Lumiere Associates Ltd

Lumière Associates specialises in book publishing, business consulting and brand strategy with a particular emphasis on ethical, sustainable and holistic  business practice.

Company principal Angela Clarke has  over 15 years' experience in business and marketing strategy, working with blue chip companies including Orient-Express Hotels,  Air France, Abercrombie & Kent and the Champagne Board of France.  

Lumière also provides expert advice for a wide range of strategic and marketing issues including repositioning, re-branding, troubleshooting, and marketing due diligence for new acquisitions. In addition, the company provides web-based intelligence and advice on areas of critical importance to small to medium hotels and hotel chains.   

Angela has a Bachelor of Arts Communications and Master of Business in Marketing.  Her strengths lie in identifying critical marketing issues which affect both internal and external areas of an organisation,  and providing strategic, comprehensive, and cost-effective advice to meet challenges and exploit new opportunities. 

Lumiere Associate Claire Finlay

With some 15 years’ experience in advertising and marketing Claire has spent much of her advertising career working for some of the leading global agencies. As Group Account Director at J.Walter Thomson she devised solutions (big and small) for some of the best known brands around; Shell (across Europe), KPMG, FSA, Hogg Robinson Business Travel. Looking for a new challenge, she went into partnership running her at her own agency whilst being responsible for key travel brands…Abercrombie & Kent, Von Essen Hotels and Cosmos Yachting…travel is where her skills and knowledge now lies. Claire works in association with several key business partners specialising in travel and leisure.           

Associates

The company’s associates provide both strategic and tactical support, in the following areas of expertise:  

• Strategic operating management, providing detailed management strategies,

• Brand-building and advertising, specialising in brand management and global communications

• Sustainable tourism consultants, who advise on environmental policy and other critical issues,

• Web-building consultants, with state-of-the-art knowledge of the web,

• Public Relations consultants, providing media relations, event management, and crisis public relations,

• Research consultants experienced in specialist research techniques including hospitality benchmarking,

• Training consultants, specialised in small to medium sized training workshops,

• Direct Marketing consultants, specialised in the travel industry,

• Sales representation worldwide with experienced personnel in the field,

• Electronic Distribution, including experts in GDS and CRS management,

• Networking and mentoring

• Customer Relationship Management providers (CRM)

Contact details:

Angela Clarke

Managing Partner   angela@lumiereassociates.com