Tom Brennan has been involved in the field of site location research since 1977, when he began work for A & P in New Jersey. Since that time, he has worked as a consultant to a number of national and international companies requiring services in facility sales forecasting, site selection, market strategy, consumer research and software development.
From 1980 to 1989, Tom worked as a consultant to Smith’s Food & Drug of Salt Lake City and was responsible for identifying new opportunities for store development in major market areas of Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. During that time, he also conducted extensive studies in consumer attitudes and shopping behavior in order to refine techniques in store location research. Assignments in the Middle East in the early 1980’s led to the development of the first major Western-style supermarket in the Sultanate of Oman as well as new supermarket facilities in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
While working as a consultant with Retail Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Tom headed their Los Angeles office with primary responsibility for servicing retail and convenience-oriented clients in the western part of the United States. He has directed site location research for the northwestern division of Safeway, Inc. and has conducted market studies for all their remaining divisions. In addition to working with many major supermarket, retail, medical-related and convenience-oriented chains across the United States, Tom’s clients have included numerous real estate developers and REITs.
Tom’s more recent involvement in the location research arena has been the development of sales forecasting software for a variety of users, notably AJ’s specialty food stores of Chandler, Arizona, Chevron Products Inc. of San Ramon, California and San Francisco Honda. Tom’s model building expertise coupled with his hands-on location research background brings an unique combination of research capabilities to his clients.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Psychology from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.