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Top 24 Retail consultants based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 187 retail consultants headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,366 professional contacts across them, including 577 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers retail consultants headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 24 largest retail consultants based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “C.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In today’s digital world, you still need the human touch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Chicago-based firm with offices in Mexico, the UK, France, Turkey, India, and China, providing supply chain, digital, strategy and transformation consulting services to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Small Shop is a woman-owned, Chicago-based boutique consulting firm providing crafted goods and apparel production services from early-stage development through re-order.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RGLA, ranked as one of the Top 20 retail design firms in North America, provides design, architecture, branding, program management and rollout services to many of the world’s top…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With almost a century of experience, FHC offers a range of capabilities that encompass the entire retail environment; from the fixtures supporting merchandise to the store’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Precision-Tuned Foodservice Solutions: Expert support and strategic guidance, precisely when your brand needs it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help organizations unlock the potential of their experiences through strategy, design, storytelling and execution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fort Dearborn Partners, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chain Store Age is the nation’s leading provider of retail news and analysis for retail headquarters executives across all sectors of the industry, both in print and online.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gillum Strategy Partners is a boutique management consulting firm with a focus on the creation and execution of strategies that deliver demonstrable value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boru helps small businesses increase sales and improve service results- We help you understand the optimum steps that will lead to accelerated sales and then build momentum toward…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KGK & Company is the leader in data-driven value creation for middle market businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CFO Simplified is a Chicago-area consulting firm specializing in small to mid-sized businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The MSI point of difference:+ Insights into an evolving retail landscape + Understanding the opportunities and challenges in today's marketplace + Seamlessly combine online &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Behind the Design, we specialize in recruiting, training, and operations process development tailored specifically for interior design and home remodeling companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stone Real Estate is a Chicago-based boutique retail real estate firm with a culture founded on the pillars of integrity, approachability, responsiveness, pragmatism and strategic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pivotal Growth Partners works with emerging growth brands and focuses on hands-on growth execution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Game On offers an elite level of multinational sales expertise committed to making global business development effortless and accessible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CHICAGO’S PREMIER RETAIL REAL ESTATE FIRM First Street is a true partnership forged by years of collaboration, teamwork and the best client service orientation in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide value to investors pre and post purchase.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ClearCut is a retail analytics and eCommerce services provider on a mission to support CPG companies make critical decisions with confidence and drive sustainable business growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: retail consultants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names retail consultants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retail consultants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retail consultants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Retail consultants based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 187 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among retail consultants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “retail consultants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names retail consultants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among retail consultants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 577 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Retail consultants by metro in the United States
- Retail consultants in New York483
- Retail consultants in Los Angeles220
- Retail consultants in Chicago187
- Retail consultants in Atlanta183
- Retail consultants in Miami139
- Retail consultants in Dallas132
- Retail consultants in Houston120
- Retail consultants in Boston109
- Retail consultants in Minneapolis109
- Retail consultants in Austin97
- Retail consultants in Denver92
- Retail consultants in San Francisco92
- Retail consultants in San Diego84
- Retail consultants in Seattle80
- Retail consultants in Charlotte72
- Retail consultants in Bentonville69
- Retail consultants in Portland61
- Retail consultants in Washington56
- Retail consultants in Tampa55
- Retail consultants in Philadelphia51
- Retail consultants in Phoenix51
- Retail consultants in Scottsdale50
- Retail consultants in Cincinnati48
- Retail consultants in Orlando45
- Retail consultants in Las Vegas43
- Retail consultants in Nashville40
- Retail consultants in New York City39
- Retail consultants in Irvine36
- Retail consultants in Columbus35
- Retail consultants in Indianapolis34
- Retail consultants in Raleigh34
- Retail consultants in Salt Lake City30
- Retail consultants in Cleveland29
- Retail consultants in Jacksonville29
- Retail consultants in Fort Lauderdale28
- Retail consultants in Newport Beach28
- Retail consultants in San Antonio28
- Retail consultants in Brooklyn25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names retail consultants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many retail consultants are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 187 retail consultants headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
C.A. Fortune, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retail consultants?
New York leads with 483 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (220) and Chicago (187).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 577 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 187 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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