What we do
Pasmar Associates helps clients improve efficiency and enhance business performance using tried and tested approaches.
Who we are
Pasmar Associates is an international, integrated and independent organisation, specialised in strategic management and business planning.
Welcome to Pasmar Associates
Pasmar Associates is a specialised consulting firm which provides business development support to companies offering industrial, commercial and technology based products and services worldwide.
We help companies to identify new customers, capitalise on market opportunities, respond to market and competitive challenges, enhance customer service and satisfaction, improve distribution and sales and obtain marketplace input for developing new products and services. At Pasmar Associates, we align our practice specialists with colleagues around the world who know their local market. This helps us determine common ground that can be woven into global strategies for clients.
Latest News
January 26 2012
RETAIL SALES FELL IN JANUARY Retail sales fell in January, as shoppers reined in their spending after taking advantage of early discounting last month, according to research from the CBI. The latest monthly CBI Distributive Trades Survey, which covers the first two weeks in January, found that 44% of retailers said sales volumes were down on the same period of the previous year. Some 22% said they... [Read more]
January 9 2012
UK: MORE RETAILERS SET TO FALL INTO ADMINISTRATION The total number of retailers in England and Wales falling into administration increased by 11% during 2011 to 183, with further troubles ahead, according to research from consultancy firm Deloitte. Findings from Deloitte’s recent Consumer Tracker, which monitors consumer confidence and spending habits, found that 36% of consumers are spending less... [Read more]
January 6 2012
LOWEST SHOP PRICE INFLATION FOR A YEAR Overall shop price inflation fell to 2.0% in November from 2.1% in October. Food inflation fell to 4.0% in November from 4.2% in October. Non-food inflation was unchanged at 0.8% in November. Stephen Robertson, British Retail Consortium Director General, said: “At a time when petrol prices and utility bills are sky-high, fierce competition in the retail... [Read more]
Research & Intelligence
THE KPMG/SYNOVATE RETAIL THINK TANK The KPMG/Synovate Retail Think Tank (RTT) was jointly set up in 2006 by professional services firm KPMG and retail research group Synovate, both Associate Members of the British Retail Consortium. The Retail Think Tank has been conceived and created to provide the authoritative, credible and most trusted window on what is really happening in retail and to develop... [Read more]
FASHION AND LUXURY GOODS by Dr. Philippa Malmgren The world economy is now in the midst of the first supply-side shock since the 1973 Opec crisis. Lack of access to lending and working capital has destroyed many of the marginal additional suppliers in all extractive industries – farming, mining and energy – thus pushing these prices, from cotton and rubber, to iron ore and oil, not only upward... [Read more]
