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
Category Archives: Campaigns
PRESS RELEASE: The High Street is Dead, Long Live the High Street! #futurehighstreet
Retail Champion and high street campaigner, Clare Rayner, announces the first Future High Street Summit in a bid to ditch the rhetoric about “death of the high street” and to kick-start positive ACTION to accelerate the transformation and regeneration of … Continue reading
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Tagged future high street, high street
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Beyond Portas – Communities need to work together to reconnect people with local businesses #indieretail
I don’t think anyone would claim our high streets are thriving, and whilst some are better than others, most are in need of a boost. The government invested in some support for the high street, but I am not sure … Continue reading
Why business rates need to change to mirror changes in consumerism
In the 2 weeks from 6th to 20th January 2013 I felt like I’d got caught up in a non-stop media circus. From radio to TV, it was all happening, and practically daily! First it was about the retailers were reporting … Continue reading
Creating Christmas Shopping Crawls – A local activation element of #indiexmas for #indieretail
It’s 25th July – it’s possibly going to be the hottest day of the year (about time). Why then am I blogging about Christmas shopping crawls? Well, I’ve been inspired by Banbury who have run a month-long shopping crawl to … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas shopping, independent christmas, indie xmas, shopping crawl
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Retail reaction to #PortasPilots
Today a further 15 “Portas Pilots” were announced. I’d had the press release yesterday and along with a number of retailers and people like me, small business owners who support and work with retailers, had a number of misgivings and … Continue reading
