11/18/2024 10:46:59 AM 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,...
10/22/2024 2:46:27 PM 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...
6/8/2022 10:14:43 AM 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...
5/17/2022 8:44:02 AM 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...
5/5/2022 9:48:52 AM 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...
3/28/2022 12:00:00 AM 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...
2/20/2022 9:12:13 AM 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...
1/25/2022 7:03:10 AM 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...
1/18/2022 8:39:23 PM 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...
12/15/2021 9:19:29 AM 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....
11/17/2021 8:04:25 PM 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...
11/2/2021 6:03:13 PM 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...