RETAIL GAME: Playing to Win - a Guide to the Profitable Sale of Goods and Services - Softcover

Plant, Albert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553653300 ISBN 13: 9781553653301

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd

Synopsis

A comprehensive, practical guide to the art and business of retailing merchandise and services, showing owner-operators how to transform their bright idea into a successful business

What does it take to start up, maintain and grow a thriving and profitable retail business? In "The Retail Game: Playing to Win" Albert C. Plant provides both a sweeping overview of the Canadian retail landscape and a detailed, step-by-step approach to rewarding retailing for the independent owner-operator.



Aided by a wealth of examples and a variety of helpful charts, graphs and tables, "The Retail Game: Playing to Win" then presents a clear consideration of the many "detail" issues that retailers face: from location, pricing and margins to supply chain management; the decision to grow or go; understanding employees and customers; and mastering the financial statements as well as multi-channel

About this title

About the Author

Albert C. Plant spent fifteen years in the pulp and paper industry in British Columbia and Quebec, then held executive positions with a number of national retail companies. He established his own management consulting business in 1985 and has been the retail industry adviser for RBC Royal Bank since 1995.

Edition details

• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553653300
• ISBN 13: 9781553653301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320