The World's Best Shops: How They Started, the People Behind Them, and How You Can Open One Too

A guide to the next generation of retail businesses. Meet the innovators and entrepreneurs who run shops, and learn how you can do the same.

A new generation of founders and entrepreneurs are revolutionizing brick-and-mortar retail with innovative sales strategies and hybrid shop designs that leave nothing to chance.

Curated by Courier magazine, The World’s Best Shops is a guide to the best of modern shops, featuring profiles of some of the world’s most diverse and inspiring retail spaces, briefings on big retail trends and opportunities, and more than 70 pages of practical advice and tips for anyone who’s ever dreamed of setting up their own shop.

It is a refreshing view on thriving businesses that makes one thing clear: retail is alive and kicking, and reinventing itself in wonderful ways. Let’s get selling!

About the Author:

Courier Magazine is the defining media brand for a new generation who want to live and work on their own terms. Based in London, Courier has been telling insightful and inspiring stories of modern business through print, podcasts, events and more since launching in 2013. This is their second book with Gestalten, following up to Work Better. Live Smarter. Be Happier., published in 2021.