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JOHN IBBOTSON
helps retailers with Best Practice
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We Help
Retailers and Suppliers Increase Customer Satisfaction,
Sales and Profits by Implementing Retail Best Practice.
A team of
experienced retail consultants established in the UK in 1992 to help
retailers and suppliers implement best practice.
We work in all sectors and types of retailing from the
smallest convenience store to the biggest
hypermarket.
We know all the systems, processes and
techniques that will increase your customer
satisfaction, sales and profits.
Retail Vision covers a wide range
of disciplines, from a
complete project team to providing an
expert retail consultant to focus just on the smallest detail.
Our retail management consultancy understands the issues
and challenges shaping the
retailing industry both in the UK and
globally.
We offer retailers and suppliers the
deep experience of our team of
consultants who have spent many years
working for leading retailers such as
Tesco, ASDAWalmart, Sainsbury, and
Safeway.
At Retail
Vision, we will provide you with a
consultant team of practitioners that have worked in some
of the best retail businesses in the world, across all
the functions, using pragmatic experience, management
tools and ethical values that have succeeded time and
time again.
If you want to receive
Retailing Best Practice
our guide
to the systems and processes that the worlds leading
retailers use, please
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Retail
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JOHN IBBOTSON |
John Ibbotson BSc
co-founded Retail Vision in 1992, after a Retail Management career
at senior level with Littlewoods, Makro, AsdaWalmart,
ParkNShop, Cooperative Group and several
years consulting with Ryder Strategies. He implemented Retail Best
Practice in Asda, Park’NShop and the Cooperative Group. He has led
major retail Category Management projects with Tesco, Asda,
Sainsbury, Safeway (USA) Migros (Turkey) and Ramstore (Russia). He
is a specialist in Retail Best Practice, Retail Management, Category
Management, and Retail Systems. He has developed retail initiatives
with many clients including Retail Strategy, Retail Organisation,
and Retail Best Practice in the UK, USA, Europe and the Middle East. |
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RON SMITHSON |
Ron Smithson
co-founded Retail Vision with John in 1992. Senior Retail and
Distributive Management with DBC, AsdaWalmart and the Big
Food Group. He focuses on Retail Performance Management with
special emphasis on Store Organisation, Retail Best Practice and
Retail Planning. He has worked extensively in the USA and Europe,
leading extensive change projects. Some of his recent
assignments include Category management Projects for Carrefour
(France) ICA (Sweden) Ahold (Holland) and Retail Best
Practice Implementation for Ramstore in Moscow and Migros
in Istanbul.
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BRIAN KOLAZINSKI |
Brian Kolazinski.
After senior retail management roles in Tesco, ASDA and
Booker,
Brian pioneered product imaging, photographic planograms and
Category Management software development with ASDA and the Galleria
Group. Many category management partnerships with Tesco,
ASDAWalmart, Sainsbury and UK suppliers and in Europe and the USA as
well as major retail reorganisation projects for Booker, Iceland,
Safeway and A&P
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MICHAEL J RAYCRAFT |
Michael J Raycraft. Michael had held key positions as a Manager, Group Controller,
Retail Director and Retail Managing Director at the Tesco Group.
During his last appointment as the CEO of Tesco Lotus Thailand,
Michael was not only instrumental in the expansion of the business
to become a market leader in 4 years, but also in supporting Tesco's
entry into Taiwan, Malaysia and Korea Michael is currently the
Director of Unza Group of Companies in Singapore, Chairman of
Distri-Thai Ltd in Thailand and Director of Niligris in India
(Bangalore). He is also a partner in The Marketing Partnership
Consultancy.
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DENIS DINEEN |
Denis Dineen,
Fresh foods, retail and supply chain. with Tesco as Fresh Food Specialist
and Development Manager, Group Commercial
Manager for St Merryn Meats UK, Vice President Maple Leaf Foods
and Retail Foods Brands Canada. Key Skills in Marketing Chilled Ready
Meals, Store Operations, Fresh Foods, Private Label and Brand
Development, Manufacturing and Supply Chain. Denis has
consulted for companies such as Asda/Walmart, Safeway,
Pathmark Stores USA, Retail Food Brands
Canada, Smithfield Foods
USA, Maple Leaf Foods, Vantage Foods, Government of
Alberta and Metro Stores Canada |
GONZALO PADILLA |
Gonzalo Padilla,
has a Retail Management career with Jumbo
Hypermarkets (Chile), Store Operations and Construction for Santa Isabel, Ahold
Supermarkets (Chile). He has developed retail initiatives with many
clients like Casa & Ideas Stores, Laboratorios Knopp Stores, and
others, including Retail Strategy, Retail Organisation, and Retail
Best Practice. Gonzalo specializes in key retail aspects of shopping
centers and malls. He has worked on the design, layout and
construction of shopping center Plaza Festival (Chile) and Strip
Center mall. He has many years experience of fast growing developing
markets.
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GEORGE WILLIAMS |
George Williams
BSc. Senior Management in Store Operations and Construction
for Sainsbury, Tesco, ParkNShop in South East Asia and Linde
in
Thailand. George specialises in the Planning, Design and
Construction of Retail Hypermarkets, Supermarkets and Shopping
Centres. George has led projects for Retail Development Construction
for clients in China, Hong Kong and Thailand as well as the UK.
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Retail Consulting
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Each
retail consultant is highly
experienced in Retail Strategy, Retail Organisation,
Category Management, Planograms and Retail Management Consulting
procedures. Each retail consultant has expertise in every type of retail
consulting in all sectors, food, fresh food and non food in the
most sophisticated environments to the less advanced but fast
growing developing markets. Our business is built on long term retail consulting relationships with retailers and
suppliers. |
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Retail Consultant Skills |
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Our retail consulting approach is to get to know your business, benchmark it against
best practice worldwide. We propose solutions to your retail
consulting
problems and implement cost effective solutions. |
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Retail Consulting Costs |
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We operate as an international network of Retail Consultancy with no
expensive overheads. Our costs are fixed on a project fee basis not
on an open ended day rate. We cost less than the
major retail consulting firms. |
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Retail
Vision
Consultants, Vision House, 139 Wakefield Road, Scissett,
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD8 9HR
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