Strathtay Consulting was started in 2010 by Colin Buchanan in response to requests from retailers, brands and shopping center developers seeking growth beyond the UK and wishing to expand profitably overseas.
Practical Advice and Support
Strathtay Consulting provides hands–on practical advice and support to retail or brand management teams at all levels that are grappling with the complexities of multi–country expansion.
Our experience and main focus are the faster growing parts of the world, Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, where we have a significant number of contacts.
We are ideally suited to help the smaller emerging retailers and brands that cannot afford to recruit sufficient experience to steer them through the challenges of overseas expansion.
International Expansion
Many retailers have relied on their home markets as the main source of growth, but with Western economies struggling the need to expand beyond home shores has now become an imperative.
Strathtay Consulting can help minimize the risks and maximize the opportunity by specifically providing help with:
- Consumer and cultural insights and market differences
- Entry strategies, how to get started.
- Local ways of doing business and contacts
- Business format, franchise, j.v or wholly owned and how to decide.
- Legal considerations
- Financial implications
- Pitfalls
If international expansion is part of your future strategy, and Asia, Central/Eastern Europe or the Middle East are in your sights, please contact us for an initial chat to learn more that only experience can teach.
