WHO IS RETAIL ADVISORS™?

Retail Advisors™ is in the business of helping businesses not just survive, but grow and achieve success.

Created by founder David Wing in 1988 to help apparel and gift retailers, the firm has successfully assisted hundreds of small businesses.

Dedication to our client's success is our mission. Retailers today must have the right merchandise and business execution, along with usable information, to reap the benefits of success. Through an open exchange of ideas and support from experienced Business Therapist™, we go beyond just fixing the immediate problem to the implementation of lasting solutions. We are not here to make you dependent on us, we help you help yourself.

With this expert one-on-one assistance, seminars and workshops, our clients have been able to increase sales by as much as 20 to 60 percent.

David Wing
Sr. Managing Consultant/Business Therapist™

In 1988 David Wing founded Retail Advisors™ to help apparel and gift retailers, giving them the support for continued growth and success.

"The principle was simple - I wanted to give the small and independent retailer the same chance and support that larger retailers have. After spending most of my retail career being the "fix it" person in corporate retailing, I realized how much more I could do by supplying that same effort and hard work to smaller independent retailers."

Mr. Wing is a small business columnist and author of more than seventy-five published articles and the five part series - The Retailer’s Guide Booklets, and writes the weekly column - Elements of Success©. Additionally, he publishes monthly - Business Therapist™, read by retailers across the country. Considered a small business retail specialist, and respected within the retail and business community, Mr. Wing is actively used as a resource for newspaper and magazine writers. He is also a contributor to several Small Business Q & A columns.

Working with local and state business development projects play a critical role in the work Mr. Wing, and Retail Advisors™ provides for their clients. From 1993 through the end of fiscal year 1996, Retail Advisors™ was contracted by the GateWay Community College Small Business Development Center. Providing small business assistance through the special SBA program, Mr. Wing worked with micro enterprise’s, and economically disadvantaged businesses throughout Maricopa County, Arizona. During this time he had the role of Primary Retail Business Counselor, dealing with over 300 small businesses per year. Center projects included the development and opening of new businesses – both service and retail – the development of a Retail Incubator Cart program, and the development and implementation of specialized small business training programs. Mr. Wing also actively works as a small business advocate by sitting on committees and advisory boards.

Prior to establishing Retail Advisors™, Mr. Wing worked with some of the countries largest retail organizations; including Broadway Southwest, Van Heusen Corporation (outlet division), Dayton Hudson Corporation, Edison Brothers, and Dillard Department Stores. Before focusing on the needs of small business owners, Mr. Wing worked with Van Heusen Corporation managing day-to-day operations, management training programs, store personnel, and the opening of new stores throughout the west. Special projects included the development of focused merchandise selection for the western stores to meet customers needs and the development and implementation of a new company wide training programs.

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