Background: E-commerce retailing is the most rapidly growing shopping mode and has quickly gained a huge market share. The increased growth rate means that the competition among online based companies is growing. Therefore the challenge faced is how to be unique on an extremely competitive market and being able to reach customers in a jungle of information and communication. By identifying barriers and weaknesses in the existing online sales mode, new complementary tools might be found which can help online based companies to stay competitive, meet customers’ demands and deliver exclusive experiences.   Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe the new phenomenon pop-up store and investigate if it could be a complementary tool for online based companies to help tackling limitations inherent in e-businesses.   Methodology: In this study we conducted seven interviews with people that have been working with pop-up store concepts in some way. Two of the interviewees were consultants, one was a specialist on pop-up stores and the rest were Marketing Managers of well known Swedish companies.       Conclusions: This study showed that the three most prominent limitations inherent with e-business (lack of human interaction, communication, capture of visitors’ attention) could be overcome with a pop-up store.   Proposals for future research: It would be interesting to further investigate, in connection to this study, how customers have perceived the concepts and if they think that a pop-up store could increase their knowledge about an online based company and enhance their willingness to purchase through the web

Forskningsfrågor Hur kommer företag att arbeta med showrooms och pop-up butiker i framtiden? Hur ska företag integrera sina olika försäljningskanaler för att behålla en stark position på marknaden? Syfte Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur detaljhandeln kommer att utvecklas i framtiden genom användandet av nya kreativa försäljningskanaler, för att nå nya samt redan befintliga kunder. Vidare syftar uppsatsen till att undersöka vikten av att företagens olika försäljningskanaler är integrerade för att kunna möta kundernas efterfrågan. Syftet är även att skapa en förståelse utifrån hur företag, genom sin kanalintegration, kommer att få konkurrensfördelar på marknaden. Metod Uppsatsen är skriven med en kvalitativ forskningsmetod som har en induktiv ansats med deduktiva inslag. Vi har under studien insamlat empirisk data genom semistrukturerade intervjuer samt två fokusgrupper. Slutsats I denna studie kommer vi fram till att pop-up butiker är ett fenomen som kommer bli allt vanligare, då det är en försäljningskanal som har många fördelar. Studien visar även att showrooms, mot slutkunder, kommer bli allt vanligare. Integrationen av ett företags försäljningskanaler kommer samtidigt bli viktig, för att skapa helhetsupplevelsen för kunder. / Research question How will companies work with showrooms and pop-up stores in the future? How can companies integrate their various sales channels to maintain a strong position in the market? Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the retail industry will evolve in the future- using novel creative sales channels to reach both new and existing customers. Furthermore, the thesis aims to examine the importance of how corporations’ different sales channels are integrated in order to meet customer demand. Another objective is to gain an understanding of how companies, through channel integration, can attain a competitive advantage in the market. Method We used a qualitative research method with an inductive approach but incorporating some deductive elements in order to investigate the above questions. During the study we collected empirical data through semi-structured interviews and from two focus groups. Conclusion Our research suggests that the pop-up store is a phenomenon that will continue to grow because it has many advantages as a sales channel. Moreover, it indicates that showrooms will broaden their target market to include end consumers. The integration of a company's sales channels will also be important to create a cohesive overall experience for customers.

Detta examensarbete undersöker vad som utgör effektiv visuell kommunikation. Litteraturstudier om kommunikation och designprinciper har utförts. För att få fördjupad kunskap har ett säljmaterial i form av en broschyr tagits fram åt ett företag där kunskap om effektiv visuell kommunikation applicerats. Detta har utgjort examensarbetets praktiska del. Arbetet har utförts efter Petterssons (2002) modell och resulterat i en broschyr med pop up- funktioner. Att utgå från en kommunikationsteori för att sätta sig in i mottagarens situation och de eventuella störningsmoment som kan ske vid överförandet av ett meddelande har visat sig varit mycket användbart. Även förståelse för vanligt förekommande kommunikationshinder och hur människans perception fungerar anses vara till fördel att inkludera i arbetet. Kunskap om designprinciper ökar chanserna att lyckas utforma effektiv visuell kommunikation. / This thesis examines the foundation of efficient visual communication. Literary studies of communication and design principals have been executed. To gain thorough knowledge a sales material in the form of a brochure has been produced for a company where knowledge of effective visual communication has been applied. The brochure has been the practical part of the thesis. The work has been executed based on Petterssons (2002) model and has resulted in a brochure with pop up-functions. To proceed from a communication theory in understanding the receiver’s situation and the eventual disturbances that can occur during the transmission of a message has proven very useful. Also, the understanding of frequently occurring communication impediments and how the human perception works is seen as an advantage to include in the produce. Knowledge of design principles increases the chances to create effective visual communication.

