The Marketing Factory | About Us
The Marketing Factory is one of the UK’s leading and most innovative marketing procurement consultancies, delivering savings and benefits to global clients through a range of bespoke, innovative solutions.
The Marketing Factory specialises in helping clients with all areas of their marketing spend, providing solutions to enable them to;
The Marketing Factory is able to provide solutions and focus on complex problems allowing you to concentrate on your core business.
Our services provide actionable insights at both a strategic and tactical level with a clear focus on delivering cost savings and increased value from clients’ marketing spend.
We only provide services within the marketing category. Our experience shows us that focus is everything in ensuring the best results. We are independent and unbiased and are not part of a bigger group that will try and sell you other services
Milan leads the primary delivery team for both procurement consultancy and shared service programmes. Within this role he works with a diverse group of marketing procurement specialists helping them to deliver both savings and added value to the client roster.
Using the combination of agency and procurement consultancy experience Milan is able to drive value back in to the customers marketing spend whilst helping them to maintain and grow their supplier relationships.
Peter has spent much of the past decade working with multinational businesses to help them improve the returns they achieve from their marketing investments
Peter comes to the Marketing Factory with a pedigree of high level entrepreneurship. Having owned and managed a number of highly successful enterprises, including a 3rd place in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Fast Track..
As a consultancy marketing procurement we are normally called in by companies to help solve a problem. It’s usually the case that they need to cut back costs in some form or another, so we’ll look through their data and speak to their suppliers to ensure they are getting the best value for money on all aspects of their marketing spend. Nine times out of ten, we will find that there are enormous savings to be had, working practices to amend and marketing activities to align. To the client, this all sounds great. We charge a fee that is comparatively insignificant to the savings they make, get on with the work and help their company to get the value for money they need. Job done. Increasingly, companies are bringing in external experts to turn around the fortunes of their struggling brands and businesses. I recently read an article based on Beatrice Lafon, who has built a reputation as one of the world’s top fixers having worked with retailers such as M&S, Dorothy Perkins and River Island to helping address the problems they face. More recently, Lafon has been setting down roots as the president of Claire’s Accessories Europe, where she is working on an essential recovery plan for the company. But why does it have to be like that? Why do companies wait for problems to arise before seeking help? This blog post was inspired after meeting with a potential client who was refreshingly ahead of the mark. They understood that they required help as they saw the future of their already struggling industry: one with difficult times ahead...
