London, England, United Kingdom
Retail professional with both PLC board and smaller company exposure. Specialties: hands on experience across menswear product development, store operations and marketing.
Assisting the new owner, as he requires, to maximise business opportunities.
Purchased this West End menswear store on the brink of administration and achieved a swift turn-round. Post-Covid: accelerated existing strategy to increase the mix of soft tailoring and casualwear, and the proportion of online sales via Baltzar.com. Recruited successor as general manager and sold the business to him.
Acquired business in difficulty, introduced discipline and structure, restored sales growth and profitability, provided the merchandising platform to enable continued success, and sold it on to a third party
Purchased, together with partner; became sleeping partner and then sold share to allow partner to develop the business further.
Chaired the remuneration committee and undertook negotiations to acquire various European branded clothing businesses.
Buying and merchandise director