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Food & Drink

Noma re-opens in Copenhagen with micro-seasons menus

Acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant Noma has re-opened with a new leadership team and a dining format built around 12 monthly micro-seasons, following its Los Angeles residency earlier this year.

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Food & Drink

Digital Clout Dining

A new wave of Indian restaurants is reshaping fine dining through limited-access menus, founder storytelling and digital scarcity, transforming meals into moments of cultural capital for Gen Z and Millennial diners.

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Retail

Stat: Local strolling beats social scrolling for Gen Z and Millennials

A new American Express Shop Small Impact Study reveals that younger consumers are rediscovering businesses not through social media, but by simply exploring their neighbourhoods.

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Fashion

The Rise of the C-Store

Brands are re-appraising the convenience store sector, viewing this once low-key retail channel as a valuable, authentic backdrop for launches, brand takeovers and promotions.

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Culture & Media

The Future of Travel Publishing

New magazine Sablos aims to build an anti-TripAdvisor so travellers can truly eat, drink and live like a local. LS:N Global speaks to its founder Saul Taylor.

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Food & Drink

African Spirits Market

After the market slowed, African spirits producers are leaning towards local ingredients, culture and tradition to put their drinks on the world stage.

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Retail

Next-door Commerce

Having re-engaged with their local communities, neighbours are inspiring new retail models based on hyper-local trading and sharing of goods.

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Marketing & Branding

This Google office captures New Zealand’s Indigenous heritage

The technology giant has partnered with Indigenous communities for a workplace in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Culture & Media

Content platform RLT+ champions local German media

German streaming service TV Now has been reborn as all-inclusive media platform RTL+.