Retail Merchandising Agency.
Executional is a UK retail merchandising agency supplying experienced merchandisers who keep your products where the planogram says they should be.
Book in store merchandising visits for one store or a nationwide rollout, from 40 UK hubs, with the same faces returning to the same stores wherever we can.
What is retail merchandising?
Retail merchandising is the work of making sure a product is actually on shelf, in the right place, at the right facing count and with the right point of sale around it. Merchandise staff are the people who organise, display and sell products in a store or at an event, and in store merchandising is that job done with your planogram in hand, because a range that is correct on paper only earns its space once it is built that way on the shelf.Retail merchandisers are quoted on the store list, the tasks, the visit length and the locations, so the cost moves with the size of the estate rather than sitting on a fixed retainer. Day rates, hours and on-costs are broken down, with no hidden fees.
Checked, Insured & Certified
Right-to-Work documents checked on every person, with Employer and Public Liability cover on every visit. DBS checks and risk assessments available on request.Right-to-Work checked on every person, with Employer and Public Liability cover on every visit. DBS on request.
Briefed On Your Planograms
Your planograms, brand standards and reporting template become a tailored brief the merchandiser works from in the aisle, not a verbal instruction.A tailored brief covering your planograms, standards and reporting.
In-House PAYE & HMRC
Payroll, tax deductions, National Insurance and HR responsibilities are all handled in house, never subcontracted.Payroll, tax, National Insurance and HR all handled in house.
Tracked And Reported
Geo-tagged check-ins at every store and live attendance monitoring, with reporting agreed in your quote and built around how you already work.Geo-tagged check-ins and live attendance monitoring, reporting agreed in your quote.
Three retail merchandising services brands book most
Get a merchandising quote →Take a look through our retail merchandising services below, or get in touch to talk through your store list.
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Point of sale merchandising
Displays built, POS installed and bays kept looking like the brief.
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Planogram merchandising
Your layout walked store by store, corrected where the shelf has drifted.
Read more →Why brands use Executional as their merchandising company
In store visual merchandising only pays off if somebody actually did it. Six things our merchandising staff are in store to do, on a visit booked for nothing else.
Brands and merchandising companies book us for the same reason. The gap between a compliant estate and a non-compliant one is rarely the plan. It is whether the person in the aisle had the plan, the time and the brief to work from.
We follow the planogram, not a guess
Facings counted, range checked, the shelf rebuilt to match the layout you sent. A planogram that is right in head office and wrong in aisle four is worth nothing.
We build the POS properly
Displays assembled, point of sale installed, promotional bays squared up and left the way the brief drew them, not propped against a fixture.
We report the way you want it
Reporting is agreed in the quote before anything is confirmed. We can work in your own systems, or build forms of our own and share them back with you.
We flag the gap before it costs you
Stock rotated, shelves replenished and availability issues reported while there is still time to fix them, rather than in a month end summary.
We turn up in numbers when the reset does
New store openings, range resets, fixture changes and seasonal changeovers, staffed at short notice from the hub nearest each site.
We send the same faces back
A merchandiser who already knows your fixture works faster than one learning it. We hold teams on the same stores across a cycle wherever we can.
See our merchandising staff in action
Store estates we have walked, displays we have built and audits we have handed back. Every one run by our own merchandisers.
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What clients say about working with us
How to hire in store merchandisers
Whether it is six stores once or six hundred every cycle, you deal with one team throughout. Four steps, and you are only involved in the first two.
Send the store list
The stores, the tasks, the cycle and what you want photographed. Send the planograms and the brand standards with it and we will build the brief around them.
Get the costing
Fully itemised, with day rates and on-costs broken out. Usually back within hours.
Match and deploy
One account manager takes it from there, matching merchandisers from our own 6,000 staff on retail experience and the hub nearest each store.
Report and invoice
Reporting comes back in the format agreed in your quote. Billing is agreed there too, before the work starts.
Get a fast, costed quote for merchandisers
Send the store list and staffing numbers you require.
Or call us directly on 0113 479 0075 or 0203 026 1069
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Retail merchandising staff FAQs
The questions we get before a first booking: what a visit costs, how a national list is covered, what comes back afterwards and who turns up.
How much does retail merchandising cost?
There is no single rate. What moves the number is how many stores, how long each visit takes, what is in scope and how often the cycle repeats. Quotes come back fully itemised with no hidden fees, usually within hours, so you can see what you are paying for before you commit.
How quickly can you cover a nationwide store list?
It depends on the size of the list, the dates and what each visit involves, so the real answer comes with the quote. We work with brands and merchandising agencies uk wide, drawing on 6,000 staff across 40 UK hubs. Where stores sit close together the same merchandiser usually covers several of them, so there are fewer people to brief and the team already knows your fixture. Seasonal peaks book up well ahead, so a Christmas or Easter changeover is worth raising early.
What do I get back after each store visit?
Whatever the brief sets out. Reporting is built around your requirements and agreed in the quote before anything is confirmed, so it matches how you already work. We can work in your own systems, or build reporting forms of our own and share them back with you.
Do you work with merchandising agencies as well as brands?
Yes. Some of our work comes from other merchandising companies, field merchandising agencies and sales and merchandising agencies who need merchandisers in a region they do not cover. We work white label under your brief and your reporting template, and we do not approach your client.
What makes a merchandising programme work?
Three things, in order: a planogram the merchandiser actually has in their hand, enough time booked per store to do the job rather than tick it, and the same people returning to the same fixture. Under-booking the visit is the most common and most expensive mistake.
How do you choose merchandisers?
We match to the role, choosing from 6,000 staff on our own books. As a merchandiser agency the people are ours rather than sourced per booking, and retail experience and the hub nearest the store are what decide it. Right to work and ID are checked for everyone, with DBS available on request.
Can you do visual merchandising as well as compliance?
Yes. In store visual merchandising, window builds and display dressing come up alongside compliance work on plenty of briefs. We staff them UK wide, so a visual merchandising agency London brief is covered the same way as one anywhere else. Tell us what yours covers and we will quote it.
Do you supply merchandise staff for concerts, festivals and sports events?
Yes, though that is a different job to retail merchandising and it is booked through a different page. Selling official merchandise from a stand or a pop up is covered by our festival staff, sports event staff and event staff teams. Merchandise staff on this page are the ones working retail fixtures rather than a merch stand.
How is merchandising different to product demonstration?
Merchandising is about the fixture: the right product, in the right place, at the right facing count. Product demonstration puts a person in front of the shopper to show the product working. Product sampling puts it in their hand. Plenty of briefs use two of the three on the same day.
Which retailers do you work in?
As a merchandising agency UK wide we cover grocery multiples, discounters, convenience, department stores, beauty halls, pharmacy, DIY, pet, travel retail and garden centres.
