Retail Archives - The Norman Broadbent Group

In Consumer, Retail

Covid Leadership:

With Brexit on the horizon, 2020 was always likely to have its challenges; no one, however, could quite have predicted events thus far. You could argue that leadership has never been more critical – the consumer-facing industries, which rely heavily both on footfall and discretionary...

September 18, 2020

In CFO, Retail

A changing mix of proposition (and people)

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. Thomas Cook went into liquidation … Ted Baker swung from a £24.5m profit to a £23m LFL loss for the 28 weeks to August 10 … and even Aldi, with its outstanding track record of...

October 17, 2019

In Retail

D2C Retailing – Evolution or Revolution?

Direct to consumer retailers have been the success story of the 2010s. Brands such as Harry’s, Caspar, Made.com, and others, have gone from fledgling start-ups to agile VC backed businesses. As they continue to evolve, market expectations are defied, and the traditional retail space is...

October 17, 2019

In Retail

Good Leaders Wanted … Apply Within

A perennial question which preoccupies business leaders and their executive search partners centres on understanding how, and where, to find the leaders of today and tomorrow. Of course, there is no easy answer. Networks and an understanding of the market are built over many years,...

May 15, 2019

In News, Retail

Leadership: To infinity and beyond …

Leadership: To infinity and beyond … What constitutes a good leader? The response you might have received 10 or 20 years ago would have been very different to today’s answer. At Norman Broadbent we seek to answer this question every day as we work to identify,...

March 5, 2019

In Interim Management, News, Retail, Solutions

Brexit: What Lies Beneath?

With the incessant talk of backstops, customs unions and a shifting March 29th deadline, BREXIT still dominates the political and economic landscape almost to the exclusion of all else. However, in the background (and almost unseen), there are potential shifts taking place creating an economic...

February 27, 2019

In News, Real Estate & Property, Retail

Where next for property?

With Brexit continuing to dominate domestic politics, the fallout and impact for businesses will certainly be evident through the first quarter of 2019. In this climate, the uncertainty will complicate some portfolio decision making. You only have to look at the property pipeline in Central London...

January 28, 2019

In News, Retail

Discovering Retails Next Generation Leaders

When identifying any group of potential future leaders, naturally, it is the conventional organisational and commercial needs that dominate, as do the particular sector or functional requirements of the role. Given that most would accept we are experiencing a period of very rapid and accelerating...

January 28, 2019

In News, Retail

The Retail Market Update 2018-2019

For a number of reasons, the New Year is often a time for career change. This makes the pre/post-Christmas period a busy time for Executive Search professionals. As usual, we are having numerous discussions with businesses who are looking to succession plan, to replace or...

January 28, 2019

In CFO, News, Retail

#Retail2018: Anyone learnt anything?

Plummeting share prices, profit warnings, C-Suite exits, rising costs, tech/online disruption, and changes in consumer behaviour: just some of challenges many Retail leaders faced last year. Against this backdrop, demand is higher than ever for CFOs (Interim or FTE) with significant change/transformation expertise to help...

January 28, 2019