Retail Creatively Information

Retail-Creatively is a matchmaking and consultancy service connecting Scotland's creative community with routes to market. Retail Creatively was born out of our experience as Marketing Director and Manager respectively of ICE Retail, a social enterprise set up in 2012 to provide a showcase for individual Scottish artists and crafters looking for a sales outlet in central Edinburgh. The range and quality of work presented to us and the clear requirement for help and advice we identified on routes to market and market readiness within our maker community led us to the concept of a matchmaking agency and consultancy to connect makers with the right retailer path for them. We believe that Retail Creatively is the only agency to offer these services in this market. Equally, as retailers we could see the benefit of an organisation which understood retail and the challenges of sourcing a reliable and consistent supply of products to capture the interest of customers. So, Retail Creatively was born! Linsay brings over 30 years of public relations and marketing experience to Retail Creatively as well as two years as a Director of ICE Retail, promoting and expanding the business into new areas. Ola combines experience of both sides of our business. She is an artist, whose work is stocked in several galleries and shops around Edinburgh, and a retailer having managed ICE Retail for more than a year and working as senior sales representative prior to taking over the management of the shop.