Denna studie ämnar till att undersöka och analysera pop-up butiker för att kunna bidra med en ökad kunskap kring detta nya fenomen. Vårt främsta syfte är att undersöka hur företagets behov av att skapa relationer och kundens önskningar om att få en upplevelse möts i kontexten av en pop-up. För att få en förståelse kring detta avser studien även att undersöka vilka bakomliggande motiv företag har för öppnandet av en pop-up butik. / This study aims to investigate and analyze pop-up stores in order to contribute to increased knowledge about this new phenomenon. Our main purpose is to investigate how the company's needs to create relationships and how customers wish to get an experience come together in the context of a pop-up. In order to gain an understanding of this, the study also involves investigating the underlying motives companies have for the opening of a pop-up shop.

The library on the beachThe library has been awarded special funding from the government. The goal for this outreach library is to support children in their leisure time and to encourage their reading. The aim has been to investigate the relationship between the purpose of outreach library activities and actual user behavior.The main purpose of the essay is how the relation is between the purpose of outreach library and how the visitors’ behaviors corresponds to the purpose. Is it possible to create a Library on the beach? How the relation is between the purpose of the outreach library and how the visitor’s behaviors corresponds to the purposes? Is it possible through the investigation to get an indication if it is the right way for people to build relations to library on their leisure time?The investigation was conducted through interviews with library staff, rooting the results of the research in theories.The assessment of the results of this study through observations and interviews is that the Beach Library is more than just playing with children.The children use the library for reading and participating in various activities that can provide knowledge. The beach library is a contact creating activity, and as the visitors express and their visits show, it is experienced as an appreciated meeting point. Jochumsen et al (2012) and their model fills all four rooms, indicating that the visitors and especially the children are given a richer leisure time where each individual possibly can grow and achieve empowerment. The result also shows that adults gather around the library and use it for conversations in a social aspect but also look at the contents of magazines, movies, books and borrow them. The study has a weakness since it does not answer the question whether the visitors think that the library's content and activities raise needs and require a continuation, or if they are just happy that something happens on the beach.

The design of a pop-up book or card has hitherto been labour intensive with tasks of trials and errors. The constructions of collapsible pop-up structures can be demanding and inefficient without adequate knowledge of their geometric properties. This paper examines the properties of creases in 90° pop-up structures. A 90° pop-up structure is one that erects fully when two adjacent base pages, on which it sits, are opened to a right angle. In particular, we define a boundary region for creating 90° pop-ups. Similarly, paper folds are able to achieve pop-up effects and can be integrated with 90° pop-up constructions. The development of these pop-up structures can be represented graphically. Through this study, a fundamental foundation for pop-up topology and geometry is built. This foundation would be vital for understanding the applications of pop-up making techniques. The mathematical relationships devised would be useful for developing computer-enhanced pop-up design. / Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

