Clare Bailey (Previously Rayner)
The Retail Champion
Clare Bailey, The Retail Champion, is one of the most well-known and respected retail consultants in the UK. A child born into a family of retailers and entrepreneurs, she is passionate about retail and business: it is in her blood.
Clare started out as a fast-track graduate store management trainee for McDonalds and went on to work with leading retailers such as M&S, Dixons and Argos. She moved swiftly into management roles before being headhunted into senior consulting roles with global software giant SAP, and international management consulting brand, Accenture.
Known as The Retail Champion, Clare is engaged by clients as a retail consultant, professional speaker and business mentor. She is regularly called upon by BBC News (TV and Radio) and trade press to comment as a retail expert. Her retail business book, The Retail Champion: 10 Steps to Retail Success is specifically written to enable independent retailers to become scalable, saleable businesses.
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The Retail Champion's expertise comes from decades working in retail and hospitality for national and independent High Street businesses. Working with a trusted team of experts we can support businesses looking for growth through business strategy, new sales channels, marketing, e-commerce solutions, supply chain management and much more.
How the Retail Champion Can Help You!
The Retail Champion mentoring programmes are tailored to provide you with exactly what you need to take your business forward; be that mentoring, advice, support, consultancy, project management or training.
Retail Success
The aim of Retail Success is to help all business develop processes and systems that are both robust and repeatable, with an end goal to create scale-able - and sellable - enterprises. There are several ways to get involved with the Retail Success Programme; each designed to work around you, your business and your preferred way of learning from participating in the ten steps programme, mentoring, consultancy services to outsourcing marketing to the Retail Champion.
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Whichever level of engagement you choose, you can rest assured that when we work with you on your business, you can look forward to developing robust, repeatable processes and systems that will enable you to develop a scalable, saleable and profitable enterprise. Let us help you to develop a go-to-market strategy that will make retail buyers sit up and take notice!
Read MoreBusiness Support for SMEs
Our panel of experts at the Retail Champion offer comprehensive business support for SMEs to drive growth and success. Our experience supporting retail and hospitality businesses can be applied to any businesses selling to consumers. Our insights in consumer selling can also help you build an effective business-to-business strategy. Support available encompasses the key areas to help you launch or scale up your business from strategy development to delivering implementation.
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As one of the UK's leading business speakers, Clare Bailey has experience of a wide variety of public and professional speaking engagements. She is a knowledgeable and engaging media contributor and regularly features as a commentator on BBC and commercial TV and radio channels, providing insights and analysis for topical news and consumer shows.
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Since 2010, Clare has helped thousands of retailers through her books, retail training, and mentoring programmes.