Services

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Our business and reputation have been built on recruitment and headhunting services. In recent years, however, we have been increasingly asked by our clients to provide additional professional business services, such as global research, market surveys, brand re-alignment, international expansion etc.  We have now established a luxury management consultancy with a group of associate consultants all experts in their specialised areas.

Headhunting/Placement

For businesses, there is something very challenging about adjusting a team, because every new member, whatever their role, will change things – a little or a lot – depending on the person and depending on the business plan.

Sometimes change is exactly what you’re after, and we are often briefed to find someone whose primary purpose is to affect the team chemistry radically and permanently. And at other times, you won’t want to change anything, and so far from wanting a catalyst, you just want more of what you already have, or have just lost.

Whatever you want, we can help. We will take your brief as far and as fast as you require and will find you someone who will do precisely what you need and then surprise and delight you a little bit more.

And a word about confidentiality: You can say what you like about us, and we’ll still say nothing about you. The fact is, whatever else brings our clients back, we know they value our absolute discretion. Whatever happens in the search stays in the search. Until we make the placement of course. At that stage we’ll celebrate with the best of them.

Your Next Move

We have always been selective in the type of companies we work with. By aligning ourselves to market leaders, we can be sure that the job opportunities that we offer – most of which are exclusive to us – are the most sought after. As an individual, whatever your talent, instinct and market appeal, as your career develops there may be times when you’d benefit from a constructive and unbiased discussion to help you shape your future. We believe in looking after our candidates. We understand how important your career is and will do everything we can to place you in a role that best serves your development and your ambition.

Additional Consultancy Services

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In addition to search and selection, we offer a range of other professional services that are handled by the leadership team and through a group of associate consultants with relevant expertise.

Young Brands / Start up Mentoring

As your brand develops, the need for internal structure and systems becomes crucial in order to support your growing turnover.

We have a portfolio of industry experts, each renowned in their field, who can mentor and advise you at each stage of your company’s evolution. This could include legal, accountancy and property expertise, along with possible investment partners.

Brand Language

Whatever your brand, and however long it’s been around, it will have certain values attributed to it and meaning associated with it. And these values and meaning will change depending on the predisposition, predilections and prejudices of the onlooker. But that’s not to say you can’t do anything to influence them.

One way or another, your brand is communicating all the time. And what it communicates is worth considering very carefully.

Our associate consultants are experts in scrutinising brand communications – and establishing precisely what your brand is saying, in every context, at any time. The results are always interesting and the way your brand communicates might not always be what you had in mind. That’s where our brand experts can help.

Brand Auditing

Building a business requires leaders to stand close and to stay hands-on.  But at the same time, it’s possible that by staying so close, you can’t always see the whole picture. Our brand auditors will scrutinise every aspect of your supply chain from your supplier networks to the way your brand looks, sounds and seems to the market. But this is not intended as a paramedic service – it’s better deployed as a full-body health check.

International Expansion

It’s an obvious enough move. Having established yourself and achieved success at home, an obvious next step might be to branch out overseas. But whilst the logic is sound, the execution can be tough. And many a strong business has hit trouble off shore and has had to sail back home considerably worse off.

We and our consultant partners have expertise in international expansion and whether we help you develop your strategy or join you every step of the way, it will be reassuring to know that you have support and advice from others who have been there and done it successfully.

ASIA

Asia is seen as a very attractive market for many luxury brands but having the correct partner is crucial. We work with associates based in China offering investment, distribution and comprehensive retail networks for international brands already turning over in excess of €10m and with an existing successful retail presence in their home and/or other markets.

Human Resources, Learning & Development, Mentoring

Most small to medium sized businesses don’t need full-time in house HR professionals. But there are times – often at very short notice – when situations arise within your teams and you need to know how to deal with them legally, ethically and promptly. To get it wrong could be catastrophic for your business, both financially and commercially.

Learning and development is often regarded as a cost to the business and is one of the first budgets to be cut if the going gets tough. Our view is that this is precisely when companies should invest more and really get behind the team.

Our associate consultants bring considerable expertise into these areas, from writing new Contracts of Employment to guiding you through disciplinary procedures, to identifying learning and development needs to compiling and running training programmes. This can also include senior management mentoring.

Global Research / Market Intelligence

Our international multi-lingual research partners are able to investigate corporate structures and reporting lines, as well as producing candidate identification reports, salary surveys, and reports on comparable brands in international markets.

Australasian Partners

We have a long affiliation with one of Australia’s best retail executive search firms, and we have worked with them to place national and international candidates for positions in Australia and the Far East, especially China.