Rufus Abbott

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About Rufus Abbott

Owner and Sales & Marketing Director of London based brand consultancy, The Goods Agency and e-commerce platform and retailer Eyeconomy Club.The Goods Agency is now widely regarded as the leading independent and fashion eyewear showroom in the business. We are the worlds only 360 agency in this sector, encompassing both global fashion and optical wholesale services with the full functions of a PR agency. Following our success in this particular secret, we have now expanded in to the realms of fashion accessory and lifestyle brands, as well as recently entering the travel PR sector.Eyeconomy Club is our growing independent eyewear retail venture, where we have an content driven online platform, with a growing European concession business, as well as opening our first retail store in 2019 at the brand new Grand Park Hotel Rovinj in the Istria region of Croatia. Our policy here is to retail and present only brands from our own extensive Goods Agency portfolio, making our retail operation an extension of our agency business.I have been lucky enough to have worked with some of the most exciting brands in fashion and agencies in Europe, and have had a long and varied career encompassing most divisions of the fashion, style and lifestyle industry. I have a particular love of working with small directional brands, rescuing ones that have lost their way and adding value and opening doors for them gives me a real sense of satisfaction and achievement.