Altavia Group and Altavia SINA Retail: your global partner for local retail excellence.
Founded in 1983, Altavia Group activate our client’s retail across 45 markets in North America, Europe, EMEA and Asia.
In Japan, we collaborate with Altavia SINA Retail, benefiting from15 years of retail design and project management with leading luxury brands and qualified sourcing in China. This partnership, combined with our four decades of expertise, allows Altavia Japan to deliver the best of international practices together with the Japanese high standards in retail.
We offer cost-efficient, sustainable end-to-end solutions for retailers and brands, working locally and with headquarters to validate designs, implement purchasing strategies, and succeed in sales and marketing.
Depending on your needs, we source internally within Japan, regionally, or globally through our 70+ Business Units worldwide.
Altavia Japan also acts as an integrator, managing existing suppliers or sourcing new ones. Our extensive partner network supports every step of your retail space lifecycle, from measurements to installation, ensuring robust retail presence throughout Japan.
If you’re searching for a partner who can offer services along the full chain of retail services with an international dimension yet local know-how, having at heart to support your in your business and brand equity, from both a costing and creative standpoint, our team is ready to exceed your expectations. Reach out to us and let’s discuss. Reach out to us and let’s discuss!
Depending on the scope and service, we manage internally or working with partner, fitting our offer to your budget and needs with agility.
We have an extensive network of partners locally, with internal know-how to manage projects. We also have excellent teams of designers and architects specialised in the retail space in our other entities servicing what we call “NEW STORE“.
– What is “NEW STORE”? It is one of the 4 key business lines within the Altavia Group, and we work together in a matrix to get the best of each Altavia entity worlwide. In Asia, beyond Japan, this starts with our retail design and creative teams in Shanghai, Hong-Kong or Indonesia – but our internal network reaches to Europe or the EMEA with expertise in both domestic retail and travel retail.
– International expertise: Leveraging the other business units in the Altavia Federation enables us to bring you quickly the best of international expertise while staying in the budget. Our local team directs and poses the premisis to ensure that our proposal are suited to the Japanese market and its formats or regulations.
– Retail Sotre Design: We can also manage integration of local design partners or your own vendors under one umbrella, supporting your purchasing to optimise costing while we simplify the life of your marketing.
– What makes us different? Altavia manages a network of suppliers in Asia, many of whom are directly audited by key international brand players. While we also source locally, we often achieve better cost-efficiency by sourcing from China.
Additionally, we prioritize high-quality processes and rigorous quality control (QC), and we enforce corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards with our partners.
Retail Store Design Concept: Adaptation and Innovation
Our retail store design services encompass a wide array of solutions to meet the dynamic needs of today’s retail landscape.
With Altavia SINA Retail (based in Shanghai) as our daily partner in retail services, we see the importance of working with brand headquarters to understand your concepts and approve the best materials for production. With the growing importance of Asian markets, concepts are now often first developed for China, or pilot programs are initiated in Japan.
We support you not only in resizing or adapting your design to the local constraints, but we help you in the dialog between your market and your brand to develop new concepts with consistency.
Whether your focus is ROI (Return on Investment), awareness building or market testing, we can help you localise the global design to the local retail or your airport branded store, but also create new approaches for pop-up stores. Our local team can work together with you to provide the best approach to your retail chanels, whether department stores, event venus, premium malls or drugstores for instance.
Key Service Areas:
– Market-Specific Adaptation: Our design concepts are tailored to fit cultural relevance and appeal.
– Diverse Retail Channels: We adapt our designs to various retail channels such as boutiques, counters, road shows, pop-up stores, consumer products retail.
– Strategic Location Integration: We consider the location and surrounding environment to propose marketing solutions that will best optimise your retail space.
– Merchandising and Engineering Expertise: Leveraging our team’s experience, we provide merchandising strategies and engineering solutions to enhance the retail space.
– We are integrators: we partner with your purchasing to procure suitable economic solutions from start to end of life, with also strong care for sustainability.
Contact us today to discuss how we can transform your retail vision into a localised and human-oriented reality.
Retail Project Management, construction and installation services
We keep the focus on your budget and timeline, answering with proactivity to your challenges.
Our Comprehensive Services:
Project Management: From start to finish. Our teams ensure every detail aligns with your vision for a flawless retail design store experience, managing the operational flow from production to installation to end of life.
Prototyping and Production: Working closely with Japan’s regulatory standards, we manage prototype development and production processes, ensuring compliance and superior quality in every aspect. For instance, our suppliers in China are long time partners who have been working with us for export and travel retail. We work together on material selection, QC processes including export packing, and provide all the necessary certificates such as JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards) in the case of Japan. We welcome our clients to visit the factory to validate projects as well.
Shipping: We work with several international shipping companies ensuring high standard for the shipment of production when importing your fixture from abroad. We can adjust the incoterms to your needs to limit risks and cost impact.
Quality Control and Installation Security: Our team in Japan works closely with our team in the production market, and with the local installers to ensure a flowless project execution. This includes providing QC upon arrival in Japan for instance, but also the guarantee that we assure ongoing maintenance post-installation, maintaining your retail environment’s integrity.
Qualitative Monitoring: We maintain rigorous qualitative monitoring across all projects, ensuring excellence at every stage of your retail design store journey.
Get in touch today to discuss how we can help you manage your project flows as one-stop shop.
Visual Merchandising (VM) Services for the retail
Once your retail store is built, keeping it alive and dynamic is essential.
When we help you design your retail space, VM will be a key component of our design approach. It is essential to maintain and update the VM regularly based on local insights. This ensures not only visual appeal and brand equity but also optimizes the return on investment (ROI).
Our Services Include:
Retail Audits: We conduct thorough retail audits across different markets, ensuring your store design aligns with local preferences and market dynamics.
Installation and Relocation Services: From initial installation to seamless relocations, we manage every aspect to ensure your visual merchandising reflects excellence and consistency.
In-Store Visual Communication Updates: We update your in-store visual communication, including layout design, duratrans printing, and window displays, to maintain freshness and relevance.
Brand Visibility and Merchandising Support: Our team helps maintain and enhance your brand’s visibility, ensuring your store design reflects your brand’s identity and values over time.
Regular Quality Check Visits and POS Reports: We conduct regular quality checks and provide detailed reports on Point-of-Sale (POS) setups, ensuring everything meets your high standards.
Contact our team today to discuss how we can support your retail efficiency.
Professional Support and Maintenance Services for Retail Store Design
At Altavia Japan, we offer maintenance services to ensure your retail store design remains impeccable and functional over time. Since we integrate from design and production stages, we are able to source and repair at lower cost, working together with local specialist to cover nationwide.
Our Support and Maintenance Services Include:
Basic Maintenance Work: Essential maintenance tasks such as lighting repairs (neon lights, spotlights, LED), drawer repairs, paint touch-ups, counter cleaning, and floor waxing, ensuring your store always looks its best.
Regular Quality Check Visits and Reports: We can conduct regular quality check visits to assess the condition of your store’s visual merchandising elements and provide detailed reports to keep you informed about the situation of your Point-of-Sale (POS) setups.
Ensure your retail environment maintains peak performance. Reach out today to discuss how we can support your retail daily needs and keep your space looking exceptional.
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If you’re interested in collaborating on retail store design projects or want to learn more, let’s keep in touch and create something amazing together!
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