The HONEST broker
Town Centres are very often dynamic places and all retailers understand this
- it is what gives retailers a buzz. What can be more difficult to deal with
for small businesses is when large scale development is proposed.
SME Retailers very often find it challenging to effectively communicate with
local authorities and developers; yet these organisations have the ability
to alter and directly affect an SME retailer's business environment.
WELBECK retail
has a great deal of experience in liaising between these groups — our
people are time served retailers with experience in town centre management
schemes, major civil engineering developments in town centres and in the marketing
of areas.
WELBECK retail
can act as brokers and intermediaries to ensure good communications and work
to protect the best interests of the town centre and the SME retailers who
have committed to it.
Effective communications
Problems that our team have been involved with include business disruption
contingency planning for a large number of businesses where their town centre
was to have been effectively 'closed' for a number of months because of civil
engineering works.
The work done by WELBECK retail
ensured that the businesses were able to thrive during this period when all
retailers in the area had been concerned the work being done would end their
businesses.
By acting as intermediaries in a complex three-way relationship, WELBECK
retail were able to communicate effectively with
the planning authority, the constructors and project managers and, of course,
the retailers themselves.
Looking after your interests
Retailers and other businesses can often arrive at situations, not of their
making, whereby other organisations who may not fully understand the needs
or concerns of the SME retailer are in a position to potentially threaten
otherwise viable businesses.
WELBECK retail's
intermediary service is there to ensure that your business is not adversely
affected by others.