Margaret Melville

Margaret has over 29 years' experience in the UK fashion industry through senior executive roles across a number of leading retailers including Matalan and Peacocks. During her tenure at Peacocks, she successfully grew the womenswear category from 10% to 35% of total revenue and reduced average lead times by 25 days. She then moved into the online pure play world with responsibility for the buying function at Sosandar. Margaret’s has unique visibility of best practise in buying strategy and supply chain economics in the UK value fashion and fast-fashion industry.