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: Retail Strategy
Grant Shapps: 12 “Portas Pilot” Towns to win “golden ticket” and share £1million for regeneration #indieretail
TOWNS REGENERATION CONTEST LAUNCHED From the press release “The Government today (4th Februray 2012) launched a competition to find 12 areas to share £1 million under a drive to regenerate town centres. The move followed last year’s review of high … Continue reading
Step 10 of #RetailChampion 10-Steps to Retail Success: Back Office
This blog introduces the tenth and final step of the “10-steps to retail success“, Back Office. 10-steps to retail success is a process / methodology I’ve developed for my 1-2-1 mentoring clients. Over the past weeks / months I’ve been … Continue reading
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Which major retailers can #indieretail look to for inspiration in 2012?
I was asked to write a piece for a magazine that involved reflecting on which of the major players in the UK retail market really set a great example that smaller, independent retailers can follow in order to mirror their … Continue reading
Step 9 of #RetailChampion 10-Steps to Retail Success: Planning and Controlling
This blog introduces the nineth step, of the “10-steps to retail success“, Planning and Controlling. 10-steps to retail success is a process / methodology I’ve developed for my 1-2-1 mentoring clients. Over the past weeks / months I’ve been introducing each … Continue reading
The multichannel consumer experience – the missing element of #portasreview?
I commented on each of Mary Portas’ 28 recommendations in my earlier blog. I now want to focus on what I feel is missing, certainly at a glance, from the review. The internet has fundamentally changed the consumers expectation of … Continue reading
Mary Portas reveals 28 recommendations in her high street review #portasreview #indieretail
This morning the eagerly anticipated #portasreview was delivered to Whitehall by Mary Portas, TV’s Queen of Shops. The full report can be found on http://www.bis.gov.uk. There has been much cynicism about this report – many thinking it’s a waste of … Continue reading
Step 8 of #RetailChampion 10-Steps to Retail Success: Supply Chain
This blog introduces the eighth step, of the “10-steps to retail success“, Supply Chain. 10-steps to retail success is a process / methodology I’ve developed for my 1-2-1 mentoring clients. Over the coming weeks / months I’ll be introducing each step … Continue reading
