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Nick Bubb, Retail Analyst
Nick Bubb has been a leading retailing analyst in the City for over 30 years, spanning a number of different stockbrokers and investment banks (including Arden, Morgan Stanley and Societe Generale). He is a well-known commentator on UK retailing in the press and is also very knowledgeable about shopping centres.
Nick graduated from Christ Church, Oxford (MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics). He is married, with 2 children and lives in Richmond in Surrey, where he spends much of his spare time gardening, reading and watching cricket.
Prof. John Dawson, Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling
John Dawson is Emeritus Professor at The Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling, Scotland and a visiting Professor at University of Valencia where he has research projects and participates on regular retail management programmes. John is also associated with several Universities in Japan where he has a number of research projects funded by the Japanese Government. His degrees are in Geography, Town Planning, and Retailing. Research interests are across retailing where he has been actively studying retail activity since the mid1960s. Over this extended period he has worked on projects with many large and small companies and with UK and Scottish governments and the European Commission in addition to more traditional academic research. John is a frequent contributor to management seminars and conferences in UK and elsewhere. Current research is on retailer internationalisation, marketing strategies in retailing, retailer-supplier relationships, and the measurement of the retail sector. Most of this current research is in Europe and East Asia. He has also held visiting positions elsewhere in Europe, South Africa, USA, Australia and Japan.
Dr. Tim Denison, Synovate Retail Performance
Dr Tim Denison BSc MSc PhD MCIM is Director of Retail Intelligence at Ipsos Retail Performance, the UK's market leader in performance improvement systems for retailers. He is also a regular commentator, broadcaster and conference speaker on retail matters, particularly those related to behavioural issues. Trained formally as a social scientist and a marketer, Tim has worked for Ipsos Retail Performance for 16 years. Before that he managed the Institute for Advanced Research in Marketing at Cranfield School of Management, where he specialised in retail and consumer branding issues, working on key research and policy initiatives on behalf of organisations such as the European Commission, BP and Ford.
Helen Dickinson, KPMG
Helen Dickinson is a Partner & UK Head of Retail at KPMG. She is regularly quoted in the trade and national media on retail sales trends and other sector issues and also comments on industry topics in her bi-weekly column in Retail Bulletin.
KPMG is an associate member of the British Retail Consortium and Helen works closely with the BRC in a number of areas including the analysis, sponsorship and administration of the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. She has focused on retail since 1995 and been a Partner since 2002. She works with many retailers across all sectors including food, clothing, furniture and department stores.
As Head of Retail for KPMG since December 2004, Helen has overall responsibility for leading and developing KPMG's retail practice in the UK including development of multidisciplinary value propositions and thought leadership focused on the sector.
Richard Lowe, Barclays Retail & Wholesale Sectors
Richard Lowe has been a corporate banker for nearly 30 years, and has provided advisory and specialist banking services to retailers and wholesalers in the UK & Ireland for the past 13 years.
As Head of Retail & Wholesale at Barclays Corporate he and his London team of sixteen dedicated relationship directors, together with a further 90 relationship directors across the UK & Ireland are responsible for over 4400 clients ranging from boutique fashion houses and high street booksellers to department stores, all with turnovers in excess of £5m. Additionally, retailers and wholesalers are offered access to the products and expertise of the other businesses in the Barclays Group including the investment banking solutions of Barclays Capital and the private wealth management services of Barclays Wealth.
Richard is a regular commentator in the national, regional and trade media on retail trends and industry issues as well as retail sales figures. Away from the office he is an avid reader, believing you never stop learning when you have a good book to hand. When time allows he is also a motor racing enthusiast. He is married with 2 children and lives in Hertfordshire.
Vicky Redwood, Capital Economics
Vicky Redwood is the senior UK economist at Capital Economics, specialising in the consumer and retail sectors. Vicky examines the forces acting on consumer finances and spending and assesses how likely economic developments will affect the various sub-sectors of spending. She is frequently quoted in the press and appears regularly on television and radio.
Vicky joined Capital Economics in 2003 from the Bank of England, where she was a UK economist specialising in the UK corporate and household sectors. She contributed to Bank of England publications including the Financial Stability Review, as well as writing working papers on household balance sheets and business failures. Before working at the Bank, Vicky studied Economics at Oxford and Warwick.
Neil Saunders, Managing Director, Conlumino
Neil is Managing Director of Conlumino, a research agency specialising in retail and consumer research. In this role he heads up client projects working with retail and consumer related companies to help develop, evolve and implement business strategies.
Prior to Conlumino, Neil worked at Verdict for over ten years where, before the companys acquisition, he was a board director with responsibility for Consulting, Corporate Development and Planning. Latterly, he was Consulting Director and responsible for all bespoke and consulting projects.
Before Verdict, Neil worked for the John Lewis Partnership where he was involved, among other things, in the planning and relocation of new stores, the development of the John Lewis website and the creation of technical and information systems.
Neil serves as a non-executive director of the train operating company First Great Western and is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Management, University of Surrey.
Mark Teale, CB Richard Ellis
Mark Teale joined CB Richard Ellis (Hillier Parker) in 1986. Initially setting up a retail project consultancy team, Mark was appointed Head of Retail Research in 1989. Mark's research team specialises in retail property related consumer market research and forecasting but covers all aspects of retail research including information development for market analysis systems, shopping development viability studies, store location analysis and benchmarking.
Mark was responsible for establishing the industry's first shopping centre trading audits for rent review purposes. Mark also pioneered The National Survey of Local Shopping Patterns (NSLSP) survey, the largest continuous household survey programme of shopping destination preferences undertaken in the retail industry. The NSLSP survey is widely used by leading store groups for locational analysis purposes and by property/planning organisations for impact forecasting.
Mark is now primarily concerned with the development of local forecasting and benchmarking applications and related retail property market measurement applications.
