Founder and Managing Director of niche retail consultancy; Retail Acumen and the leading retail business event; The Retail Conference Clare Rayner is The Retail Champion. Based in the UK she also mentors businesses and works closely with retail business owners to achieve business growth by delivering robust, repeatable processes and systems, enabling them to become scalable, saleable enterprises.
Clare is an international business speaker and a regular media contributor who has been featured on BBC Business Breakfast, BBC radio, and within Retail Week on a number of occasions.
Highly focused and a passionate serial entrepreneur her company delivers detailed retail analysis and insights into retailers’ business performance, making recommendations that deliver maximum reward for minimum investment.
The focus is on 4 key retail business objectives to: Increase Sales, Intensify Assortment, Improve Return on Space and Optimise Supply Chain. The client base includes many well known retail multiples.
Alongside Retail Acumen, Clare founded The Retail Conference, the UK’s leading conference and business networking event for retailers, in 2007. In 2010 she also created The Retail Breakfast, a spin-off from The Retail Conference.
In addition she is a founding director of e-mphasis internet marketing with her husband, Andrew Rayner who is the MD. e-mphasis launched in 2008 and uniquely focuses on delivering local search marketing services for businesses serving consumers – typically retail, hospitality, leisure and travel.
Through her honed retail expertise spanning 20 years, Clare’s business interests all have a common theme – each enables retail businesses to cut through complexity and “join the dots” making connections between the relevant concepts, processes and people for optimal performance and profit.
Prior to creating Retail Acumen Clare was a Management Consultant for Accenture and SAP Retail and has worked in senior management positions in some of the UK's most well regarded retail businesses.
These include Habitat Group, Woolworths Plc, Sainsbury’s, Thresher / First Quench Retailing, ASDA, Disney Stores Europe, Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate, Crabtree & Evelyn, Retail Trust, Nottingham Trent University, Northwich & Cheshire Council, Unipower Solutions Europe, TXT e-Solutions, Advanced Visual Technology (Part of Oracle), Caffe Culture, Prevista (RBS) – Food Network / Boot camp event, Garmentology, Txt2buy, K3 Retail, CTS Retail Charteris Plc
The mindset and skill set of successful retailing is literally in Clare’s blood. Her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were all successful retailers with businesses in the textiles, fashion, fresh produce, hospitality, convenience and make-to-order home furnishings sectors, spanning more than 70 years. She is passionate about business success and business performance. Clare says “this isn’t a job for me; it’s a way of life which I absolutely love!”
Clare and Andrew live in St Albans, Hertfordshire and have 2 children.
Clare Rayner, The Retail Champion, can provide keynote presentations on the following topics:
Retail Strategy – How developments in technology, consumer behaviour and the wider market influence retail businesses, and, what can retailers do about it
Retail Planning – Price Elasticity, Range and Space, Product assortment, Merchandise Management, Visual merchandising, Supply Chain management
Retail Operations – Multi-channel retailing, Store management, E-commerce, Fulfilment, customer service
How to leverage social Media for business (B2B or B2C focused) – calling on her own practical expertise and real life case studies as well as sharing examples of what works best for retailers
How to make best use of the internet to market your retail business
Women in Business – As a full time working mother of 2 juggling running a handful of successful businesses, Clare Rayner is ideally placed to speak about her story, highs and lows, and share some of her own experiences.
Entrepreneurialism - Having left “corporate life” and been behind the creation and development of several successful brands, Clare Rayner can share her thoughts on making the choice between employment and entrepreneurialism, and, some practical advice too!
In addition a number of these topics can be delivered as more practical, hands on workshops.
Testimonials are available on request.
Clare is an international business speaker and a regular media contributor who has been featured on BBC Business Breakfast, BBC radio, and within Retail Week on a number of occasions.
Highly focused and a passionate serial entrepreneur her company delivers detailed retail analysis and insights into retailers’ business performance, making recommendations that deliver maximum reward for minimum investment.
The focus is on 4 key retail business objectives to: Increase Sales, Intensify Assortment, Improve Return on Space and Optimise Supply Chain. The client base includes many well known retail multiples.
Alongside Retail Acumen, Clare founded The Retail Conference, the UK’s leading conference and business networking event for retailers, in 2007. In 2010 she also created The Retail Breakfast, a spin-off from The Retail Conference.
In addition she is a founding director of e-mphasis internet marketing with her husband, Andrew Rayner who is the MD. e-mphasis launched in 2008 and uniquely focuses on delivering local search marketing services for businesses serving consumers – typically retail, hospitality, leisure and travel.
Through her honed retail expertise spanning 20 years, Clare’s business interests all have a common theme – each enables retail businesses to cut through complexity and “join the dots” making connections between the relevant concepts, processes and people for optimal performance and profit.
Prior to creating Retail Acumen Clare was a Management Consultant for Accenture and SAP Retail and has worked in senior management positions in some of the UK's most well regarded retail businesses.
These include Habitat Group, Woolworths Plc, Sainsbury’s, Thresher / First Quench Retailing, ASDA, Disney Stores Europe, Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate, Crabtree & Evelyn, Retail Trust, Nottingham Trent University, Northwich & Cheshire Council, Unipower Solutions Europe, TXT e-Solutions, Advanced Visual Technology (Part of Oracle), Caffe Culture, Prevista (RBS) – Food Network / Boot camp event, Garmentology, Txt2buy, K3 Retail, CTS Retail Charteris Plc
The mindset and skill set of successful retailing is literally in Clare’s blood. Her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were all successful retailers with businesses in the textiles, fashion, fresh produce, hospitality, convenience and make-to-order home furnishings sectors, spanning more than 70 years. She is passionate about business success and business performance. Clare says “this isn’t a job for me; it’s a way of life which I absolutely love!”
Clare and Andrew live in St Albans, Hertfordshire and have 2 children.
Clare Rayner, The Retail Champion, can provide keynote presentations on the following topics:
Retail Strategy – How developments in technology, consumer behaviour and the wider market influence retail businesses, and, what can retailers do about it
Retail Planning – Price Elasticity, Range and Space, Product assortment, Merchandise Management, Visual merchandising, Supply Chain management
Retail Operations – Multi-channel retailing, Store management, E-commerce, Fulfilment, customer service
How to leverage social Media for business (B2B or B2C focused) – calling on her own practical expertise and real life case studies as well as sharing examples of what works best for retailers
How to make best use of the internet to market your retail business
Women in Business – As a full time working mother of 2 juggling running a handful of successful businesses, Clare Rayner is ideally placed to speak about her story, highs and lows, and share some of her own experiences.
Entrepreneurialism - Having left “corporate life” and been behind the creation and development of several successful brands, Clare Rayner can share her thoughts on making the choice between employment and entrepreneurialism, and, some practical advice too!
In addition a number of these topics can be delivered as more practical, hands on workshops.
Testimonials are available on request.
Speaker, business mentor and retail consultant Clare Rayner is known as The Retail Champion because of her drive, passion and commitment to helping retailers optimise their business performance.
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