience. Integrating digital format help you to engage your learners without limitations of time and space. In this article, ACDL provides key insights about how to choose the best format, how to improve learning with digital and how to go further with digital by developing social interactions and augmented reality.
September 2017
Why is e-learning critical to your Sales Associates?
Do you need to transfer knowledge to a large number of your staff, whenever and wherever they need it, in their native language? Do you want to ensure a continuous learning process of your sales associates? E-learning would be a smart solution, quick to implement. In this article, ACDL uses its consulting experience to share with you the benefits of using e-learning, the several options to choose from, and the ways you can include it in your Learning & Development strategy.
April 2017
HOW WERE TOP TRAVEL DESTINATIONS IMPACTED BY THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT AMONG CHINESE TRAVELERS IN 2016
With a rising purchasing power and greater flexibility in visa policies, the Mainland Chinese remain the top travelers and shoppers overseas this year. Due to the consecutive political & economic events occurring in 2016 - US new presidency, Brexit, terrorist threats, we examined the potential impact on MCTs opinions of top shopping destinations: the US, the UK, France and Hong Kong. This article unveils to what extent Mainland Chinese's travel plans are altered and what their new favored destinations are.
March 2017
Survey
2017 The Mainland Chinese Travel Retail study
The top luxury consumers, the Mainland Chinese, remain the major travelling and spending nationality within Travel Retail. To open up an array of opportunities for travel retailers, it is then critical to maintain up-to date knowledge about the Mainland Chinese travelers. For the second year, we sought to understand their evolving traveling and shopping behaviors, expectations and desire for the future.
March 2017
2016 Shanghai Beauty benchmark
"Where do you stand vs. your competitors?" To provide you an insightful vision of 30+ leading brands in-store performance, we led a survey in Shanghai to track and compare top brands against others in Skincare, Make up and Fragrance. This index gives an overview of the customers' perception of their shopping experience in Shanghai.
August 2016
2016 Hong Kong Beauty benchmark
"Where do you stand vs. your competitors?" To provide you an insightful vision of 30+ leading brands' in-store performance, we led a survey in Hong Kong to track and compare top brands against others in Skincare, Make up and Fragrance. This index gives an overview of the customers' perceptions of their shopping experience in Hong Kong.
August 2016
2016 The Mainland Chinese Travel Retail study
The invisible continent of tax-free shopping embodies true opportunities in today’s multi-channel retail environment. Retailers are vying to capture this fast growing channel in luxury goods, largely derived from the shifting travel and spending behaviors among the top-consuming nationality of luxury goods, the Mainland Chinese. Our survey focuses on defining the Mainland Chinese Traveller’s expectations in Travel Retail, their satisfaction of the retail experience and desires for the future.
April 2016
News & Events
- ‘ACDL: The Academy’, ACDL Learning APP
Our learning mobile app provides tailor-made learning content and quizzes created by ACDL Studio. It offers an engaging and playful learning program through videos, challenges, quizzes, …. and many other pedagogic activities. Available in local language. ACDL:The Academy complies with all international technical requirements.
- 2017 TFWA Digital village exhibition – Cannes, FRANCE
We welcome you at the TFWA exhibition from October 4th to 6th to present our digital solutions for travel retail. Meet us at the Digital village – booth DB.12.
- 2017 The Mainland Chinese Travel Retail study
For the second year in a row, we examined the shifting travel and spending behaviors among the top-consuming nationality of luxury goods, the Mainland Chinese.
- mLearning Development
To provide easy access to product knowledge to one of our client’s retail staff, we developed mLeaming modules.
