MPC ASSOCIATES
marketing, management and economic consultants

RETAIL DEVELOPMENT

MPC's Retail Location and Development Planning

MPC reviews the fundamentals of retailing and building your business, beginning with site location and finishing with the satisfaction of your customers.  A business grows, but it needs to be cultivated properly from the start.  MPC helps you handle the process of business planting and growth right through to collecting the payback harvest and reinvestment.  Whether you are starting, consolidating or expanding, we can help you review your operations in an objective light and enhance your success.

The diagram above shows a range of MPC's development planning operations experience, but this is by no means an exhaustive list.  Please contact us for further examples.  MPC has always been at the forefront of retail development, following and influencing the changing patterns of shopping: 

  • 1970's 
    Out-of-town supermarket development
     

    (Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury, Low Cost Discount (now Safeway), Ahold (Albert Heijn), Carrefour and Promodes.  

  • 1970s & 1980's
    Multi-Activity Family Entertainment Centre development
     

    fusing retail and leisure activities, following comprehensive research into leisure activities in the USA

  • 1990's
    Helping independent retail outlets to survive
    through specialization. 
    Extensive consumer market research in Toulouse, Evreux, Bristol, and Hereford evaluating the needs of shoppers.

See MPC's History page for more details

The steps to business development outlined below will take you through MPC's work in the retail sector.  We will be able to benefit your company through some or all of the steps that follow.

 

Go direct within this section through the STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL RETAIL BUSINESS:

Retailing Services
Marketing strategy part 1
Marketing strategy part 2
Site location
Research and B2B  
Internet strategy 
Construction project management 
Project management part 1
Project management part 2
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Or explore the ups and downs of business life 
through our snakes and ladders board

MPC's game of Snakes and Ladders

 

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MPC Associates
Pavilion House, Cradley, Nr. Malvern, Worcestershire WR13 5NP
Tel: 01886 880500; Fax: 01886 880848
Email: mpc@mpcassociates.com