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Connection Catalyst provides direct access to major UK retailers

Through leveraging our vast professional contact network we specialise in offering international businesses accelerated board level access to major UK retailers and corporates.   We remove the often prohibitive cost and consequent risk of high upfront investment which is required to break into a foreign market.  The probability of initiating and closing a sale is far higher using our ‘warm lead’ approach and we work hand-in-hand with our Clients to shape their sales strategy, providing guidance on significant local market and retailer specific variables. 



Efficient market access
Riverhouse Associates Ltd www.riverhouse-associates.com , our UK sales arm,  meet with a multitude of UK retailers and corporates.  Depending on our Client’s preference, products and services are either pitched alone at dedicated meetings or presented as part of a custom portfolio tailored to a particular retailer.  Clients pay us a low-level monthly retainer with no tie-in period.  We  do not charge success fees which are an unnecessary Client expense. 

 




Business Development Expertise
Collectively the management team possess decades of experience in senior retail management, product, business and commercial development, relationship management and management consultancy.  This experience combined with our extensive corporate networks provides our Clients with a vast array of business development opportunities.  Our business model accelerates the sales cycle of cross border deals, radically reduces cost and associated risk and significantly increases the likelihood of deal completion.




New Income Streams
One of our niche focuses is our work with strategic partners to source particularly innovative products and services which provide novel income streams for UK and Irish retailers. These may be products for resale to their final customers or ‘business to business’ products which enhance revenue through new technology, methods or processes.