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The Serve Group

Principal: Duncan Kemp

 

 

contact details:
  The Serve Group
Fireside Cottage
Carbinswood Lane
Upper Woolhampton
Reading
Berkshire     RG7 5UA
UK
tel: 01189 712 777
fax: .
mobile: 07702 104 562
email: duncan.kemp@btinternet.com

10-11-06  

Key Services Offered:
Practical Business Support and development to SMEs - my specialism is retail turnaround, covering all industries where I have had significant success increasing sales and profits. I also have significant experience, helping entrepreneurs understand the routes to market and helping them gain significant sales into retailers.

Core Experience of Principals:
Sales to retail and wholesale accounts, including Costco, TK Maxx, JJB, Sports Soccer, Sports Direct, Lakeland, Scotts of Stow and M and M Sports. Retail turnaround, dramatically increasing sales in a short period of time. Specific successes have been in sports and florists but the formula and fundamentals apply to every retailer. Normally only a small investment (hundreds of pounds not thousands) in additional equipment is required. Developing and designing new products (clothing, textiles, homeware and toiletries) and brands with customers, sourcing them through an importer, covering all the QC requirements and critical path issues. Having run my own business for 12 years I am aware of a vast number of pitfalls to avoid and business to go after.

 

Qualifications & Accreditations:
Accredited Associate, Institute for Independent Business (AInstIB). Successful track record of supplying practical business solutions tailored to the client's requirements and circumstances.

Industry Sectors worked in:
Retail and wholesale distribution of sports and casual clothing. Sports clubs.

Worked with a number of SMEs closely to develop their core strengths and increase their profits significantly.

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