Senior retail & sourcing support

From first idea to retail shelf.

Retail Connection supports founders, brands and suppliers with the practical work of getting products designed, sourced, supplied and ready for retail. One issue, several connected areas, or the full chain.

Rail of garments on wooden hangers
Aerial view of warehousing and logistics
The problem

Most product problems are connected.

A margin issue may start with the spec. A delivery issue may start with sourcing. A retail issue may start with the range or cost story. We help look across the chain, find the cause, and work through it with calm, practical experience.

What we do

Where we help

Designer working on tech-pack sketches with fabric

Product

Clarify the product, range, specification and cost base before decisions get expensive.

ProductRangeSpecificationCost
Container ship and cranes at port

Sourcing

Review supplier options, factory routes, quality expectations, compliance and production risk.

FactoriesSuppliersQualityCompliance
Clothing displayed in a boutique

Retail

Support the commercial story, margin position, account approach and route to shelf.

CommercialMarginRetailersShelf
The difference

Senior experience without the permanent hire

Bring us in for the point where experience makes the difference: a sourcing review, supplier issue, range decision, delivery concern, margin problem or wider product-to-customer plan.

Specific issueFocused support on one defined problem.
Connected supportHelp across linked stages where one decision affects the next.
Full chainSenior support across product, sourcing, supply, commercial and customer.
Scope the support
Specific issue · connected support · full chain.
Tap any stage to scope the support.
Experience

Two decades of hands-on retail and sourcing experience

20+
years in retail & sourcing
Far, near & onshore
supply routes
UK retail
experience incl. major names
Product to customer
supply, commercial & customer
Industrial garment production line