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Top 25 Retail consulting companies based in the United Kingdom

Name: Retail consulting companies based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026 1,428 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,428 retail consulting companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 9,038 professional contacts across them, including 3,386 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers retail consulting companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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9,038Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest retail consulting companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,428 retail consulting companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to retail consulting companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Efficio	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,304 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Efficio is a global leader in procurement and supply chain management and transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2	DEE SET Complete Retail Solutions	Partial evidence	Stoke On Trent, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	503 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Established in 2001, we support Retailers and Brands to drive growth, market share and ROI, ultimately to achieve excellence at the point of purchase.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3	Elite Associates	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	375 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Elite Associates are specialist luxury retail recruitment consultancy, supporting retail, fashion, beauty, corporate functions, creative services and production.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4	Retail Insight	Partial evidence	Richmond, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	275 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Retail Insight is the only technology solution focused solely on helping retailers and their CPG partners achieve the full potential from every store.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5	Acosta Europe	Partial evidence	Woking, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	266 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Your partners in retail strategy and execution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6	SIGMA	Partial evidence	Uk, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	253 contacts →
	Partial evidence “With experience operating in the fast-paced and dynamic retail space, Sigma provide a true end-to-end service; from construction and consolidation, to fixture procurement and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7	Retail Reply	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	214 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Retail Reply helps clients accelerate their response to the opportunities of digital transformation in the retail and consumer sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8	CVL	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	n/a	165 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Strategic development for already dynamic businesses, successful mergers & acquisitions between household names, technology planning in cutting edge industries and real-world…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9	Reach Europe	Partial evidence	Woking, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	147 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At Reach we embrace the changing future, putting your brand at the forefront of sales execution and retail technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10	Ayatacommerce	Partial evidence	Bracknell, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	136 contacts →
	Partial evidence “AyataCommerce offers merchants services to help implement retail technology that empowers the business to deliver growth by offering consumers the experience they expect wherever…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11	Squarcle	Indirect evidence	Bristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	129 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Squarcle is a procurement, supply chain and digital specialist which sits at the centre of transformation, with a skillset which has proven relevance in any market characterised…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12	Advantage Smollan	Indirect evidence	Winnersh, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	10001+	114 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Advantage Smollan we create and deliver intelligent commerce solutions to help our clients sell and market better.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13	Agile Retail	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	109 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We work with retailers to remove the risk of experimentation with turnkey solutions, allowing them to enhance customer experiences and build stores of the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14	Summit	Partial evidence	Hull, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	101 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Summit are Changemakers in online retailing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15	ALL About Food LTD	Partial evidence	Manchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	88 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At All About Food, our core mission is to make restaurant and coffee shop brands successful in retail.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16	Change Management Group	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	74 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Whether complex transformation is required across your business or you are seeking support with a small project, we are here to help.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17	The Tecsa Group	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	66 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Tecsa is a specialist retail loyalty and analytics consultancy founded and led by former retail executives who built and ran major loyalty programmes, including Nectar, Holland &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18	ESA Retail	Partial evidence	St Albans, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	62 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ESA Retail is now part of Ipsos, and using the Ipsos brand name, following acquisition in June 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19	Retail Gazette	Partial evidence	Marylebone, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	59 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Most industry content treats retail as a single topic.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20	ISI Global	Indirect evidence	Lutterworth, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	58 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We empower brands to achieve more by shaping consumer experiences at every touchpoint: online, in-store, and on the move.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21	Tessiant	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	47 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Tessiant is a management consultancy founded by former industry leaders who believed consulting could and should be done differently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22	Extreme Branding	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	45 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Want to Hire?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23	ETCH	Indirect evidence	Southampton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	44 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Etch helps revitalise established businesses struggling with challenges such as loss of market leadership, slowing customer growth, declining profitability, inefficient processes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24	Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1,001-5,000	44 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology, we exist to inspire growth for ambitious retailers and brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25	Shopworks	Partial evidence	Tring, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	42 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We are an international retail planning and design consultancy that offers research, category management and shopfitting based on 20 years of researching the how and why people…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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 consulting companies. 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 consulting companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of retail consulting companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name retail consulting companies. 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 consulting companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026

37.5%Verified-email coverage

6.3Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

38.4%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

1,168

11-50

187

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,428 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 consulting companies, 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “retail consulting companies”. 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 consulting companies), 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 consulting companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 3,386 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 consulting companies by metro

Retail consulting companies in London548
Retail consulting companies in Manchester38

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 consulting companies, 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 consulting companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 1,428 retail consulting companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?

Efficio, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most retail consulting companies?

London leads with 548 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (38) and Leeds (24).

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 3,386 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,428 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.