Retail

At the forefront of future-facing retail

We are your strategic delivery partner, unlocking complexity to deliver lasting impact for your business, your people and your customers, today and into the future.

Through stock automation and analysing consumer behaviour, Newton are future-proofing the food system.

Create a compelling future with us

Staying ahead in the competitive and fast-changing global retail market demands agility, resilience and future-ready capabilities. We’re here to deliver on your strategic ambitions and meet your most complex challenges, supporting you with forensically detailed analysis and our unique boots-on-the-ground commitment.

We’re ready to help redefine supply chain networks, increase customer retention, deploy AI or build the right range at the right price. We partner closely with you as one team, unlocking value and potential across silos and beyond expectations. Together we help your people to win big, delighting your customers today and tomorrow.

"We knew there was opportunity in our operations, we just never thought it could be of this magnitude." — – Managing Director, Major International Retailer

"This program has set the benchmark for how we will deliver change. I want this to become the template for future programmes - the methodology, staying true to democratic vitality, the results delivered, delivering this at scale." — – CEO, major international retailer

"I've worked with lots of different consultancies over the years and the experience with Newton has been the best by far. We've been on the journey together. Our wins have been shared wins, but also our challenges have been shared challenges. It's been fun and you've become friends and colleagues." — – Retail Director, major grocery retailer

"Newton's work has set the blueprint for how all change should be delivered." — – Group CEO, Major Retailer

"Every time Newton gets involved they turbocharge it. We wouldn't have got that value on our own. — – Trading Director, Major Retailer

Delivering measurable impact

Take a look at some of the results we’ve achieved with our clients:

Sales Increase

2.5%

Sales increase as well as cutting waste by 20% by optimising range at a store level.

CoGs Decrease

5.5%

CoGS decrease with improved supplier collaboration and increase in surety of supply.

Reduction

15%

Reduction in workforce spend while improving customer service scores and improved on-shelf product availability.

At the heart of our general merchandising consultancy services is our proprietary Shopper Science system.

Our Work

Global footprint, deep market expertise

We operate globally across the retail landscape, from grocery, hard goods and apparel to general merchandise. Our teams bring together a unique blend of advanced STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), digital and AI capabilities, with financial and commercial rigor, and people and change specialists.

As an integral part of your team we deliver optimal global supply chain experience, data-led category growth innovation and sustainable, consumer-first experience design. Together we unlock performance to deliver measurable impact across the end-to-end value chain.

How We Work

Case Studies

Case Study

Empowering a well known retailer to deliver 44% EBITDA growth through increased availability, sales availability and margin

Why Newton?

Unlocking value for you and your customers

This is the Newton difference – our powerful whole-business approach that sits at the heart of everything we do:

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Built for complexity

We evaluate how your business operates today in forensic detail and help you envision where you would like to be as well as bring insights into your end-to-end value chain that you have never seen before. Using data-driven, Pareto insight, we work with you to first identify and then implement the biggest value and growth opportunities.

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Going as deep as it takes

We are committed to delivering transformative outcomes at pace and at scale. We embrace the detail, working tenaciously with you until you have the practical answers you need, but ensure these are visible on the P&L for your most senior stakeholders. We are wholly focused on achieving tangible results for your business.

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Work with you, not to you

We are hands-on, working alongside you at every level from the boardroom to the most detailed areas in your end-to-end operation. We test, iterate and create momentum that crosses functional silos and unlocks value across boundaries, co-creating solutions with your teams for outcomes with maximum impact that continue long after we leave.

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Are invested in impact

You need measurable results. It’s why 100% of our fees are linked to a visible, trackable and sustainable P&L value for your business. We stay until the change lands and delivers the lasting impact you need, putting 100% of our implementation fees at risk against a pre-agreed outcome, 100% of the time.

Driving positive change

We believe in building a stronger, smarter retail sector – one that benefits shoppers, protects resource availability and contributes to nature regeneration. We help you win but also convene and facilitate collaboration across the industry to drive positive change at scale.

Our commitment goes beyond day-to-day impact in your business. We provide pro bono support and activation energy to ensure that initiatives – such as the FareShare Coronation Food Project to tackle food waste – actually deliver what they set out to do.

The result is a stronger, smarter, more resilient retail world that we’re all proud to champion.

Women in Food

Our Women in Food is a community of senior female leaders dedicated to building a thriving food and drink industry by empowering and uplifting women to bring their diverse viewpoints to the table.

Visit our Women in Food page

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