Clare Rayner
The Retail Champion
Clare is a retail expert, speaker, writer, mentor, consultant, analyst and trainer. Through The Retail Champion programmes she shares her expertise with both retailers and suppliers to retail, developing strategies to increase profit, customer base, revenue streams & channels to market.Follow The Retail Champion on Linkedin
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Pledge your Support for Independent Retail #indieretail
Spend your £££s wisely – a little can go a long way The CLES (Centre for Local Economic Strategies) did some research for FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) about the value of a £1 spent locally – the results were … Continue reading
Not just for Christmas. A year from the Portas Review, high streets need more than decoration #portas1year
PRESS RELEASE: Call for central and local government to demonstrate focused, informed and long term leadership to build on the foundations of local action that have been laid. To mark the first anniversary of the publication of the Portas Review … Continue reading
Portas Review One Year On: Consumer Revolution, Retail Evolution and Innovation
As part of a group of writers I was invited to comment for AMT (Action for Market Towns) on the 1 year anniversary of the Portas review having been published. For more details, and to see all the other contributions, … Continue reading
Christmas Shopping: The focus will now be shifting away from online… are you ready? #Indieretail #Indiexmas
We were told that Monday 3rd December 2012 was Mega Monday (or Cyber Monday as others call it). Apparently on this single day up to £10,000 per second was being spent online. There are always forecasts like this, and always … Continue reading
