About US

WE SPECIALISE IN THE RETAIL and Consumer SECTORS AND focus on BUSINESSES THAT ARE GOING THROUGH SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

We aim to improve liquidity and maximise returns to all stakeholders. We bring years of hands-on retail operational experience and truly understand the difficulties our clients are going through.

We specialise in dealing with retail businesses going through significant change and the realisation of the difficult challenges they face.

The range of services we offer our clients is specifically aimed at realising cost reduction and improved profits. We bring years of hands-on operational experience and truly understand the difficulties our clients are going through.

Why Us

Because we are retailers at heart – we get it.

We have operated on both sides of the fence. As CEO’s and investors, we have dealt with exactly the same problems and issues as our clients. As advisors, we understand retailers from an external perspective.

With access to over a hundred experienced retail operators across Europe, we work only with the best. We ensure that they have the necessary skills required to get the most out of people and the maximum commercial outcome.

We have access to the necessary capital, and we make decisions without time-consuming approval processes and investment committees.

We are approachable and easy to deal with, never bringing you additional problems, just realistic solutions.

You will only deal with the founding partners and won’t be handed over to a less experienced person.

Above all, we will always deliver the results we have agreed.

TO BE THE FIRST PORT OF CALL FOR RETAILERS, ADVISORS, LENDERS AND INVESTORS.

TO BE the uK’s and EUROPE’S LEADING RETAIL and consumer SPECIALIST.

Our
Mission

Our Values

We always do what we say we’ll do.

We are candid and will give you an honest opinion in plain language, with no unfamiliar terminology.

We always deliver the results that we have agreed with no nasty surprises.

We focus on a win:win outcome.

Your brand is safe with us and you and your teams can rely on us for support whenever you need it.

We are good in a crisis and will never let a problem get the better of us.

We maintain a stress-free approach, even in the most pressured situations, making our client’s jobs easier, allowing them to focus on the core of their business.

We look at every problem through independent eyes with little reliance on external parties.

The Retail Realisation Investment Team

Joe

JOSEPH PRICE

MANAGING PARTNER

  • Extensive experience of direct investment and advisory services to a variety of small-cap and large multi-jurisdictional retail clients
  • Previously Director at Kroll, having spent 2 years at AlixPartners in Turnaround and Restructuring
  • Commenced career within Investment and Finance team at Gordon Brothers
  • ACA and CFA qualified
 
 
Steve Curtis

STEVE CURTIS

CHAIRMAN

  • Over 40 years’ retail sector experience as an operator, turnaround professional and investor
  • Multi award-winning Chairman with a proven track record of building and developing teams to grow businesses
  • Recent transactions include Jigsaw, Paperchase, Feather & Black, Rolling Luggage and Tie Rack
  • Early corporate career in listed subsidiaries, including Marley, Boots, WH Smith and Whitbread
Jamie Constable

JAMIE CONSTABLE

INVESTMENT ADVISOR

  • Multi award-winning investor, including the IFT’s Investor of the Year
  • Advisor to the Flight & Partners Recovery Fund
  • Founder, advisor and investor in Rcapital, Quilam Capital, Blazehill Capital and numerous direct investments in UK companies
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants
 
 
Alex John

ALEX JOHN

INVESTMENT ADVISOR

  • Previously Partner at mid-market M&A advisory firm, Arrowpoint Advisory
  • 15 years’ experience in M&A and fundraising, and has completed over 70 transactions, including sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A and private equity buyouts
  • Qualified chartered accountant, having begun his career at KPMG
 
 
Jamie

JAMIE CAIRNS

INVESTMENT MANAGER

  • Four years’ experience in Kroll’s Restructuring Advisory practice, with a specific Retail / Consumer focus
  • Sell side experience on both M&A and AMA transactions
  • Buy side experience in executing transactions and operating portfolio companies
  • ACCA qualified 

TARA WESSELY

INVESTMENT MANAGER

  • Six years working in the Restructuring and Advisory practice at Moore Kingston Smith, which included company and creditor-side advisory mandates across retail, consumer and other sectors
  • Experience on M&A and AMA transactions, turnaround and early options
  • ACCA qualified

JOEL BULLIVANT

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

  • Three years’ experience in EY’s
    Assurance practice, working with
    clients in the FMCG and retail
    sectors
  • Experience spanning from large cap UK and US listed groups to mid-sized Private Equity owned companies
  • Qualified chartered accountant
    (ICAS)
 

LUCY WELLS

EVENTS & OFFICE MANAGER

  • Lucy is responsible for the smooth running of Retail Realisation events, office management and the administration side of the business.
  • Lucy has extensive office management and executive assistant experience within a variety of industries.
    • BA (Hons) degree from the University of Leeds and an MA PG Dip from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.

The Retail Realisation Operations Team

Milton

MILTON GUFFOGG

SENIOR ADVISOR & FOUNDER

  • 45 years’ retail sector experience
  • Retail operator, turnaround professional, corporate finance advisor, consultant
  • Founding partner of Alteri Investors and previously CEO of GA Europe
  • CEO of Celebrations Group and Paperchase
  • Senior operational roles for Burton, Woolworths, K Shoes, NAAFI, Courts, Bewise, Scholl
Amanda

AMANDA WETZ

OPERATIONS – UK

  • 30 years’ retail sector experience
  • Worked across many diverse sectors in the UK, Germany and Netherlands
  • Previously Retail Director for Jones Bootmaker and Intertoys
  • Experienced in trade outs, liquidations and administrations
  • Holds HR and project management qualifications
 
Andy

ANDY HAYZELDEN

OPERATIONS – UK

  • 45 years’ retail sector experience
  • Worked in Retail Operations, Change Management, Multichannel and Proposition for Woolworths PLC
  • He has been involved in over 40 major projects in the UK and Europe along with conducting numerous valuations and stock checks
  • Andy manages a seventy plus database of retail consultants

ERIK AAFTINK

OPERATIONS – THE NETHERLANDS

  • 25 years’ retail sector experience
  • Transformation, turnaround, restructuring and consulting
  • VP of Capegemini, Accenture and NIBC
  • CCO of Intergamma and Intertoys – DIY and toy market leaders in Holland
  • CMO of Manor – the largest Swiss department store chain
  • Turnaround interim assignments with HEMA, Bijenkorf, Hunkeomller and Heineken

Retail Realisation LLP

is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales under number OC425453

First Floor, 184-186 Regent Street, London, United Kingdom, W1B 5TW

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