Retail Design Agency and Visual Merchandising


Millington Associates is a retail design agency specialising in visual merchandising and display. Simon Millington graduated form Newcastle Art school in sculpture in the mid eighties. He produced some amazing decorative metal worked schemes for Harrods and Armani, worked at Liberty for a year then set up shop. Metal work, model making and window props were big in the eighties and his artistic vision and craftsmanship produced some memorable and innovative work for clients such as Dickens & Jones, Selfridges, Harrods, Liberty , Miss Selfridge, Wallis and House of Fraser.

The company is renowned for their creative flair and unique bespoke work. However, the team Millington has built up including top production and new business staff has enabled the company to grown in to a well respected and serious presence in the retail world. They are now a top UK retail design agency whose clients include Marks & Spencer, Nike, Burberry, Pringle of Scotland, Oasis, Wallis, Coast and Viyella.

Retailers now want to achieve deep in-store visual merchandising and display carrying identity from windows to decorative interior features to point of sale and promotional material. Niketown London offer their customers a deep retail interactive touchy-feely experience of the brand. Millington Associates have produced giant interactive walls, a huge chandelier made from Nike Air soles and created interactive exhibition space in store to add to customer experience.

Shop Windows in London - Selfridges Christmas Windows

Shop windows in London are renowned the world over for having leading creative edge. Despite the rise of e-commerce shoppers from all over the UK will come to London to enjoy the rich visual experience of the shopping streets and enticing windows and state of the art interiors designs. Shopping should be a complete visual and environmental treat, appealing to all our senses. This is especially true at Christmas time when London has spectacular Christmas windows. Millington Associates have worked on some of the most memorable and award winning schemes such as Selfridges Christmas windows in 2006 which featured giant topiary figures, sculpted in Millington's studio, voted best Christmas windows at the RVM Awards. Previous Christmas shop windows in London have included Burberry, Nike, Viyella, Dickens & Jones, Marks & Spencer and they are set to design Harrods' Christmas windows in 2008. Watch this site for news of more 2008 confirmations.

One Stop Shop for Retail - Scenic Painting for Theatre and Retail

Billed as the one stop shop for retail, Millington Associates offer a comprehensive selection of retail project management services that are carefully designed to present a tailored and fantastic solution for when you require expert assistance in creating the ideal image for your business premises.

Designed to benefit you and your business in the most effective way, we thrive on providing a full range of services such as incorporating excellent quality scenic painting for theatre and retail companies, breathtaking shop front displays and so much more. Here at Millington Associates we aim to provide companies with enticing and exciting art to help enhance their company and thus expand their reach to more customers.

Your shop or store front is possibly the most important area of your business as this is what advertises you to passing trade and is what potential customers will see first. Utilised correctly, the correct design can add vibrancy and bring your products to life. We believe the methods we apply attract more interest in your products and services, in real life situations.

At Millington Associates, we head a strategic team, dedicated to the correct project management for retail shops and companies who are actively looking to increase their brand awareness. By incorporating our valued techniques our aim is to craft the best sculpture or create the best painting for example that will project and convey your ideals; with our assistance in leading your retail project management, this is one promise that is guaranteed to happen.

Over the years we have built up an excellent team which has enabled us to grow as a company and allow us to create new and unique ideas for each individual client. Offering such an impressive level of satisfaction is just one of the points that separate us from the competition, creating bespoke designs for many businesses from a diverse range of industries; that have been very satisfied with the end result – the same end result we can provide for you.

Here at Millington Associates we aim to give you a design and structure that will meet your every need and requirement. We listen to all of your ideas and when it comes to creating a bespoke and unique design, we pay close attention to those ideas to create the perfect scenario for your business.

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