Nov 18, 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,...
Oct 22, 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...
Jun 08, 2022 Adapting to Survive By Tony Wright Perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me that my last post – topped and tailed with a pair of lyrics from The Specials – raised...
May 17, 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...
May 05, 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...
Mar 28, 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...
Feb 20, 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...
Jan 25, 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...
Jan 18, 2022 It's like 460 A.D. all over again... By Alastair Massey One of the secret pleasures of working in FRP's Cannon Street offices is the knowledge that we are literally sitting above one of...
Dec 15, 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....
Nov 17, 2021 Are rumours of the death of the High Street exaggerated? By Alastair Massey Tony Wright Russell Loarridge’s (UK director of customer identity firm, ReachFive) interview in City A.M. caught my eye today. He makes the point...
Nov 02, 2021 Finding the balance? By David Hudson The rising costs and logistical issues of a supply chain certainly produce challenges to all businesses, coupled with the anticipated...