RESEARCH THE MARKET
Understand the landscape, the competition, the pricing, the opportunity.
Start a conversation
01 / SIGNAL
Commercial clarity. Real world momentum.
BRANDS DON’T
NEED MORE NOISE.
THEY NEED A WAY FORWARD.
Four decades inside retail, distribution and international growth, helping ambitious brands turn ideas to opportunities and into action.
40+
YEARS
IN MARKET
IN MARKET
STRATEGY → MARKET ENTRY → DISTRIBUTION →
COMMERCIAL LEADERSHIP → BRAND CREATION →
02 / METHOD
The MCS method
UNDERSTAND.
CONNECT.
MOVE.
Experience matters most when it becomes action. Mallard Channel Soluitions brings commercial judgement, market understanding and the right relationships together around one practical, commercial route forward.
PROPOSAL
Build the pricing, positioning and channel plan that can hold up in the real world and present it back to you.
DEPLOYMENT
Once you have approved the proposal we move, connecting with distributors, retailers and commercial partners who can move things forward.
STAY INVOLVED
Once we have the business rolling I say with you supporting and maintaining the downstrean realtionships.
03 / MOMENTUM
Markets do not open themselves
OPEN
THE
MARKET.
Strategy, commercial leader with routes to market for consumer technology and lifestyle brands ready to move across EMEA.
40+
YEARS
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
4
CONNECTED
DESTINATIONS
DESTINATIONS
1
PERSONALLY LED
PARTNER
PARTNER
CLIENTS + PARTNERS
04 / THE MALLARD GROUP
ONE COMMERCIAL FOUNDATION.
TWO VENTURES CREATED.
Mallard Channel Solutions does more than advise businesses. It creates, builds and operates alongside them, bringing commercial and creative thinking into one connected group.
Markets understood.
Relationships built.
Growth made practical.
An original lifestyle brand being built from the inside, because creating a brand teaches things no presentation ever could.
DISCOVER THE CONSUMER VENTURE → 03 / CREATED BY MCS
Brand identity, communication and digital experiences built around commercial clarity.
DISCOVER THE BRAND VENTURE →The person behind it
FOUR DECADES OF EXPERIENCE.
ONE PERSON ACCOUNTABLE.
I’m Martin. I have spent more than forty years inside retail, distribution and international commercial growth across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mallard Channel Solutions and the wider group of businesses brings that experience together without layers, handoffs or disappearing acts.
OPERATOR
ENTREPRENEUR
COMMERCIAL LEADER
PILOT
05 / START SOMEWHERE
NOTHING STARTS
WITHOUT A CONVERSATION.
It may lead to a project, an introduction or simply a useful exchange.
It may lead nowhere today and somewhere six months from now. That is absolutely fine.