Inside Retail launches hub for independent retailers

Ascential Events, the organisers of retail trade show Pure London, has launched Inside Retail, an online hub designed to deliver insight and inspiration to UK’s independent retailers.

Designed to help independent retailers adapt to increasing transformations in retail, the hub offers 12 months of research among hundreds of indies to offer unique insight into independent mind-set to help achieve success.

The hub brings together information across a range of subjects that independent retailers say they most want to know about, including how to ‘talk’ to customers, product trends, and e-commerce, which Inside Retail states is the number one anxiety among independent retailers, with many worried about how to operate a successful transactional website without blowing the budget.

The site is designed to help retailers at any stage of development, from Getting Started, Up and Running, Branching Out and Fine Tuning, with the information delivered across a mixture of articles, webinars, videos, whitepapers, seminar sessions, masterclasses and reports with tips and advice coming from industry experts.

Articles include, Nine Things to Consider Before Setting up Online, How to Expand from Your First Store and Are Pop-Ups a Smarter Way to Set up Shop?.

Commenting on the launch, Ascential Events divisional director of retail, Louise Young, said: “Independent retailers are at the heart of our business, with tens of thousands attending our events each year. It is independent retailers that set the pace of retail creativity and innovation for the wider industry.

“During our year-round research with them, it’s become clear that they have more to think about than ever before. The idea of Inside Retail is to give them insight and inspiration about how to use retail disruption to their advantage, taking on board advice from the peers and experts they need to run their businesses.”

Image: courtesy of Inside Retail