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Managing Director of The Retail Group, leading this specialist retail consultancy for over 20 years.First hand involvement as a retailer and as a consultant has led to input in a wide variety of retail disciplines from finding the right people to selecting the right products and defining the right locations and store formats.Accomplished retailer with proven experience across all levels of the industry, responsible for the development of innovative solutions for a diverse range of clients both in the UK and overseas, throughout Europe and the Far East. Clients cover all sectors of the retail market from multiples and food retailers through to property developers, local authorities, transport operators, manufacturers and leisure and heritage operators.An integral part of the development teams responsible for formatting the retail strategies for many of the UK’s leading shopping destinations, including Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Exeter, Canterbury, York, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh as well as delivering retail strategies for a number of leading heritage and leisure operators including National Portrait Gallery, Glasgow Museums and National Museums of Scotland.The Retail Group's consumer oriented approach to research and performance improvement ensures that each location is considered individually. The Retail Group continues to develop many long-term relationships with its clients. Retail experience prior to joining The Retail Group includes a number of blue chip retailers including Bhs and Habitat. Responsible for the set up and launch of The Coloroll Store, a revolutionary home furnishings concept as well as developing and successfully operating The Leading Edge chain of shops, taking the concept from an embryonic idea to a fast growing multi-site operation.

Listed skills include Retail, Retail Design, Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, and 13 others.

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  Managing Director

  The Retail Group

  1988 - Present

  Managing Director of The Retail Group a management consultancy, which purely specialises in retail. Working for a wide variety of clients that are active in the retail and consumer shopper sector, helping clients to maximise retail performance through a detailed understanding of the consumer, their shopping requirements and the opportunities to improve a retail offer to satisfy more requirements more of the time. Working for retailers across the retail spectrum, projects include developing bespoke performance improvement programmes, new concepts, improving short term performance, creating new strategies and developing bespoke training solutions. The Retail Group has defined future town centre strategies for well over 150 locations covering all sizes and types, from market towns, to sub-regional towns and regional destinations. Often working alongside designers and marketers, as well as other skill specific providers.