Retail E-vironment Pty Ltd (retail e-v), was founded by Mr Robert Durrant to provide companies with a team of industry experts that could formulate, and further implement solutions to enhance their existing business operations. retail e-v consultants are experienced across a broad range of industries, and perfectly positioned to  provide independent and objective analysis on your business.

retail e-v build relationships on trust. You can rely on retail e-v to listen as well as act, to constantly push against the ordinary to produce extraordinary results that are state of the art.  retail e-v cares about whom you are, and what you and your company stands for.

Their team immerse themselves in your company’s culture and products and process, and look independently at your competition to benchmark your service delivery offerings and identify new opportunities to improve branding, process, education and sales opportunities.

Our internal team of professionals, combined with our network alliance partners are each experts in their field. We can offer you the flexibility of direction and execution over and above what you would normally find.

We have built our business by nurturing relationships with our clients and partners through professionalism, trust and being passionate about our results.  

retail e-v solutions are based upon initiatives from the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) and allow companies to create an efficient Value Chain.  retail e-v solutions provide our customers with additional ways to brand, promote and grow their business, increase sales, or simply  increase collaboration with their trading partners. Six Sigma Quality methodology is deployed across all of our projects to ensure ongoing success.

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Meet the Team

Robert Durrant - Managing Director

Robert Durrant owns and manages a diverse range of companies across Australia, each operating within different industry sectors.  His diverse management skills and experience has been utilised within his own organisations, as well as external corporate enterprises such as Information Resources Inc and General Electric (GE).

Robert heads up the team at retail e-v, and leads the project management of each and every customer engagement.  His skills in retail operations, sales, marketing, merchandising, and electronic commerce allow him to provide "Alternative" thinking for each solution.  Delivered projects encapsulate uniqueness, sustainability, and meet your business objectives. 

Robert holds a degree in Business Management and Marketing from the University of Queensland, and is accredited in the GS1 EAN-UCC system.  Robert also practises Six Sigma quality methodology, and operates with standards organisations like GS1, Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) and ECR Australasia (Efficient Consumer Response - ECR).

E-mail robertd@retaile-v.com.au                          

Cam McPhail - Creative Designer
Cam manages the creative design areas of the business. Cam's has vast experience in graphic design, and utilises professional software packages such as Photoshop, Illustrator and PageMaker to design artistic creations for websites, brochures, logos and stationary and signage to name a few. His skills as a professional photographer enable a full and seamless process for creating that unique and tailored solution. 

E-mail - camm@retaile-v.com.au 

Peter Rutherford - Content Author 

Peter is the  creator of the successful retail e-v retail and category management packages.  Peter's extensive background in retail management gained in senior positions both here in Australia, and overseas enables him to create customised management packages to suit your own specific business requirements.

E-mail -  peterr@retaile-v.com.au      

Hamish McKay - Business Solutions Manager 

Hamish has a degree in Behavioural Science - Psychology, and has combined this with over 10 years experience in Sales, Trade Marketing and Merchandising principles. Working for some of Australia's leading FMCG companies such as Simplot, Nestle and National Foods, he has spent the last 3 years leading the UK ACNielsen Merchandising division, in providing leading solutions to some of the UK and Europe's leading retailers and suppliers. These included Staples, WHSmith, Woolworths, W M Morrison Supermarket, Hewlett Packard, Electronic Arts & Reckitt Benckiser in providing both the consultancy services and support to successfully implement their merchandising requirements.

E-mail -  hamishm@retaile-v.com.au   

Gary Harkin - Retail Solutions

Working within some of Australia more diverse industry sectors, Hardware and Newsagencies, Gary has the retail experience to quickly analyse and formulate a program that can target specific issues within retail organisations. These retail e-v Training programs assist  companies in their operations, planning, business systems and information exchange between employees. 

E-mail -  garyh@retaile-v.com.au        

Andrew Vincent - Retail Solutions (Queensland)

Andrew has a background in retail store design and merchandising. His skills provide our customers with a single point contact for store planning and design, development and refurbishment, store merchandising and staff training.

E-mail -  andrewv@retaile-v.com.au    

Glen Norris - Sales Co-ordinator

Glen provides the sales support for the business. With an extensive history within the FMCG industry, Glen understands that speed to market is critical for success in any retail organisation.

E-mail -  glenn@retaile-v.com.au