Retail Marketing Maxim – For People Who Love Retail

As well as retail stimulation, I love a heated discussion or intense exchange of ideas, so if you’ve got an opinion too, please post your contributions on my blog or email me becki@retailmarketingmaxim.co.uk.

I spend all day talking shop - but that still isn’t enough so this site is my personal blog where I post even more moments and mutterings. It is also a mash-up of the best retail articles, blogs and tweets out there (according to Moi!), peppered with my own (not so) humble opinion and musings.

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About Becki Rowe – Retail Marketing Maven

I didn’t choose retail, retail chose me!

Fantasies of a career in forensic anthropology aside (as it turns out, not such a departure afterall) I was at a loss to know what I really wanted to do post university.

To buy some time, I returned to the shop floor where I’d spent weekends and vacations in fashion retail, to support my studies. Taking what I initially considered a temporary role with Estee Lauder, I had an epihany, discovering not only a real talent for turning around sales, relating to customers, leading a retail team but the beginnings of a lifelong obsession with retail.

Since then, working across the fashion, beauty and luxury food sectors, in increasingly ambitious operations and marketing roles, I’ve opened 29 stores (and counting!), built both sales and marketing teams from scratch, rebranded a tired and inconsistent retail estate and been pivotal in successfully launching the bricks and mortar channel of an established online retailer.

And I’m still hungry for much more.

For more detailed information about my career progression and achievements, please see http://www.linkedin.com/in/beckirowe

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