Customer Community
Strategy, sentiment, experience and data to enhance customer journeys
Uniting retail and associates to explore customer experience, sentiment, data analytics, and trends for enhancing customer-centric innovation.
The Customer Community brings together retail and associate members to focus on topics such as customer experience, customer journeys, customer sentiment and trends, and the supporting analysis and customer-centric innovation that enhance these.
We delve into specific areas such as customer relationship management, personalized marketing, loyalty and conversion and retention, and leveraging data analytics to understand customer preferences and behaviour.
By sharing insights, best practices, and industry trends, the group aims to equip its members to understand the landscape of opportunities and thought leadership in this space.
Member input and feedback are crucial for us to deliver this aim successfully. Please contact Director of Insight Kris Hamer with any thoughts, suggestions or feedback.
Functions
The following key roles and the teams that report into them:
Chief Customer Officer
Director of Marketing / CMO
Head of Customer Experience
Chief Retail Officer
Director of Retail Strategy
Director of Retail Development
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Chief Commercial Officer
Head of Merchandising
Head of E-commerce
Director of Customer Relations
Latest Content
Press ReleaseConsumer confidence almost 40pts lower than in July
20 Feb 2025
Associate InsightBeyond price increases: How fashion retailers can drive real growth
18 Feb 2025
Press ReleaseDinner trumps roses this Valentine’s Day
14 Feb 2025
NewsBRC Learning x Thrive: Transforming Retail Leadership Development
12 Feb 2025
Associate InsightKPMG’s Consumer Pulse Snapshot – Q4 2024
31 Jan 2025
Associate Insight2025's tech outlook for enterprise retail
23 Jan 2025
Associate InsightRetailers are turning to market transactional insight to develop a competitive edge
17 Jan 2025
Associate InsightAI for Merchandising: Applications, Implementation, and Benefits
17 Jan 2025- Member Access
ArticleRegulatory Watchouts for 2025
02 Jan 2025 
Press ReleaseJanuary spending squeeze on the horizon
23 Dec 2024
Upcoming Events
EventWebinarUnravelling the hidden costs: effective management of customer returns
25 February 202512:00Livestorm
EventLearning ProgrammeBRC Retail Masters 2025
10 March 2025The Form Rooms, Covent Garden
EventWebinarLeading in the Industry: Seeing a Bigger Picture with the Learning Team
12 March 2025Online
EventExternal EventSpending, sentiment & shifts: How 2024 consumer trends will impact 2025
25 March 202510:00
EventConferenceRetail Reimagined: Insights, Innovation, and Customer Connection
26 March 202512:30The Form Rooms
EventMasterclassLearning ProgrammeSustainability Masterclass: Developing and delivering your strategy
02 April 2025The Form Rooms
EventMasterclassLearning ProgrammeInclusion Masterclass: Maximising Performance through Belonging
14 May 2025The Form Rooms
EventLearning ProgrammeBRC Summer School 2025
10 June 2025Ashridge House, Berkhamsted- EventMasterclassLearning Programme
Sustainability Masterclass: Developing and delivering your strategy
07 October 202509:00The Form Rooms
What our members say
The BRC allows a fiercely competitive sector to come together on some of the most important issues of the day. When it focuses on the long term topics that require well considered political and legal change it is at its most effective.
The BRC is invaluable in bringing retailers together to discuss crucial topics and then lobby the retailer message to government on our behalf. The BRC’s media presence and focus on promoting the interests of retailers allows us to align on issues impacting the sector.
A very effective business network that provides insight and coordinates industry opinion.
The BRC continues to do an excellent job of supporting the retail sector and its individual members on a wide variety of issues.
Adds a lot to our business, great sounding board, very well connected and able to influence.
A positive and considered voice for our industry, useful learning/ business-focused communities that help our team in their roles, and data insights that help us benchmark our performance.
Community Manager
Kris Hamer PhD
Director of Insight, BRC
Kris leads the BRC insight offer for its members and subscribers. He joined the BRC in 2022, having worked within the industry for over 25 years. Kris started his career on the shop floor at Tesco and Waitrose and subsequently led insight and operational change teams at major UK retailers including Asda and SSP Group. He has a PhD in applied statistics from a study on retail data and is a visiting fellow of Henley Business School.
Kris is a champion of the opportunities the industry provides to people of all backgrounds and is passionate about simplifying complexity that enables understanding and drives action.
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