Pop-up retail was first introduced as a new marketing concept in 2003, but it only appeared in South Africa in 2008. Pop-up retail is still viewed as an innovation in South Africa. It entails the opening of a tentative store, located in a unique space or venue, offering the opportunity for product trial and “one-of-a-kind” store experiences through the use of unique venues. Pop-up stores are temporary and their opening is mostly unannounced (OPEN TEXT CORPORATION, 2008c:4). Consumers are forced to make quick decisions to either visit the store or not, as these stores have a limited lifespan. Pop-up retail offers an entertaining and satisfactory retail environment and may provide a solution for retailers to survive fierce competition. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between characteristics of the innovation (relative advantage, trialability, observability, low complexity, compatibility), internal factors (mood or emotional state, hedonic desires, consumer innovativeness), an external factor (exterior store design) on the one hand, and young South African consumers‟ impulse intention to visit a pop-up store on the other. An exploratory survey research design was followed. Data was collected by means of a structured, self-administered questionnaire developed from existing scales. It was administered to a convenience sample of 523 South African students. Confirmatory factor analyses were done to validate the latent underlying variables for the hybrid model. Pearson‟s correlation coefficient test was run for testing various hypotheses, establishing the correlation between the independent variables and the dependent variable. Values of the correlation coefficient ranged between 0.39 and 0.61, indicating a positive correlation between the independent variables and the impulse intention to visit a pop-up store. All the correlations were significant at the 1% level (p-value < 0.0001). Multiple regression analysis was employed to test and quantify the relative contribution of the multiple independent variables to predicting impulse intention to visit a pop-up store. The findings indicated that all the hypotheses developed for the study were supported. Characteristics of an innovation, internal factors and external factors were proven to play a role in young South African consumers‟ impulse intention toward pop-up retail. Observability, compatibility, consumer innovativeness and exterior store design appeared to be more predictive of consumers‟ impulse intention to visit pop-up stores. The study was limited to students enrolled at only two tertiary institutions in South Africa. Further research is needed at tertiary institutions in other cities in the country. The study focused only on impulse intention to visit pop-up stores in South Africa and future research is needed to study the different forms of pop-up retail to determine the most effective ones locally, as well as the behaviour of consumers visiting an actual pop-up store. Retailers making use of pop-up stores should include unique products, engaging experiences, signage and trial opportunities for consumers. Store design should be eye-catching, hedonically pleasing and explorative, with moderate complexity to attract innovative consumers and result in optimum success. / Dissertation (MConsumer Science)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / gm2014 / Consumer Science / unrestricted

This master project adresses the challenge of transforming the former Bergs Oil Terminal in Nacka into an adaptive, collaborative, and socially just environment supporting the development of a self-sufficient post petroleum society. As tools, it experiments with temporary "pop ups" with various life cycles. The project critically examines urban development under the viewpoint of bottom-up activities where future development must be adapted to current socio-economical conditions and ecological concerns.

The Lobby The Lobby är en marknadsplats, skapad av AMF Fastigheter med syfte att agera testplattform för den framtida detaljhandeln. Marknadsplatsen är en fysisk plattform där pop-up konceptet, upplevelsen och event används med helt ny innebörd för att attrahera kunder och varumärken att ställa ut på The Lobby. Syfte och forskningsfrågor Denna fallstudie om The Lobby syftar till att undersöka vilka primära faktorer som krävs för att skapa en marknadsplats där upplevelsen och pop-up konceptet är centralt samt kartlägga dess potentiella roll i framtiden. Med grund i detta syfte har två forskningsfrågor tagits fram: Vilka är de viktigaste faktorerna vid utformandet av en marknadsplats som The Lobby?  Vilken roll kan denna typ av marknadsplats komma att ha i framtiden? Metod Denna studie har baseras på en kvalitativ fallstudie av marknadsplatsen The Lobby. Forskningsansatsen är deduktiv med induktiva inslag. Det empiriska materialet består av åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer där respektive respondent har en direkt koppling till The Lobby. Förutom intervjuer har även två observationer genomförts. Teori Den teoretiska referensramen behandlar termerna köpcentrum, pop-up butik och kundupplevelse. I denna studie motsvarar köpcentrum en marknadsplats där flertalet aktörer möts på samma plats. Teorin kommer även redogöra för pop-up butikens innebörd samt dess fördelar. Slutligen behandlas kundupplevelsens roll inom detaljhandeln. Slutsatser Genom att ta hänsyn till marknadsplatsens varumärke, kontrakt för pop-up butikerna, teknologi, kundernas behov av socialisering och upplevelse kan marknadsplatsen optimeras och skapa återkommande kunder. Om en marknadsplats som The Lobby kommer ha en fortsatt central roll i framtiden återstår att se, däremot kan det konstateras är att pop-up butikens fördelar blir allt fler. / The Lobby The Lobby is a marketplace, created by AMF Fastigheter with the purpose of finding new alternatives for the future of the retail industry. The marketplace is a physical retail platform where the pop-up concept, experience based marketplace and events will be used to attract customers and brands to The Lobby. Purpose and research questions This case study about The Lobby aims to investigate the primary factors which are required to create an experience based marketplace where the pop-up concept is central. Furthermore what purpose this kind of marketplace will hold in the future. Based on the purpose, the following research questions were formed: What are the main factors while developing a marketplace like The Lobby?  What role can this type of marketplace have in the future? Method This study is based on a qualitative case study on The Lobby in Stockholm, Sweden. The study has a deductive approach, with some elements of inductive approach. The empirical data consist of eight semi structured interviews and two observations. All the respondents has a connection to The Lobby. Theory The theoretical references used for this study are shopping mall, pop-up store and experience based marketplace. The theory of shopping mall will be studied as a marketplace where stakeholders are cooperating in one place. The theory will also describe the pop-up stores pros and cons and also the role of the experience based marketplace in the retail industry. Conclusion If a marketplace like The Lobby, where customers, retailers and partners have the opportunity to try new things, will continue to play a central role in the future, remains to be seen. One thing that can be said, however, is that the advantages of the temporary store are increasing.

