18 Nov, 2024 We Reap What We Sow By Luke Wilson There are always triumphs and setbacks in life and business, but will the post-budget world amount to anything more than the cyclical,...
22 Oct, 2024 Working up a storm - the FRP Question Time pre-budget review By Luke Wilson With a select group of business leaders eagerly awaiting the outcome of Ms Reeves Budget, there was an inquisitive air and a lot of...
24 Sep, 2024 Retail Conference ’24: Evolving risk By Molly Sandquest When we think about crime in the retail space, it’s more often than not shoplifting or ‘shrinkage’ that comes to mind. However, while...
19 Sep, 2024 Retail Conference ’24: Managing cashflow for success By Ben Hughes Our 2024 FRP Retail Conference on the 25th September will be a chance for retailers, lawyers, accountants, forensic specialists,...
16 Jan, 2024 From boom to bust? By Patrick Donnan A very interesting article in the FT today with some useful analysis in respect of the online vs. high street debate in the retail space....
06 Jan, 2023 2023, a better year? By Simon Baggs This morning the Telegraph is reporting that Lord Wolfson of Next believes that in negotiating their forward contracts for mid-2023 they...
21 Oct, 2022 The Continued Pace of Innovation in Retail Supply Chains By Alastair Massey Necessity– as the saying goes – is the mother of invention. It’s a saying with contested origins. Some cite Aesop’s fables as the...
14 Jul, 2022 Three simple steps for beleagured retailers By Alastair Massey “The future ain’t what it used to be” (attr. Yogi Berra) I always keep an eye out for Springboard’s retail footfall figures. For those...
17 May, 2022 The fall, and fall, of the Shopping Centre By Tony Wright “Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town? We danced and sang, and the music played in the boomtown” Those with a more...
05 May, 2022 Rents, Rates, Reform – A Timely Manifesto for Change in the Retail Property Market By Phil Reynolds It is, of course, a truism that the only thing we can be certain about is uncertainty. But I was put in mind of this again as we were...
28 Mar, 2022 Plenty to chew over at the inaugural FRP Retail Breakfast Club By Alastair Massey Winston Churchill once quipped “My wife and I tried two or three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so...
28 Mar, 2022 Putting the Fizz back into the Retail Experience By Alastair Massey “Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft...
20 Feb, 2022 The Return of the Roaring Twenties? By Alastair Massey “History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.” Mark Twain was never short of a good aphorism, and this particular line has been...
25 Jan, 2022 Grim reading for retailers from the ONS By Tony Wright On the 15th of December, just days after the government’s “Plan B” announcement, I wrote that the importance of the impact on the last...
15 Dec, 2021 What does 'Plan B' mean for the retail sector? By Tony Wright Legendary Republic of Ireland and Leeds United midfielder, Michael “Johnny” Giles, once quipped that “Great teams always have a Plan B....
23 Nov, 2021 Feeling the pulse - UK Retail and Hospitality By David Hudson We're proud to be launching our inaugural Pulse report today, from our Insight team. This is a new approach to evaluating the state of...