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About the Retail Academy
The Retail Academy is an international learning organisation providing best-of-breed resources and tools designed to make a real impact on a retail business's bottom line. Our e-learning, tools and qualifications are designed by retailers, for retailers, to help people at all levels of retail to know more and do things better.
The Retail Academy was formed as a partnership between retailers themselves, and some of the top specialist retail trainers. This means that when you use Retail Academy training—whether it's bite-sized e-learning or training delivered by our partner colleges—you know that it will be relevant to the real business priorities of retail.
Retail Academy training is used and endorsed by leading international retailers, national franchises, and quality local businesses. View our case studies to see what good company you'll be in when you use Retail Academy training.
Our history
The Retail Academy was established in 2003 to provide a better way of developing retail training materials. The leading Business School at Manchester Metropolitan University and leading technology company MyKnowledgeMap teamed up with retailers and other training organisations to create a new kind of partnership that focused on retailers' business needs, and delivered training using the web.
The Academy grew out of the Retail Enterprise Network, a pan-European project supported by the European Social Fund.
The Academy continues to further the aims of the Retail Enterprise Network to encourage entrepreneurship and diversity in a sector where you have to be smart to be successful.