Julian Richer

Julian Richer is an English retailer, best known as the founder and 100% shareholder of Richer Sounds, the UK’s biggest hi-fi retailer. He is also the owner of EmpireDirect.co.uk. Richer has gained a reputation for his motivational style of management and his charitable activities.

Richer's business career started at the age of 14 while he was still at school at Clifton College, Bristol, and he opened his first shop near London Bridge aged 19. This store (now relocated to Tooley Street) in south London held the Guinness record for the highest sales per square foot of any retail outlet in the world and the company has now grown to over 50 stores across the UK.

In January 2011 Richer Sounds plc received a Royal Warrant from HRH The Prince of Wales as a supplier of Consumer Electronic Products. Which? awarded Richer Sounds its prestigious ‘Best Retailer’ award for 2010 and 2015, ‘Best High Street Retailer’ for 2011, and also rated it a Which? Recommended Provider in 2013, 2014 and 2016.

He is also a 51% shareholder of Audio Partnership, an electronics company designing, commissioning and distributing electronics to over 50 countries.

Richer developed his activities as a motivational adviser, and in the past advised some of the country’s largest organisations at chief executive level on staff motivation, customer service, cultural change, communications and suggestion schemes, although now he has stepped back from this role. His book, The Richer Way, is now in its fifth edition and was the best selling business book at WH Smith's when it was published in November 1995. He published his second book, Richer on Leadership, in January 1999.

Although not keen on public speaking, he was made the youngest ever Business Communicator of the Year for 1995. He was also awarded Honorary Doctorates in Business Administration from Kingston University in January 2002 and from Bournemouth University in 2003.

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