Javelin Group has six service lines covering all of the functions and channels within retail. While our company is organised in line with these practices, many of our projects cut across more than one. Our ability to deliver such multi-disciplinary projects is one of our core strengths.
Retail Strategy
Retailers are constantly looking for ways to gain a competitive edge by exploiting their differentiated proposition or more efficient operations to drive. This means that, for the best retailers, continual innovation is at the heart of their business. With our experience and mix of skills, we are well placed to help them focus their efforts on those initiatives most likely to succeed. Our strategy team works with senior management in retailers and consumer goods firms to help them assess the best business opportunities, shaping their proposition and formats and determining the best new markets or channels for them to enter.
Commercial & Operational Due Diligence
Our commercial and operational due diligence practice works with private equity investors to give a thorough assessment of companies they are looking to acquire, ranging from smaller niche businesses to large high street retailers. Using a multi-disciplinary team we assess the external market place and competitive environment, the strength of the target’s proposition and business model, and the target’s store locations and roll-out potential, operations, technology and management team. Such a thorough appraisal helps us to understand any risks and opportunities which may be faced by the acquirers, and how to manage these.
Retail Operations
Our operations team works with retailers to help improve their processes, from source to store. This team combines skills across the retail value chain including logistics, buying and merchandising, and store operations.
Multi-Channel Retail
Our operations team works with retailers to help improve their processes, from source to store. This team combines skills across the retail value chain including logistics, buying and merchandising, and store operations.
Retail Technology
We provide our clients with two principal technology services. Our team of consultants helps our retailers to select the right technology packages to meet their business needs. These include ecommerce platforms for transactional websites as well as point of sale systems for in-store transactions. We make it our business to keep abreast of all of the leading and emerging technologies in the retail space, sometimes introducing pioneering technologies into our market from overseas to ensure that our clients benefit from the solutions that are best for them.
Retail Locations & Shopping Centres
Our locations team works with two client groups. They advise shopping centre owners and property developers on the commercial viability and optimum tenant mix for both existing and planned shopping centres. Our team has advised on over 100 developments across the UK and Europe including prominent shopping centres such as Bluewater, Bullring and Buchanan Galleries. This team also advises retailers on their store portfolio strategy, planning roll-out and international expansion and optimising or rationalising existing store chains. The team has worked with over 100 retailers on their store location strategies, with recent clients including Nike, Sony and Kurt Geiger.
