Jamie Zuppinger
Jamie Zuppinger is co-founder and joint managing director of Barracuda Search.
OpinionOpinion: Black Friday could kill physical retail rather than cure
Working in retail is like being in the midst of the Charge of The Light Brigade – fire is coming from all directions but we are ill-equipped in defence.
OpinionComment: So you think retail can be tough? Try the Directors’ Commando Challenge
As if being a director of a retailer can’t be a tough ask, here’s another challenge that will be equally rewarding.
OpinionComment: Morrisons’ CEO search could cause strain at the top
The grocer must be considerate of its interim boss’s ambitions while it searches for a new chief executive, says Jamie Zuppinger.
OpinionComment: Scottish independence is opposed by British retailers
In the lead-up to the Scottish referendum, how can retailers rig an election, make some money and still keep Scotland in the Union?
OpinionComment: We must take steps to diversify the retail industry
In March Vince Cable gave an interview to The Guardian in which he accused the UK’s top companies of neglecting racial diversity in their boardrooms and urged business to use a wider talent pool when making appointments.
OpinionComment: The Morrisons “supertanker” is heading towards an iceberg
Talk of change at the top for Morrisons, as Sir Ken Morrison’s “iceberg” warning of impending danger has a familiar feel to it.
OpinionComment: Some of the retail IPO valuations are beyond belief
Barracuda Search co-founder and joint managing director Jamie Zuppinger is staggered by the valuations of recent retail IPOs
OpinionComment: How retail fared on the Christmas stage
At times, this festive selling and reporting period has resembled a Shakespearean Christmas with elements of farce, tragedy and comedy, at times all combined.
OpinionComment: What John Lewis' shopper report really reveals
Recently both the US’s National Security Agency and the UK’s GCHQ have made headlines because of their snooping on UK and European citizens.
OpinionComment: Are high street reviews needed when customers have the last word?
Comrades, today I am announcing the launch of the long-awaited Zuppinger Inquiry and Review into why it takes so many inquiries and reviews into retail to come up with a panacea for high street woes.
OpinionComment: British retailing should learn from the US and hire from the military
I was recently invited to St James’s Palace for the inaugural reception for the Royal Marines charity the C Group.
OpinionComment: Retailers need to understand the new generation of consumers
Just when retailers thought they had digital and multichannel cracked, there is now a potentially bigger nightmare
on the horizon, one that could threaten the existence of some: Generation Y.
OpinionComment: There are international opportunities out there for retail
If you happen to be a libertarian socialist, ex-miner or of a misogynistic nature, I would advise that you stop reading this column now.
OpinionComment: Showrooming - the new buzz word for retailers
Just when you thought you had cracked one buzz word, along comes the next battleground in the war for the consumer – showrooming.
OpinionComment: How did Harry Selfridge make Selfridges so successful?
How on Earth anyone can say a career in retail is boring is beyond me after the last week or two. It’s been inundated with retail mystery, intrigue and so much more.
OpinionComment: Corporation tax in the spotlight
I am penning this from the Barracuda fulfilment centre – sorry, distribution centre – located in Switzerland (purely for logistics reasons, nothing to do with a favourable tax rate).
OpinionComment: Retailers must adapt and change to survive
It is absolutely futile trying to save the high street or the ‘traditional retailer’, or in fact any retailer, be it multiple or independent, with a flawed product strategy and trading execution.
OpinionComment: Retailers should do more to capitalise on the Olympics
Bonkers, barmy, brilliant and British: the opening ceremony is over, the greatest show on earth has begun and the world is watching.
OpinionSurviving the company turnaround
As headhunters we often unsurprisingly nowadays get to work alongside turnaround companies parachuting in either interim or permanent executives to help effect a turnaround.