Business Hub: Tailored Advice to Power Your Retail Success
As a champion of small businesses, Top Drawer’s Business Hub connects retailers, shopkeepers and brands with leading industry experts for free, Q&A workshops and sessions.
Whether you're facing challenges around branding, buying, visual merchandising, PR or more, our expert advisors bring decades of real-world experience to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
These personalised, hour-long sessions are taking place over the full three days of Top Drawer and are designed to deliver practical, actionable advice—tailored to your business and focused on real results.
Sunday 11 January
10AM: Resilient Retail Club with Catherine Erdly
Catherine is a small business retail expert, founder of The Resilient Retail Club, a Forbes.com contributor on the subject of starting and scaling a product business, a judge of the Good Retail Awards, on the Editorial Board of Modern Retail, featured as an expert commenter in national newspapers and radio, and a frequent writer and speaker on the retail industry at various trade shows and industry-led events across the country.
She was also recently voted the top sales adviser in the UK by Enterprise Nation, and named one of the top 100 retail influencers in the world by Rethink Retail.
Monday 12th January
1PM: PR Masterclass with Pippa Goulden
Pippa Goulden is a PR expert helping founders, entrepreneurs and start-ups to get known for what they do. She's on a mission to demystify PR and help small businesses to use it to build their brand, drive sales and grow their business. She has a DIY PR Membership, 1-2-1 Accelerator programme and does it for you too.