Julie Townsend
Director of Simply Products
As Director of Simply Products, Julie continually finds more products and vendors for healthcare, wellness, gift, convenience, and other unique products. Julie is the envy of the office; she gets to shop all day, researching the most current trends, finding vendors of quality products and developing partnerships. This helps our clients find great products quickly and easily through the Simply Products website.
Julie contributes highly customized product lists for the concepts (stores) recommended in the Retail Discovery process, and helps the Retail Trek team by setting up open-to-buy financial plans for our client, making product recommendations according to the financial analysis developed during Discovery.
With Julie's trend-spotting eye and detailed understanding of what a successful retailer needs, she is the perfect fit for Simply Products.
Since she was sixteen years old, Julie has worked in retail, and she continues to love it. Previously, Julie was a General Manager for Express, The Limited Brand. She oversaw business and merchandising operations, increasing store sales by 16% in one year. Julie has also worked for ShopNBC where she assisted in buying products which were featured on-air as well as for Marshall Fields Department Store.
Julie understands all aspects of visual merchandising, knowing that intelligent use of aesthetics and planning will increase sales, improve the customer experience, and connect patients with products that they will not only need, but also love.
Julie lives in Eden Prairie with her husband and their West Highland Terrier, Maggie. In her spare time Julie likes to garden, decorate her house, and she has even been known to sew. She loves to spend her summers at their cabin.
Julie has worked with numerous healthcare industry clients while at Simply Retail. Click here for the Simply Retail's client list.
