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Milligram is a specialty designer stationery and lifestyle accessories store

  • Written by Maria Matina


In November 2017, Milligram opened their first bricks-and-mortar store in Melbourne Central. On their physical and virtual shelves you’ll find stationery, office and lifestyle accessories — tools for living from around the globe. Since inception ten years ago, Milligram (formerly e-commerce site NoteMaker) have brought to Australian authentic brands that have a strong heritage, quality and a story behind them to share with design lovers.
 
Milligram’s parent company, Telegram Co. are the exclusive Australian distributor of over 35 designer brands including Moleskine, LAMY, Rifle Paper Co., Rhodia, Delfonics and their own in-house designed brand, Milligram Studio. This allows Milligram to provide an extensive range from these leading brands as well as a curated selection from additional global and national ranges including Kate Spade, Leuchtturm1917, Marimekko, ystudio and many more. 
 
Milligram pride themselves on excellent customer service and product knowledge, attention to detail and are passionate about everything they do. They hope to inspire those who like to “do” — create, write, craft, design or draw — by presenting truly special and worthy stationery and lifestyle products.
 
The Milligram store is designed by Melbourne’s award-winning Studio Y and was built by MIC Projects. The store aims to reflect both the modern aesthetic and creative community focus of Milligram.  The store has recently been nominated for two design awards: 2018 Melbourne Design Awards and the 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards.
 
Their Melbourne Central store located on level 2 has an impressive 8.6 metres frontage and provides a space for their brands to sit together and for their customers to play, interact and engage in a customer experience that the online platform cannot provide. In Central Melbourne is is easy to find stationery, office and lifestyle accessories close by.
 
The store provides an interactive experience…
 
- An official LAMY shop-in-shop has been designed in-store with a different aesthetic to provide the LAMY experience, where specialised staff can assist in explaining the design details and benefits of each pen family, ranging from the LAMY noto (RRP $19.95) to the LAMY imporium (RRP $819.00)

- There are two interactive touch screens mounted on the walls where customers can browse the full range online and to find out more about each item. 

- A gift wrap station featuring an iPad where customers can select their gift wrap of choice. This makes gift wrapping accessible to customers.

- Notebooks, diaries and pens are open for display so customers can touch, feel and experience. 

- 150 mesmerising ink swatches have been created to inspire customers to experiment with new colours, pick up a fountain pen while bringing back the art of handwriting and note-taking to a new and inquisitive audience. 

- Roving iPads assist customers with their purchases, making it no longer a necessity to stand in a queue.
 
https://milligram.com/


Qantas launches AVRO innovation program

  • Written by Riley Duke


Qantas Group is inviting the world’s most innovative startups, scaleups and digital disruptors to apply for its second AVRO Accelerator program.

The AVRO Accelerator, run in partnership with Slingshot, gives entrepreneurs the chance to work with Qantas Group to develop, incubate and scale their businesses.

The program, launched in 2017, helped participants build products to trial with Qantas customers, people and operations, as well as commercial and investment deals to grow their businesses.

This year, Qantas is looking to continue that momentum and invest in emerging businesses that can help Qantas continue to diversify and grow, while offering its customers new and improved experiences, and its people smart solutions to transform how they work.

Qantas Group Executive of Strategy, Innovation and Technology, Rob Marcolina, said that Qantas is looking to discover more talent this year.

The aim of the AVRO Accelerator is to find the next generation of businesses that can benefit from our unique assets to help identify new growth opportunities for Qantas, while helping to build their businesses at the same time,” he said.

Through our 2017 cohort we discovered ideas that we have implemented to help improve our customers’ experiences. For example, with our help, Volantio launched its Yana platform, enabling airlines to give customers more flexibility when they travel. The dynamic technology is currently being trialled here at Qantas, along with several other airlines around the world.”

Slingshot CEO Karen Lawson said the aim of this year’s program is to continue to drive commercial outcomes for Qantas and startup founders.

Australia is now recognised by the Global Entrepreneurship rankings as 7th in the world. There is a wealth of talent in this country that we want to work with. Our search and cohorts are often global in nature representing strength in diversity in all its forms,” she said.

AVRO Accelerator participants will receive funding – with the opportunity to secure additional, next round funding from Qantas – and work with industry-leading mentors and technology partners to accelerate their product development and customer traction. Supported by a structured curriculum and mentorship program, businesses will also have unique access to the scale and global reach of the Group’s brands, its domain expertise and anonymised data and insights.

When you give agile startups and scaleups access to resources like these, the sky really is the limit”, added Ms Lawson.

Applicants wanting to join the program should reflect one or more of the following themes:

  1. Personalised, seamless experiences: Revolutionise our customer journey. Streamline it, personalise it, and give the customer complete control.

  2. Live well, feel well: Help us enrich the lives of our customers and our communities.

  3. Connecting to customers: Help us better understand, engage and reach each of our customers, personalising and optimising the interactions we have with them.

  4. Smarter, safer operations: Transform our processes and platforms to make us safer, faster, simpler and more efficient.

  5. Innovating without limits: Challenge us with original thinking and show us new ways to use our unique assets.

More information can be found at qantas.com/avro along with details of the roadshows in Melbourne and Sydney.

Applications can be made here and will close at 11:59pm AEST 30 April 2018.

Read more about Slingshot here

 

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