Richard Richardson Biography
RICHARD RICHARDSON began his career in marketing with Rowntree Mackintosh before spending the next 12 years with multi-national advertising agencies such as BBDO and Young & Rubicam. He teamed up with John Barnes to turn Harry Ramsden's from a single Fish & Chip shop in Yorkshire into a highly successful international brand on a shoestring before selling the business to Compass PLC, the world's largest catering company. Richard was responsible for the marketing and franchise development.
Marketing Judo
Richard and John fell into a way of thinking which they now call "Marketing Judo", based on the principles of Judo where brains matter more than brawn, and where anyone can become a Black Belt if they move quickly, train hard enough and keep their balance when others don't!
Richard takes you through their 7 moves of Marketing Judo that they are successfully applying to both their own and other companies today. Packed with amusing stories and events from their own experiences as well as practical examples from a whole range of companies, Richard demonstrates how it's always possible to find a competitive advantage - however small your budget or large your opponent!
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Richard Richardson News
A selection of relevant news related to Richard Richardson, After Dinner Speakers and Keynote Speakers, Business Speakers, Leadership Speakers, Marketing & Branding and Retail Speakers stories. For more information on Richard Richardson or details as to how to book Richard Richardson for your corporate event, please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0)20 7607 7070 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk
Sir Terry Leahy Adjusts to Life After Tesco
11th April 2013
Business speaker and former CEO of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy stepped down from his position at Tesco in 2011 at the age of 55, he has since started working with several charities, invested in small businesses and written a book.
Mary Perkins Wins Director of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
2nd November 2011
Director Magazine has awarded Dame Mary Perkins, Specsavers queen, entrepreneur, and retail keynote speaker, the Director of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.
Entrepreneurs’ Forum Boasts Speakers Corner's Best
20th May 2011
The North East of England is the venue for the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, where a handful of Speakers Corner’s top talent take the stage to inspire business leaders and aspirational executives from all over the UK. Hamish McRae, Sarah Willingham, Tim Smit, James Timpson, James Cracknell, and Simon Calver are all on the programme, as are Kanya King, Douglas McWilliams, Karen Mattison, John Timpson and Richard Huntingford – all inspiration and charismatic public speakers.
Will Whitehorn Appointed as Chair of Catapult Board
27th March 2013
Keynote speaker and former President of Virgin Galactic, Will Whitehorn, has been appointed as chairman of the new Transport System Catapult.
Simon Calver Becomes an Author
28th February 2013
After dinner speaker and current CEO of Mothercare, Simon Calver, has decided to write a book about his time working as the head of Lovefilm, the movie rental service.
Sir Martin Sorrell: Britain’s Most Admired Leader
21st December 2012
Management Today has voted Sir Martin Sorrell, who built advertising giant WPP from scratch, as Britain’s Most Admired leader.
John Mattone on Thinkers 50 List
5th July 2012
Keynote speaker John Mattone has been named in the prestigious biennial Thinkers50 "Guru Radar" list as one of their 25 emerging stars in leadership development.
Tim Waterstone says “Amazon is Discounting us to Death”
29th June 2012
Waterstones founder Tim Waterstone tells the Guardian that Amazon is “smart, single-minded and ruthless – and it is destroying Britain's book industry.”
Top 10 Speakers for 2012
27th December 2011
As the year draws to a close, Speakers Corner looks forward to the promise of the intriguing and opportune months ahead. 2012 is set to be a year of economic optimism, business innovation and a host of rising stars on the corporate circuit – all primed to motivate, educate, stimulate and entertain.
Richard Reed Tells of Innocent Success
19th December 2011
Innocent co-founder Richard Reed tells Director Magazine how his company kept control after breaking corporate tradition by selling a ÂŁ30m stake to Coca-Cola in 2009. Innocent has maintained its position as arguably the most successful UK brand of the new millennium, and Speakers Corner proudly presents a host of Innocent speakers, all ideally placed to motivate and entertain on the corporate circuit. Joe McEwan, Dan Germain and Jessica Sansom, as well as Reed himself are all in high demand for corporate events.
Richard Richardson Reviews
Richard Richardson has spoken and appeared at a number of recent corporate events. Please find some client speaker testimonials and reviews for Richard Richardson for a number of these events and conferences. If you would like some additional information as to how to book Richard Richardson for your corporate event, then please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0)20 7607 7070 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk
Richard was very engaging and has a real rapport with the audience. His style was active and encouraged participation from the crowd making for a fun and interesting talk.
Richard used a different approach at the beginning of his speech and had some great anecdotal content. He met all our expectations - motivational, informative and realistic.
What was best about Richard was his enthusiasm and passion for his subject and his groundwork prior to the speech to tailor it to our customers. Richard was excellent. He gave lots of interesting food for thought and fitted into the theme of the day perfectly.
We enjoyed the music that introduced Richard's speech as well as the speech itself! He has a great personality and was very approachable.
Thank you for a thoroughly enjoyable session. Everyone on the feedback forms has rated the speaker as excellent.
Richard Richardson is an interesting, informative and entertaining speaker who understands the problems of starting a small business and turning it into a big one. He had a great rapport with the audience and we really appreciated him staying until the last guest left.
He was on time, very approachable and our audience found him inspiring. Richard was very friendly and more than met our expectations.
Richard had a great content, a good style and delivered his speech very well. He related the subject matter directly to our audience.
Richard went down well with our audience. He was an excellent speaker, engaging and entertaining.
For further information or to book Richard Richardson, call us on +44 (0)20 7607 7070 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk
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