While other service-based industries in Sweden are struggling, cafés are doing better than ever - the industry increases 10% every year, and in 2013 it took in 5.4 billion SEK. But why are Sweden’s cafés so successful? The answer might be cultural.
Cheerios Family Breakfast Project: a social start to the day
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7 Feb 2014
In today's busy world, family mealtime is often neglected. Cereal brand Cheerios wants to make the most important meal of the day a more fulfilling family experience, and something that we should be spending at least seven minutes enjoying.
Cafés provide the perfect grey area between home and work, but the ongoing pressure to buy more coffee or get out can be distracting and uncomfortable. Enter Russian 'anti-café' Ziferblat, where it's impossible to outstay your welcome.
City rental properties often have strict policies against pets. Seeing an opportunity to unite cat-lovers with their feline friends while supporting the local community, Lauren Pears is opening Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium: London’s first cat café.
Comfort food: how NANA feeds a growing appetite for community
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22 Aug 2013
Providing employment for older women while offering simple, wholesome food for locals, comfort-food café NANA is part of a growing trend of social enterprises that are reclaiming the feel-good collaborative ethic of past generations.
How Drink, Shop & Do brings community back to the high street
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15 Mar 2013
A cosy mishmash of vintage furniture, crafts and homeware alongside parties, festivals and workshops, London's Drink, Shop & Do presents a compelling retail concept to revive declining high streets.
Lunch Beat is a midday dance meet-up originating in Stockholm, Sweden, which turns the business lunch hour into a club scene. Public monthly events are held in cities around Sweden, offering 60 minutes of energy release on the dance floor.