For retailers and brands
The Retail Group: free for retailers and brands
For major retailers, independent chains, brands and department stores. Find suppliers, see the latest stores and meet the people behind them, all free.
Retail Group membershipFree
What the Retail Group gives you
The right suppliers
Specialist designers, manufacturers and suppliers of retail display, online, over the phone and in person, all year round. Browse by product.
One brief, several replies
Describe your project once and we send it to the members who can help. They reply to you directly.
Inspiration
Shoptalk, Looking for inspiration and our Window Walk: the best new stores and windows, and the people behind them.
The Creative Retail Awards
Priority access to tickets for the Creative Retail Awards.
Events
Invitations to SDEA networking events and relevant trade shows.
Your stores, featured
Send us your new store designs for Looking for inspiration, the Directory and Shoptalk.
Training
LearnVM, the SDEA’s online visual merchandising course, for your store and VM teams.
A say
Have a say in new SDEA services, such as Convert+, the carbon calculator for suppliers and buyers.
You choose when to contact suppliers. Joining does not mean members will try to sell to you.
New for the Retail Group
Free co-working in King’s Cross
Work between store visits and meet suppliers at 103 KCR, the industry hub run by SDEA member H.O.L Group. It is free, Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 5pm.
Members’ work at the Creative Retail Awards 2026
13 SDEA members took 52 of the 113 places on the shortlist, then won six Winners Awards and nine Highly Commended Awards.
Join the Retail Group
It is free, and takes a minute.