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FIT-OUT PROFILE - INTERSTORE | SCHWEITZER

Bridge by Migros, Zürich
Rethinking

Retail

Interstore | Schweitzer is a company that has one ongoing mission, to design and
build successful stores in partnership with their clients. Here, RLI speaks with CEO

and Owner Bernhard Schweitzer and London-based Creative Director Nathan Watts
to discuss how the family-owned business has evolved during the pandemic and how

it plans to move forward in these unique times.
The Interstore | Schweitzer history can be traced back to 1927 a one-of-a-kind approach to design and build, operating across three
with the foundation of Schweitzer Mercantile by the grandfather of banners: Interstore, Schweitzer Project and Schweitzer Industries.
today’s CEO Bernhard Schweitzer. The company’s original operations Interstore is a full-service design agency offering strategy, retail
revolved around shopfitting before Bernhard’s father founded the design, communication & visual merchandising. Schweitzer Project
retail agency Interstore in 1987, initially headquartered in Zurich, builds the store by translating the Interstore design into reality. Lastly
now with five locations around Europe and operating independently is Schweitzer Industries, creating tailor-made retail rollouts, from the
under the roof of the Schweitzer Group. process design to serial production and worldwide delivery.
Today, Schweitzer Group totals about 800 employees and is In the last 12 to 18 months, the company has been focusing on
headquartered in South Tyrol, Northern Italy. As a business, it offers the development of what they call the Flexstore™, an innovative

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