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

czwartek, 19 stycznia 2023

Opportunities & New Frontiers in Pet

In our latest consumer insight, we partner with global investment bank and M&A specialist Harris Williams to dig deep into the pet market.

czwartek, 17 lutego 2022

Private Equity & Transactions 2021

2021 was a record year for transactions globally – as activity remained exceptionally strong despite the ongoing challenges of the COVID pandemic, global supply chain issues and the challenges of rising inflation and energy prices during the year.

wtorek, 16 lutego 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

wtorek, 23 października 2018

Are you up to speed with Due Diligence 2.0?

In an environment of high deal valuations and plentiful dry powder, investors need to work harder than ever to track down the best assets and set themselves up to make a strong investment

czwartek, 9 lutego 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

piątek, 5 lutego 2016

Damp spirits?

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

środa, 28 stycznia 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

środa, 12 grudnia 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

środa, 22 sierpnia 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

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