Let's make your retail dreams a reality, together.
Whether you're strategizing for the big league or diving into the nitty-gritty of deployment, we've got your back.
Consider us your strategic partners, ready to tailor our support to your specific needs and goals.
Consider us your strategic partners, ready to tailor our support to your specific needs and goals.
Brand Retail Solutions mission:
curate successful retail deployment
solutions
Brand Retail Solutions is a retail consulting agency dedicated to
supporting companies
in their early or mature deployment phase of physical store openings.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive
support that covers every aspect of a successful store launch,
from organizational structure, sourcing to sustainability.
Your strategic requirements
Helping you defining
the key strategic elements to
kick off your physical retail
launch.
Define retail formats
Define the different retail formats required to cover the variety of
environments and location types considered
in your business plan.
Team structure
Defines roles and responsibilities while clarifying the need for internal vs.
external resources.
external resources.
Deployment proceses
Map interactions and flow of information
between stakeholders. Develop the library of forms and templates to ensure consistency.
Your deployment requirements in 6 steps
Thanks to
a network of partners, we
can support you in every step of
your opening
process, get your organization ready,
and find
the right long term partners as
your needs
and maturity evolve.
Ensuring that this is the right location for your brand and business.
2. Site survey
Site visit with a local architect to assess the site complexity and avoid future surprises during permit and construction.
3. Preliminary project
Preliminary design with planning and budget projection. Engage with lease terms and conditions negotiation.
4. Project phase
Detailed store design, including engineering development.
Submissions for permits and licences. Updated timeline and budget.
5. Execution phase
Tendering and bids
to select a construction vendor. Space handover, demolition, construction,
and furniture manufacturing.
Operational installation (IT, staff, stock, …)
Visual merchandizing
Digital communication
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Our professional services offer
An la carte, end to end offer to support your retail roll out and operation
Design solutions
From the smallest touch point to your largest concept declination, including travel retail and POSM, we can connect you with experienced designers who understand your brand DNA and the experience you aim at delivering to your customers.
Real Estate
Our team and partners can assist you in location strategy for permanent or temporary stores, real estate negotiations and back office support.
A multi lingual service offered by independent consultants with no conflict of interest and with the highest confidentiality. A service that allows you to focus on added value tasks and keep your property team to the optimal size.
Organization
We provide organizational support to
define the best structure, set up teams, and develop processes and guidelines enabling a smooth roll out.
Sourcing
Our team supports you in your sourcing
decisions (furniture production, site selection, and lease negotiation),
develop contracts and templates, leveraging a global network of designers,
architects, and general contractors worldwide.
Sustainability
We prioritize sustainability in all
aspects of the store opening process. We help you define your pledge
and commitment to sustainability, and provide ongoing support to ensure it
remains a priority throughout the store's life cycle.
Project Management Platform
To ensure the smooth and efficient
execution of store opening, we implement a project management platform to
collect and analyze data. We define needs, select the right tool, implement and
develop reporting dashboards and KPI trackers.
Deep dive into Real Estate and Supplier selection
The type of suppliers you need may evolve over time. You can rely on our extensive network of retail seasoned specialists present in over 100 countries.
Real estate
- Due diligence and lease review
- Lease abstract and database creation
- Back office support and lease management
- Independant and confidential multi-lingual service
Network of suppliers
- We rely on a network of over 200 suppliers strategically located in areas around the globe.
- Furniture (permanent and temporary
- Key fixtures and material sourcing
- General contractors and local architects
Global presence
- We have been operating in over 120 countries covering all continents : Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, Americas and Africa.
Deep dive into store deployment set up
Defining the optimum organization based on your needs and ambitions is the first step.
Baked up with the definition and formalization of the process clarifying the roles and responsibilities.
Which organization do you need?
- Define the best structure
- Develop the job description recruitment
support
- Evaluate skills to be internalized vs. externalized
Define the processes
- Clarify scope and responsibilities of each stakeholder
Documentation
-
Develop and document processes
- Create personalized documentation (forms and templates) to harmonize terminology and ways of working
Deep dive into Sustainability
“Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.” - Gro Harlem Brundtland.
How can I be more sustainable in my retail operation ?
- Define the pledge and commitment for the retail network
- Prioritize actions towards sustainable deployment
- Leverage UN Sustainability Development Goals
Let's implement
- Evaluate suppliers capabilities
- Consider impact of concept and optimize
- Include day to day running operation impact
Manage ESG reporting including retail
-
Collect and process data for
the company sustainability report
- Issue statements on progress for investors
- Calculate and update Scope 1, 2 and 3 emission
Deep dive inton platform implementation
You need to track your network, your leases and the cost of the opening of these touch points.
Therefore you need a tool that will provide you with the master data enabling your reporting.
Which platform do you need?
- Assess the needs based on the tools already used in your organization
- Support the RFP and selection process
Define data structure and implement
- The core of the success is linked to the data structure
- Collect data and implement
- Test workflows and release to user
Reporting
- Develop the reporting dashboards
- Define the KPI tracked and their frequency
OUR COMPANY IN NUMBERS
Why choose us?
Retail has evolved over the years and is regularly opposed to digital.
The reality is that consumers crave experiential retail.
We will bring our experience to build or refine your brick and mortar retail.
20+
Years of experience
100+
Countries
200+
Experienced suppliers
Philippe Josse
Founder and Senior Consultant
Philippe has launched his consulting firm
after 20+ years in the retail and hospitality industry. He recently served as Global Head of Retail Development and
Deployment at Philip
Morris International (IQOS), supporting experiential formats deployment in markets worldwide at a fast pace (250 boutiques and over 2,000
shop-in-shops).
He has extensive experience in managing
the deployment
of retail formats
and developing retail
networks,
steering budgets from 10K$ to 6 Mio$. Prior to this role, he held similar
positions at Nestlé
Nespresso
(750
boutiques) and Haägen-Dazs (85 franchises). He also worked as a
quality assurance consultant for Deloitte-LRA Worldwide for luxury hotel chains customer experience.
Philippe holds an MBA in Management from ESSEC Business School and has completed executive education
programs in Leadership and Leading Digital Business
Transformation from
London
Business School and
IMD, respectively. He’s a certified SCRUM Product Owner to manage digital projects and holds a Digital marketing certificate from London Business School.
Philippe has a genuine interest in sustainability and is a graduate of the CISL Sustainability Leadership Program at Cambridge University. As a B Corp Affiliate, he can support your organization in your B Corp certification journey.
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