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Browsing Localism

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Endless West
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Food & Drink

Goa’s alcohol museum bolsters local drinks culture

All About Alcohol is a new museum in the region that aims to preserve India’s alcohol history and elevate interest in the local drinks scene.

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Marketing & Branding

Fashion rental’s future is locally peer-to-peer

Jen Charon, co-founder of Loanhood, explains why local communities and peer-to-peer interactions will drive the future of fashion rental.

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Retail

Stat: Chinese shoppers could snub US goods on Singles’ Day

AlixPartners’ annual Eastern Promise online survey suggests that local brands will dominate this year’s Singles’ Day, with 66% of consumers indicating that they will buy domestic brands rather than foreign products.

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Retail

Foot Locker’s multi-city celebration of basketball

Foot Locker has launched a community programme to elevate local basketball infrastructure in key cities.

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Retail

Nick Brackenbury: NearSt

How to future-proofing local retailers.

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Food & Drink

Alec Lee: Food’s synthetic future

The Ava Winery co-founder on why we should be constructing our food at the molecular level.

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Travel & Hospitality

Airbnb Backlash

The peer-to-peer home rental service's growth is causing friction with both local communities and the hotel industry.

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Retail

Quick read

London – A new digital start-up enables customers to order titles from local bookshops and promises to deliver them within one hour.

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Design

Branch out

Milan – Design studio Sovrappensiero has created a range of customisable homewares designed to be both global and local.