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Brand Staffing & Experiences for EMEA Tech Brands

Two paths, one goal: experiences that create demand, and retail formats that convert it. 30,000+ product demonstrations and 200+ brand events a year, staffed by trained specialists across 4 territories, from a single pop-up to a multi-market rollout.

Also called: brand experience · retail staffing · in store demonstration · brand space retail

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Two routes into retail

Your product sells when someone shows it.

With nonplusultra

  1. Specialists briefedTrained on your product and there only for it
  2. Time for every shopperNo other range to look after
  3. Shoppers approachedThey start the conversation and show it working
  4. Rolled out to more storesWhat sells in the pilot goes to the next stores

From your head office

  1. Display installedYour display goes up in the store
  2. Staff too busyStore staff look after thousands of products
  3. Waits to be askedNobody explains it unless a shopper asks
  4. Display sells littleThe display stands, the product barely moves

Overview

Online research builds the shortlist.

Physical experience builds the conviction to buy, and that is the moment this service owns.

We work two paths to the same goal.

The first creates demand: roadshows, trade-show and exhibition booths such as IFA, and branded experiences that reach people before the sale, including Meta's European event staffing programme, which we run end-to-end from recruiting and training to on-site leadership.

The second converts it: shop-in-shops, pop-ups, brand stores and dedicated brand spaces inside retailers, staffed by specialists who turn footfall into a sale.

Examples both paths can be judged on: the brand space we created for Google inside MediaMarkt, and the Elkjøp campus, where we designed the retail training concept and deliver brand experiences for reMarkable and Oura.

Behind both paths runs one engine.

We build a specialist culture through product and storytelling training with experience-first onboarding.

We enable guided selling with hands-on demonstrations, customer education and consultation.

We measure what happened through engagement and conversion tracking, retail feedback and store-by-store visibility.

And we grow the community that carries it, through specialist recognition and retail community engagement.

Delivery runs from strategy and concept through production, staffing, execution and optimisation, so one team stays accountable from the first drawing to the last shift: 30,000+ product demonstrations and 200+ brand events per year.

What's included

  • Create demand: roadshows, trade-show and exhibition booths (e.g. IFA) and branded experiences that reach the audience before the sale, including Meta's European event staffing programme run end-to-end from recruiting and training to on-site leadership
  • Convert demand: shop-in-shops, pop-ups, brand stores and dedicated brand spaces inside retailers (e.g. the Google brand space inside MediaMarkt), staffed to turn footfall into a sale
  • Brand and Retail Experience Specialists trained in product knowledge and storytelling, with experience-first onboarding: 30,000+ product demonstrations and 200+ brand events per year
  • Guided selling as a discipline, not a shift: hands-on demonstrations, customer education and consultation, with engagement and conversion tracked store by store
  • Retail spaces and training concepts designed and built, then run (e.g. the Elkjøp campus, where we deliver brand experiences for reMarkable and Oura)
  • One team from strategy and concept through production, staffing, execution and optimisation, across 4 territories, from a single pop-up to a rollout across markets

How we work

Two paths, one goal

Awareness and interest

Create demand

Reach the audience before the sale, in the places where a category gets decided.

  • Roadshows, trade shows and exhibitions (IFA, Intersolar)
  • Branded experiences and brand event programmes
  • Brand Experience Specialists trained in product and storytelling
  • Concept, design and production of the space itself

Trial, trust and purchase

Convert demand

Turn footfall into a sale, at the shelf and in the spaces around it.

  • Shop-in-shops and pop-up stores
  • Brand stores and dedicated brand spaces inside retailers
  • Retail Experience Specialists running demos and consultation
  • Retail training concepts, designed and delivered

The experience engine

From experience to conversion

  1. 01

    Build

    A specialist culture: brand and retail experience specialists, trained in product and storytelling, onboarded experience-first.

  2. 02

    Enable

    Guided selling: hands-on demonstrations, customer education and consultation instead of a scripted pitch.

  3. 03

    Measure

    Performance visibility: engagement and conversion tracking, retail feedback, results readable store by store.

  4. 04

    Grow

    Community and growth: specialist recognition, retail community engagement, activation moments people want to work.

  1. Strategy
  2. Concept
  3. Production
  4. Staffing
  5. Execution
  6. Optimisation

Proof

What we have delivered

A nonplusultra Brand Experience Specialist demonstrating a Google Pixel 9 Pro in the brand space

Google: Pixel brand space in MediaMarkt and Saturn

Design, production and staffing from one team. A freestanding brand space in eight stores, with specialists trained to demo Gemini Live, not just the camera.

live demos delivered
3,500+live demos delivered
MediaMarkt and Saturn stores
0MediaMarkt and Saturn stores
combined store footfall
17.3Mcombined store footfall
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The nonplusultra brand experience team at Meta Beach, Cannes Lions 2026

Meta: European event programme

Exclusive EMEA staffing partner. We built and ran Meta's European event programme end-to-end, from recruiting and training to on-site leadership.

activations in 2025
0+activations in 2025
countries covered
0countries covered
satisfaction rate
94.5%satisfaction rate

Elkjøp Campus: retail training at scale

A retail training concept and booth experience, designed for reMarkable and delivered across four countries.

associates trained in 4 days
0associates trained in 4 days
out of 5 satisfaction
4.7out of 5 satisfaction
countries delivered
0countries delivered

Questions

What buyers ask us about this

Both, and they are priced differently. Trade show staffing at IFA is people, briefing and shift leadership. A shop-in-shop or a brand store is concept, build, staffing and the sell-out target behind it. Most brands start with the first and move to the second.

It moves the decision from a spec sheet into a hand. Our specialists run 30,000+ product demonstrations a year, and engagement and conversion are tracked store by store, so a product demo programme is judged on the same sell-out number as a listing.

Brand and Retail Experience Specialists, trained on product and storytelling before a shift rather than briefed on the morning. The same brand ambassador staff runs a popup store, a roadshow and a shop-in-shop, which is why the tone does not change between formats.

One is fine. A single pop-up store in one city and a rollout across four territories run on the same engine: strategy and concept, production, staffing, execution, optimisation, with one team accountable from the first drawing to the last shift.

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