Plenty of agencies can build a shop. Very few have had to make one pay — month after month, with their own money on the line. We have run these businesses ourselves for twenty years: lighting, home and garden, retail and trade, plus the portals behind them. Now we do it for yours.
Fig. 1 — technical line drawing, produced in-house.Drawn for you
Operators first. Every number above comes from businesses we built and traded ourselves, not from client logos we borrowed.
Put your site next to theseWhatsApp usOpen any line for what's inside. Or skip the reading — book the review and we'll tell you which one is costing you the most.
The name, the mark, the story behind it. Useful if you are launching an outlet, splitting trade from retail, or putting a brand round stock you already own.
+A site a trade buyer can actually order from, then someone on hand when it breaks at 4pm on a Friday.
+Most catalogues leak in the same three places. We find yours and fix them in the order that pays back soonest.
+Specs written so a specifier does not have to ring you to check an IP rating or a cut-out size.
+Line drawings, cut-outs and short videos for catalogues far too big to shoot line by line.
+Search and paid built around how the trade actually buys, rather than around impressions.
+We look at the site, the catalogue and the ad accounts, then tell you which of the six is costing you the most — and what fixing it is worth.
Brands we have built, run or worked on — retail, trade, content and wholesale. The scope is the real scope, nothing padded.
Send the URL and a rough line count. We come back with the three things we would fix first.
Book a site review
Trade-led commercial lighting — shop-by-solution navigation, trade pricing and next-day stock on panels and fittings. Built and scaled to seven figures before the trading assets were sold on.
Want this for your trade site?
The premium end, editorially merchandised — direct-import ranges, a curated seasonal edit and a project list for specifiers.
Launching a brand? Talk to us
Downlight specialist, 1,000+ lines — a ten-second finder that narrows the catalogue by room, rating and finish.
Need a finder like this?
Electrical wholesale across 55 branches. We advised on the web build, the design and the content — trade accounts, branch locator and inc/ex VAT switching over a deep catalogue.
Run a branch network? Let's talk
Advice and guides — how-to content plus lumen and colour-temperature calculators that feed the commercial sites. ~800K monthly Pinterest impressions.
Want content that sells?
Trade electrical retail across 13 branches — catalogue-led, with clearance lines and a fast order form for account holders.
Big catalogue? Book a review
A decorative glass lighting brand built from the ground up — name, identity, store, catalogue and paid launch in one engagement.
Start a brand from nothingNot a forty-page deck. One sheet you could hand to anyone — with a cost and an expected effect against each line, so you can decide with numbers rather than adjectives.
Missing GTINs and mismatched titles — the ads you pay for can't show the products that convert.
Payback · under 4 weeksNo inc/ex VAT switch and no account pricing on PDPs — the buyer phones instead of ordering.
Payback · 6–8 weeksSpecifiers can't shortlist without it — every one is a support email or a lost order.
Payback · one quarterFour stages, in order. You get something useful at the end of the first one whether or not you carry on.
We go through the site, the catalogue and the ad accounts, then tell you what is costing you money.
A short list, ordered by what pays back soonest. Cost against expected effect. No forty-page deck.
Build, content, assets, campaigns — whichever lines you have signed off. Fortnightly check-ins.
What moved, what did not, what is next. Monthly retainer or project by project, your call.
Project by project, or monthly with 30 days' notice. We would rather you stayed because it is working.
Accounts, code, content and creative are in your name from day one. If we part company, you lose nothing.
If a line item will not pay back for you, we will tell you rather than sell it. That usually comes up in the review.
Tell us the site and what is bothering you. We come back with the three things we would fix first.
Louise & Mike
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Useful up front: roughly how many lines you carry, what platform you are on, and whether you sell trade, retail or both.