Our retail experts help you do more than simply trade with squeezed margins. We can help you transform the story of your business.
Whether we’re working on audit, financial planning or tax issues, our partner-led teams dig deep into their retail know-how. For example, they can help you simplify your supply chain, start to trade in a new jurisdiction or ensure compliance with customs duties. Above all, they help you focus on what matters most: leading with ambition to bolster your growth and profitability.
Our retail accounting team advise on:
Retail Insight and Events
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MHA’s Industry Predictions for 2025
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Thriving in Turbulence: Strategic Adaptability as the Key in a Changing Business Landscape
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AI and the UK Cosmetics Industry: Is Its Value More Than Skin Deep?
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Why partner with MHA?
- We act locally while thinking globally. As the UK member of Baker Tilly International, working with MHA gives you access to a global network of more than 41,000 professionals in 145 territories.
- We’re experts in supply chain efficiency. We look to reduce costs and improve margins – so you can make consistent, predictable returns.
- We’re focused on growth and sustainability These must go hand in hand if we’re to build a fairer, more sustainable future for all.
- We build unparalleled partnerships. With our people, our clients, and across our networks, we work to sustain lasting integrity and trust.
Our retail team
Alison Conley
Retail & Consumer, Corporate and International Tax Partner
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Colin Johnson
Partner
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Paul Williams
Partner
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Ryan Swann
Audit Partner
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Mark Lumsdon-Taylor
Partner
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Chris Danes
Tax Partner
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Stephen Poleykett
Partner
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Technology, data security, supply chain disruption and competitor ‘price wars’ are causing retailers to review their business models and look for efficiencies.
Our retail and consumer team can provide a full range of advisory, tax and accounting services to help our clients successfully develop their businesses to not only deal with the changing retail environment, but thrive in it.
From growing entrepreneurial owner-managed-businesses (OMBs) to household names, we’ve been advising and guiding accounting and business strategy in the retail sector for many years. We have helped clients grow, diversify and expand internationally.
That experience includes professional retail accounting advice for retail and wholesale businesses, from the high street to online retailers.
Our team advises on:
- Employment issues, capital allowances, currency volatility and tax mitigation
- Planning for intellectual property and branding
- Maximising the efficiency of the supply chain; reducing costs and improving margins
- Advising on both governance issues to best attract investment, and on minimising fraud and corruption risk
- Understanding the impact of business rates and other obligations on bricks and mortar shops
- Addressing the impacts of Brexit on imported goods, including rules of origin
- Handling e-commerce VAT for online retailers serving the UK and worldwide markets
- ESG and sustainability strategies
