Retail design and branding agency M Worldwide and shopfitting and fit out contractor Datum Contracts have been jointly appointed by Cadw — the Welsh Government’s Historic Environment service — to develop a new approach to retail and visitor centre site design at Cadw’s historic visitor attractions. This will be initially trialled at Conwy Castle, North Wales. M Worldwide will be creating a set of high level design principles that can be applied at Cadw’s many and varied historic properties across Wales, and Datum Contracts will fit out and implement those designs.

Following a three way pitch, Anthem Worldwide, the strategic design division of Schawk, whose integrated global network provides innovative solutions to articulate, unify and manage brand impact to create compelling and consistent brand experiences, has been appointed by PLUS supermarket chain in the Netherlands to create a positioning, design strategy and brand architecture that will work across its whole private label portfolio. The objectives are to create a look and feel for PLUS’s products that reflects the retailer’s brand values and delivers a brand in its own right for PLUS which does not follow ‘A’ brands.