The Small Business Sessions
Podcasts for small business owners 🎙️
Whether you're starting out or scaling up, the right advice makes all the difference. Enterprise Nation's podcasts cover everything from funding and marketing to legal must-knows and success stories – straight from UK entrepreneurs and industry experts. Tune in and get inspired!
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🎧 The Small Business Sessions
The Small Business Sessions is a weekly podcast from our business.connected training programme, in partnership with Vodafone Business, that shares practical tips and stories from inspiring entrepreneurs and digital experts.
Access free training in a range of digital business areas, from online marketing to AI and smarter working at www.enterprisenation.com/business-connected
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🎧 The Small Business Retail Sessions
The Small Business Retail Sessions is a podcast series from our Powering the High Street programme, in collaboration with EDF.
It explores the major challenges facing today’s retailers – from declining footfall, vacant storefronts, post-pandemic recovery and sustainability.
Whether you're a seasoned shopkeeper or a digital business ready to make the leap to bricks-and-mortar, Powering the High Street is your gateway to making a meaningful retail impact. Discover more at enterprisenation.com/poweringthehighstreet
The Small Business Sessions
Sam Matanle on redefining the suit through made-to-order fashion | The Small Business Retail Sessions
Welcome to the Small Business Retail Sessions podcast, brought to you by Enterprise Nation's Powering the High Street programme, in collaboration with EDF.
This series explores the major challenges that today's retailers are facing – from declining footfall and vacant shop-fronts to the post-pandemic recovery and increasing demand for sustainability.
In the 10th and final episode of the series, we're joined by Sam Matanle, co-founder of Batch.
Batch is a menswear brand whose mission is to raise the standard of sustainability in fashion by eliminating overproduction and waste.
Founded in 2021, it produces high-quality casual suits made to order – manufacturing only what's needed. With a flagship store in Covent Garden and a growing online presence, Batch is redefining what the modern suit can be: versatile, well-made and built to last.
In this episode, Sam shares the story behind Batch's launch, the challenges of building a slow fashion brand and how transparency, customer experience and relentless focus have driven its growth.
Topics discussed in the episode:
- How Sam and co-founder Julian spotted a gap in the market for casual suits
- Why Batch makes everything to order – and how it drastically reduces waste
- The difference between made-to-order and made-to-measure (and why it matters)
- Lessons from entering the fashion world without a fashion background
- Why off-the-shelf sizing and a single perfected fit works for most customers
- How the in-store experience builds trust, loyalty and higher conversion rates
- Managing customer expectations in a world of next-day delivery
- Why sustainability isn't the lead message – and what actually motivates shoppers
- How Batch has used celebrity and influencer partnerships to build credibility
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Through the Powering the High Street programme, we're bringing new energy to retail in the UK. We're helping small businesses thrive on the high street – through expert support, smart energy advice and practical tools to grow sustainably.
Find out more at enterprisenation.com/poweringthehighstreet/
To listen to previous podcast episodes, go to enterprisenation.com/podcast
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