About Us
Boom Retail are consultants with a background in design, business, marketing and sales performance using techniques to lift the average sale and stimulate buying.
We specialise in the shopper experience and assist shopping centres, property companies, private owners and large retailers with solutions to improve the experience and sales performance. Our expertise resides in 25 years of branding, retail design consultancy, 237 shopping centre reviews, store layout, consultancy, signage & wayfinding reviews, interior design for sales and shopping centre customer experience reviews.
DEBRA YOUNG
Founder & Director
Debra Young is Founder and Director of Boom Retail Services
She is a published author, has worked in over 9 countries. She has a broad knowledge of the international retail market with extensive retail management consulting experience and shopping centre marketing & development. Debra has over 25 years of experience working with large property companies, their retail clients, large national chains and shopping centre management teams. Debra achieved the highest honour in the shopping centre industry with MAXI awarded in the USA by International Shopping Centre Council.
Her formal qualifications include Bcom Marketing, Diploma Interior Design and Diploma, Visual Merchandising, and QLD Real Estate Licence Program for property and agency with full property management diploma. She uses these qualifications to give an edge in terms of business function and design. The major emphasis is on increasing sales, which are created through the visual medium which influences consumer buying and lifting the average sale. Debra and her team will work with 10 - 12 businesses a week and ongoing to maximise retail profit through customised business solutions.
Debra provides practical advice in the areas of “the preview zone”, marketing, product placement, store layout, marketing, signage, displays, marketing offer, sales, customer service, online advice, visual merchandising, signage, colour, space allocation, lighting, use of “hot spots”, category management and consumer movement.
This includes serving property management, shopping centres and their tenants and SME businesses. In addition, Debra provides retail expertise and coaching to retail management teams and solution providers to the retail industry.
We consult 1:1 with Fashion Stores, Pharmacies, Home & Gift stores, Leisure businesses, Food & Beverage outlets or cafes, Hotels & Motels, Swimming Pools for the Councils and hundreds of shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Background Overview:
- Co-owner of 3 retail businesses and 8 businesses in total
- Software Co-owner/Director of Retail Manager (RPM) – 8 years
- 12 shopping centre redevelopments
- Reviewed 223 Shopping Centres or Food Courts
- Tourism project achievement - highest sales per square metre - $2million in one year turnover and increase margin 58%
- 2017 QLD Small Guns winner for highest sales per GLA for QLD centres Gasworks Plaza - Mulpha (owner)
- ICSC Maxi Award Winner - International Council of Shopping Centres USA & Australia 2003
- 25 years of business consultancy, asset reviews, design, reviews and marketing projects.
- Boom Retail Group works with property groups, hotel groups, architects, shopping centres and general businesses.
- We review and consult between 12 - 15 businesses every week through the year. We worked with over 9000+ retail businesses since 1995.
- International conference speaker - Asia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, and New Caledonia. Toyoko, Thaliand, Malaysia, Variety of places around Australia, and USA