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Christina Richardson

From start-up to strategic growth business: How A Suit That Fits is accelerating growth by focusing on marketing and the consumer - by Christina Richardson, representing A Suit That

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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.

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Christina

Richardson

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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