FOOD RETAIL GURU

Scott Annan

Food and Convenience Retail Pathfinder

Scott is a Food and Convenience retail industry guru and a pathfinder. He is based in the UK and Irish marketplaces and has a global reach in hosting peer-to-peer exchange events.

He maintains regular connections with C-level heads within retail forums, challenging thinking and sharing insight and knowledge. Scott’s forums represent almost 90% of the market place and include many national and independent UK and Ireland retailers. A trusted advisor for companies, his contributions cover strategy development, management coaching, keynote addresses, industry panels, facilitation and media.

Through extensive travel and touch points with companies, Scott is uniquely positioned to connect the disparate dots that improve financial performance in our fast moving industry, establish and enhance connections, curate partnerships and knowledge sharing opportunities.

Company We Keep

Scott doesn’t have customers; he has a network of forum members. Members contribute to shaping the industry and growing their own businesses through collaboration, cooperation and competition.

The Retail Leaders Forum

10 Members

The Independent Retailer Owners Forum

24 Members

Market Retail Expert Members

20 Members

Selected Sponsorship Members

4 Members

Trusted Advisor

4

Strategy Challenge

For many companies, Scott is an independent sounding board and a logic challenger.

Private Tours

Scott is the happiest when he is opening retailers’ eyes to new ideas and ways of working.

Keynote and speaking engagements

Scott Annan is a dynamic speaker.

NED & Trusted Advisor

Scott is a sought after Non-Executive Director & Trusted Advisor for several companies.

Inspire and Challenge

Scott has helped many businesses develop their strategies.

Scott has helped many businesses test the logic of their strategies. His input is trusted to steer strategy even where major management consultants are in place. For many companies, Scott is an independent sounding board and a challenger. It is what he does best.

The Pathfinder’s Journey

The journey to a Pathfinder

Scott endures as a pathfinder by being a well travelled and independent maverick. He is able to bring unrestrained challenges and insights that are sometimes uncomfortable to steer companies to greater success. He is not tied to certain products or scripts which brings trust to retailers.

1996 Japan visit: proprietary food
1998 USA: Shopper needs category management
2003 BP global retail: roadside retail accelerator programme
2005 BP UK: M&S Simply Food store pods
2011 Launch of The Retail Leaders Forum
2016 Launch of IROF
2018 Launch of The Independent Retailer Owners Forum IROF
2019 India: Retail Leaders Forum visit
2019 Singapore Funan centre retailtainment
2020 Co-author of industry papers & additional Trusted Advisor roles
2021 Publication of ‘The Shape of Food Retailing in the New Normal 5: Roadside Retail’ report
2022 Publication of ‘The World’s Favourite Stores’ report
2023 Seoul & Tokyo retail foodservice & store formats innovation
2024 Publication of ‘The World’s Favourite Stores: The Next Generation’ report
2025 India Q-commerce B2C development

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The Shape of Food Retailing in the New Normal

2020 will be the year that tested resilience, ability to reinvent, reinforce partnerships and flare up to expand to new heights. In order to remain a formal and informal trusted advisor to the food and foodservice industries, Scott partnered with many members in his network to deliver industry papers. Here you can download the work of this collaboration.

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