How to Get the Most Out of Your Merchandising Team You can have the best merchandising team in New Zealand. Experienced. Detail-driven. Retail-savvy. The kind of team who notice when a competitor has gained 10cm of shelf space before anyone else does.... Feb 24, 2026
How to Bridge the Gap Between Head Office Strategy and Store Reality How to Bridge the Gap Between Head Office Strategy and Store Reality - why great strategy still fails without strong in-store execution. At head office, everything looks aligned: The range review is a... Feb 19, 2026
10 Most Common Merchandising Mistakes We See In-Store At Plum Agencies , our national merchandising team works in retail stores across New Zealand every single day. From pharmacy and beauty to big-box and specialty retail, we support brands with professi... Feb 15, 2026
Execution in Motion: No two days in merchandising are ever the same. That’s part of the appeal, and also part of the challenge. Our field team is the face of Plum Agencies in store. They’re the ones navigating planograms,... Feb 11, 2026
Great Brands Don’t Struggle With Strategy, They Struggle With Execution In retail, execution is everything. You can have the best product, a strong brand story and a solid strategy, but if the people representing you in-store aren’t reliable, results will slip fast. At Pl... Feb 8, 2026
Cross-Merchandising Case Studies That Actually Work Cross-merchandising gets talked about a lot in retail. In practice, it often ends up in the “nice idea” basket rather than something that consistently drives sales. When it works well, it feels effort... Feb 2, 2026
Why Gold-Standard Retail Support Matters in High-Volume NZ Channels Why Gold-Standard Retail Support Matters in High-Volume NZ Channels New Zealand retail punches well above its weight. While the market may be smaller geographically, many NZ retail channels deliver si... Jan 28, 2026
Tech in the Store Retail technology continues to evolve, with new tools promising faster execution, better engagement and stronger sales. From digital shelf labels to QR codes and interactive displays, the challenge fo... Jan 15, 2026
Why Cosmetics Is One of the Hardest Categories to Merchandise Well At a glance, cosmetics can look straightforward. Small products, high margins, strong brand recognition. But anyone who has worked in-store or managed a beauty category nationally knows the reality is... Jan 12, 2026
How consumer behaviour is changing in NZ retail in 2026 New Zealand retail has always been fast moving, but the pace of change over the last few years has been something else. By 2026, shoppers are more informed, more selective, and far less patient than t... Jan 7, 2026
Nationwide Retail Execution No matter how strong your strategy looks on paper, retail success is decided in one place: the shop floor. Nationwide retail execution is where planning meets reality. It’s the difference between a ca... Jan 4, 2026
Why So Many Brands Are Restructuring Their Sales and Merchandising Models More brands are restructuring their sales and merchandising models, not because these functions are no longer important, but because traditional in-house structures are becoming harder to sustain. Ris... Dec 23, 2025