Tom Gladstone

Senior Leadership

Tom works with clients in the Retail sector and leads OC&C’s Private Equity practice.

He has substantial experience in strategy development, proposition improvement and supplier management – and a particular specialism in pricing optimisation on which he has advised a wide range of retailers. Tom also leads OC&C’s Private Equity practice, having advised on over 50 transactions in the last 6 years supporting buy-side diligence, vendor due diligence and IPO processes across multiple countries.

Education & Prior Experience

  • DPhil (Materials Science), Oxford University 
  • MA in Natural Science, Cambridge University

Related Publications

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

The forecourt of the future

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption across Europe is unstoppable. For fuel station forecourts this presents great change and opportunity in equal measure. In our latest report, we look at how the race to net zero is impacting the evolution of EV ownership, the future of charging and what consumers care about most, alongside its impact on forecourts. We also consider how forecourts can approach their strategy to futureproof business models and embrace the opportunities that lay ahead.

Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Private Equity & Transactions 2020

While 2020 was a turbulent year for the world, private equity activity remained very resilient – with the strong slowdown in activity in Q2 as the COVID pandemic hit followed by an equally strong step-up in activity in the second half of the year

Thursday, 9 February 2017

Happy Click-mas

Overall retail LFLs were up by 1.0% in Christmas 2016 (as measured by the BRC average) — after 4 years of broadly flat LFL growth

Friday, 5 February 2016

Damp spirits?

Overall retail like-for-likes were broadly flat in Christmas 2015, continuing the trend of the previous 3 years

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Flat out or out flat?

The UK economic recovery may be continuing (and wages finally growing faster than inflation), but from a retail Christmas trading perspective progress was uneven

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Christmas cheer?

Christmas trading results this year generated some positive headlines suggesting better than expected performance – but the actual like-for-like out-turn for UK retail was negative

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Top of the shops

The OC&C Proposition Index is a major piece of consumer research conducted annually, measuring shopper perception of the strength of different retail propositions

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

The good, the bad, and the ugly

The Christmas trading period this year may not have been a total wipeout, but it was a big disappointment for many retailers. And the stores sector is not out of the woods yet

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Cause for celebration?

To their relief, most retailers pulled off a good Christmas after a fraught year. As the festive trading season nears its end, Lisa Berwin examines the key findings from OC&C’s Christmas Trading Index

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