Titel: Här idag- borta imorgon. En kvalitativ fallstudie om vilka möjligheter och risker pop-up butiker kan medföra för ett varumärkes image och identitet.   Författare: Amanda Andersson och Frida Andersson   Handledare: Leif Rytting Examinator: Kaisa Lund Kurs: Kandidatuppsats 15hp. Företagsekonomi III - Marknadsföring. Detaljhandel och Service Management, Linnéuniversitetet, VT 2019. Syfte och forskningsfrågor Syftet med studien är att undersöka på vilket sätt pop-up butiker kan stärka ett varumärkes image och identitet samt vilka risker konceptet kan medföra ur ett varumärkesperspektiv inom detaljhandeln.   Forskningsfrågor: ·     Varför väljer Företag att öppna pop-up butiker? ·    Vilka möjligheter och risker finns det med att öppna pop-up butiker utifrån ett varumärkesperspektiv? ·     På vilket sätt kan pop-up butiker bidra till att stärka befintliga relationer mellan varumärken och konsumenter? Metod I studien tillämpades en kvalitativ fallstudie av inredningssektorn. Det empiriska materialet baseras på åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer av personer med kunskap om pop-up butiker.       Slutsatser Pop-up butiker kan stärka ett varumärkes och identitet image genom att det ger varumärket en fysisk närvaro där de får chansen att förtydliga sitt varumärke. Den största risken ligger i om var pop-up butikerna inte följer varumärkets övriga helhet samt om varumärken öppnar överallt vilket kan urvattna varumärket. / Title: Here today- gone tomorrow. A qualitative study about the opportunities and risks the affect of pop-up stores have on a brands image and identity. Authors: Amanda Andersson och Frida Andersson Tutor: Leif Rytting Examiner: Kaisa Lund Subject: Bachelor thesis 15 credits. Business administration III - Marketing. Retail and Service Management, Linnaeus University, Spring 2019. Purpose and research question The purpose of this study is to investigate in which way brands can strengthen their image and identity and the risks the concept can entail from a brand perspective.   Research questions ·    Why do companies open pop-up stores? ·    What are the opportunities and risks for opening a pop-up store from a brand perspective? ·    In what way can pop-up stores help strengthen existing relationships between a brand and customer?   Method This study is based on a qualitative case study in the furnishing industry. The empirical material are based on eight semi structured interviews with people with knowledge about pop-up stores.      Conclusion/Findings Pop-up stores can strengthen a brands image and identity by giving the brand a physical attendance to explicate the brand. The risk is if the brands pop-up stores doesn’t follow the themes with the other channels, or if they open pop-up stores everywhere can result in  brand overexposure.