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Retail Trending
The success of a retail business is grounded in strong merchandise performance. Blacks helps retailers improve their productivity by understanding sales and inventory trends.
Our Retail Trending service allows clients to:
- Identify sales patterns
- Determine growth opportunities by category and class
- Flow inventory to meet customer demand as well as the capital needs of the business
Our Approach:
A Blacks trending expert looks at the client's inventory and sales patterns on a month-to-month basis to help them plan new buys, cut costs, calculate markdowns and keep the business in-line with financial goals. Our experts typically build strong, ongoing relationships with clients, helping them develop and grow their businesses over many years.
Strategy Development
Is your business operating at the highest level possible? If profits aren’t in line with expectations it’s time to review your strategy and organizational structure.
Our Approach:
Blacks Consultants perform a thorough analysis of the business, assessing market opportunities and merchandise strategies, as well as sales, management and marketing.
This analysis provides retailers with a 360-degree of their business and offers insight on how to streamline and improve operations with a focus on solid financial goals.
Business Planning
Whether you’re opening a new store, expanding your business, or going through a management change, Blacks Business Planning helps companies navigate transitions with optimal success.
Our Approach:
We work with retailers to create step-by-step plans that allow them realize their goals. Our plans are based on realistic and accurate financial analyses, expert strategies and sound management advice.
E-Retail Services
Even for brick-and-mortar retailers the Internet is an essential sales and marketing tool. Our services help retailers create an online presence to drive real world sales.
Our Approach:
We focus on e-mail marketing and creating a unique online identity that reflects the retailer and its customer base.
Fashion Integration
To generate increased sales some businesses need to expand into new categories and price points. Our Fashion Integration service evaluates the client’s current mix to identify profitable fashion opportunities that fit with the current store concept.
Our Approach:
A Blacks consultant studies the store’s current inventory mix, sales patterns and customer base. He or she then recommends fashion opportunities that will allow the client to grow their business at a steady rate while still serving the needs of existing customers.
Special Projects
From time to time we get requests to conduct special projects concerning a management change, an acquisition or other sensitive business-related matters. We approach these projects with the same amount of planning, research and confidentiality that we provide with our other services.
Litigation Support
In cases where an in-depth and expert understanding of the retail industry is needed, Blacks provides litigation support services. Our professionals offer insight on the viability of retail business plans and estimates on inventory valuation. |
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| “Blacks does its job. In four months we've saved over $100,000 and paid a lot less than that.” |
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