from start-up to strategic growth business: how a suit that fits is accelerating growth by focusing...
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Presenting at the Fashion & Beauty Summit on March 14th 2012, Christina talked a little about the journey of how award-winning tailoring company A Suit That Fits has gone from 0 to £3million in 5 years with very little marketing budget. She then went on to talk through a series of key changes made to shift the business from a start-up mindset to an entrepreneurial growth-business mindset - and how putting marketing and the consumer at the centre of the organisation is pioneering the next stages of this significant growth.TRANSCRIPT
Christina
Richardson
It started with a simple idea…
“To give everyone a suit that fits” Fitting your frame, budget, and personality
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Photograph by Rankin for the BT Essence of the Entrepreneur award
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Now in 33 locations nationwide
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National London Online Local
Extensive in-house PR...
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...with some guerrilla stunts
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Rick Edwards Channel 4 & T4
presenter
Will Greenwood England Rugby World
Cup winner
Ronnie O’Sullivan Snooker World champion
Sultan Kosan
World’s Tallest Man for
Guinness World
Records
...dressing celebrities
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...and winning awards
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1. Review every part of the business
that touches our consumer
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2. Really honed in on our consumer
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3. Become ruthlessly objectives driven
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4. Fewer, bigger, better
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#aSuitForSuccess
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5. Spread the word wherever we can
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6. Measure everything
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Interested in collaborating with like-minded brands?
There is an interesting platform in development, see
www.thenurturenetwork.co.uk/BrandConnect