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Ensuring Business Transformation to Drive Sales and Profits

Ensuring Business Transformation to Drive Sales and Profits
Learn how retailers can create agile, customer-centric organizations that adapt faster, improve operational efficiency, and deliver long-term business value.

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Columbus Consulting is a leading retail consulting firm. Our retail consultants are industry practitioners who have worked with and for global brands in wholesale, retail, CPG and grocery. For 25+ years we have been helping our clients with merchandise planning, assortment planning, inventory planning, demand forecasting, financial planning, store systems consulting, IT consulting, POS consulting, supply chain consulting, data analytics consulting, digital transformation and more. If you do it, we do it, too!

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Our retail consultants specialize in nearly every aspect of the industry. In addition to our core expertise areas, we have professionals who offer an array of spotlight services including: Unified Commerce, Data & Analytics, Grocery, and ESG/DPP/Sustainability. FIND OUT MORE HERE

Why Columbus

For over 25+ years Columbus Consulting has been transforming our industry. We’re not like other consultants, we are retail industry practitioners who have held senior-level roles. We work with and for our clients, building long-term relationships and consistently providing solutions that drive value and results.

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What we do

From strategy to implementation, Columbus has worked with over 400 leading retailer, CPG and grocery brands. Our specialties include: unified commerce, digital transformation, planning & merchandising, sourcing & supply chain, inventory management, finance & operations, strategy design and data.

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Merchandise, Planning, Assortment, & Inventory Management

Columbus around the world

Learn more about our EMEA team and global activities with our latest international insights, event activity and talent profiles.

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Featured Content

Ensuring Business Transformation to Drive Sales and Profits

By Craig Rosenblum, Principal, Columbus Consulting

In today’s rapidly evolving retail environment, success demands more than operational excellence—it requires a reimagined mindset, new skills, and strategic leadership capable of guiding transformation through continuous change. As demonstrated …

From Data to Decisions: What Retailers Are Doing Now to Stay Competitive

A Retail Round-up From Our Breakfast Series

There’s a noticeable shift happening in retail—and it’s no longer theoretical.

Over the course of the Columbus Consulting 2026 Retail Breakfast Series, one thing has become clear: the industry has …

WHAT’S ON THE RETAIL HORIZON

For over 25 years, Columbus Consulting has helped retailers drive transformation through many industry milestones. From the emergence of digital/social/mobile commerce to geo-political events like Covid and Tariffs, to unified commerce and agentic AI, our …

Where AI Really Helps in the Product Development Process

By Nancy Marino, Associate Partner Columbus Consulting

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quietly transformed the way people work for many years. From chatbots and fraud detection to noise cancellation and predictive analytics, AI has improved countless digital …

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Team Spotlight

Vicki Alvarado

Vicki is a Principal with Columbus Consulting with extensive global experience in merchandise and assortment Planning across fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands. She brings a unique blend of creative and analytical leadership, specializing in business …