Clare Bailey speaks at many conferences and events, delivering keynote presentations on a variety of topics including retail, high streets, supply chains, consumer engagement and customer services. Her expertise and ongoing experience working with High Street businesses allow her to speak in a thought-provoking, personable and professional manner. 

Buy a copy of Clare's second book, 'How to Sell to Retail: The Secrets of Getting Your Product to Market', ideal for any business looking to supply products or services to the retail industry. Every reader gets exclusive access to a whole range of free, downloadable resources, including tools that our consulting team use in our 1-2-1 coaching services. Buy a copy of How to Sell to Retail now!

For those who prefer to have support as and when they need it, rather than as part of a structured programme, business consulting for suppliers to retail may be more suitable for your requirements. Book Clare's time, to benefit from her extensive expertise, and she can help you with any aspect - from preparing your business to go to market to delivering the perfect pitch. Find our more about business consulting services.

Marketing helps build brand awareness, brand engagement and sales conversion. Our marketing specialists can support businesses in developing their brand positioning and messaging, identifying target customers and creating offline and digital marketing strategies based on your key business objectives.

Clare Bailey is a regular media commentator, covering topics such as the high street, the retail industry, and consumer topics, often featured on UK and international TV and radio channels, including BBC, Sky, Channel 5, Bloomberg, ITV and various other outlets. 

Media Training and Presentation Skills enhance your ability to communicate and present yourself effectively in both the media and in public speaking situations. We can help teach techniques that convey your business’ message clearly, whilst giving you the confidence to handle media interviews.

Change is crucial for growth and survival, especially for High Street businesses wanting to develop a competitive edge or looking to scale up. The Retail Champion supports businesses with how to deal with various types of change.

Retail Champion’s Coaching Programme keeps you on track, focusing your time on value-adding activities that will guide you towards achieving your business objectives. The programme helps you to develop strategies to your customer base, revenue streams and channels to market, ultimately growing your profit.

Finance and accounting business support is a valuable resource for businesses to efficiently manage their finances. We offer a wide range of financial support from what to include in sales and financial reports and how to interpret the data through to financial planning, budgeting and cash flow management, providing businesses with insights for informed decision-making.

The Retail Champion's experienced business engagement team can help involve local businesses in place audits and stakeholder consultation. Our work helps local councils, Business Improvement Districts and trade associations understand the challenges and opportunities for their place, ensuring place making strategies are tailored to the needs of their local community.

Our team of experienced marketing professionals have created marketing strategies and campaigns for a range of places including towns and shopping centres, growing the digital presence of a place, increasing engagement with local businesses and with the community . Our campaigns increase a places brand profile, invite footfall and ultimately contribute to the overall vitality and prosperity of that place.

Clare Bailey offers her light-hearted insights into her experiences of life growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, working for major corporate brands, creating and running a successful business, and juggling the responsibilities of being a busy, working mum and business owner. Audiences can relate her warm and personable stories told in an entertaining and professional way.

Smaller businesses typically have neither budget or need for a full-time, dedicated, professional resource to manage their PR, Marketing and Business Development. This service gives you the flexibility of a dedicated professional, on a retained basis, to maximise your business growth based on the needs of your business. Find our more about outsourced business development services.

Place audits help local place makers understand the current challenges and opportunities relevant to their place to help inform place making strategies. Our team can complete audits to assess and understand a location's assets, challenges and opportunities and can engage with stakeholders to understand their aspirations for their place, what their current challenges are, and where they see the priorities for developing the economic, social and financial prosperity of where they work.