Retail

Our retail experts help you do more than simply trade with squeezed margins. We can help you transform the story of your business.

Whether we’re working on audit, financial planning or tax issues, our partner-led teams dig deep into their retail know-how. For example, they can help you simplify your supply chain, start to trade in a new jurisdiction or ensure compliance with customs duties. Above all, they help you focus on what matters most: leading with ambition to bolster your growth and profitability.

Our services

Technology, data security, supply chain disruption and competitor ‘price wars’ are causing retailers to review their business models and look for efficiencies.

Our retail and consumer team can provide a full range of advisory, tax and accounting services to help our clients successfully develop their businesses to not only deal with the changing retail environment, but thrive in it.

From growing entrepreneurial owner-managed-businesses (OMBs) to household names, we’ve been advising and guiding accounting and business strategy in the retail sector for many years. We have helped clients grow, diversify and expand internationally.

That experience includes professional retail accounting advice for retail and wholesale businesses, from the high street to online retailers.

Our team advises on:

• Employment issues, capital allowances, currency volatility and tax mitigation
• Planning for intellectual property and branding
• Maximising the efficiency of the supply chain; reducing costs and improving margins
• Advising on both governance issues to best attract investment, and on minimising fraud and corruption risk
• Understanding the impact of business rates and other obligations on bricks and mortar shops
• Addressing the impacts of Brexit on imported goods, including rules of origin
• Handling e-commerce VAT for online retailers serving the UK and worldwide markets
• ESG and sustainability strategies