David Slater, Marketing & Innovation Director, Lantmannen Unibake UK
“Tom from Gulliver & Co Consulting worked with us at Lantmännen Unibake for a number of years, first as a Commercial Strategy Consultant and later stepping up to work as a Commercial Category Manager working across food service, wholesale and retail. He has a strong ability to combine commercial thinking with genuine category expertise. He built the case that unlocked new growth areas across our frozen bakery portfolio, and went on to help us secure group-level sign-off for a capex investment, managing stakeholders across the UK and Copenhagen. Beyond the numbers, Tom is someone who gets things done: he project-managed our largest UK capex investment in a decade and delivered a five-year category strategy to our Group Leadership Team. He’s commercially rigorous, easy to work with at every level of the business, and consistently delivers results. I’d recommend him without hesitation.”
James Newitt, Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at CoffeeB UK and Ireland, fractional BDO at Modern Baker and MD at Space-Grill UK
“Tom has worked with me as a consultant across a number of my businesses over the last 15 years. He was instrumental in developing the category story for me at Meatsnacks Group where we used his expertise to open up new category opportunities and multiple new retailer listings (including winning Tesco solus business). He went on to advise and help with the sale of the business following leading a research project, from which he instigated a complete brand and pack/portfolio architecture redesign. Subsequently Tom has supported me extensively with consultancy expertise at Modern Baker, Space Grill (BBQ/Grills) and more recently my launch of CoffeeB (a revolutionary zero pod system). Over the time knowing and working with Tom, he’s always added great value to me and the team – hoping he will continue to do so! He is meticulous, insightful and challenging with his approach – all of which I like”
Edward Milner, M&SP Director, Hovis Bakeries
“I have known Tom from Gulliver & Co Consulting for quite some time. I believe I first brought him on as a contractor back in 2015/2016. Tom has a huge amount of experience in both category management and RGM as well and I have seen him work across all aspects of these roles. All colleagues give positive feedback on Tom consistently. He has worked across all major customers that Hovis deals with (this excludes Co-op and Iceland essentially.) He approaches tasks in structured analytical way. Understands quickly and works incredibly well with others. He shines and excels at cross functional working and picks up new things very quickly.
Whenever I have needed support and had sign of for a contractor Tom has always been my first choice and has been working with me for about 18months now on most recent projects where once again I have been delighted with his work.”