Focus on Retail provides a unique and fully integrated approach to retail
for Retailers, Landlords and Commercial Property Owners.

About Us

Robyn Burns is the Director of Focus on Retail Ltd and has over 10 years experience in retail and property management.

She has held senior Marketing and Centre Management roles at two of Auckland’s most successful shopping centres, Botany Town Centre and LynnMall Shopping Centre, and has been involved in a variety of projects including:

Numerous store fitouts and streetscape designs
Foodcourt and shopping centre upgrades
Customer service reviews and restructures
Property development and public consultation
Consumer research
Lease negotiations
Casual leasing strategy
Development and implementation of highly successful retail marketing and communication initiatives

Initially trained as a physiotherapist, Robyn’s passion for retail started at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare marketing health-related products through pharmacies and health professionals both in NZ and overseas.

In her spare time, she designed, patented, manufactured and distributed the Zoo Pillow Breastfeeding Cushion through numerous baby stores, Parent Centres and hospitals in NZ prior to selling the business to a delighted customer!

Robyn completed a Graduate Diploma in Business – Marketing at Auckland University in 2002. She is also a licensed Commercial Sales Consultant with Property Brokers Ltd in Hawke's Bay.

Since moving to Hawke’s Bay with her family in 2007, Robyn has worked with a number of local and external clients including:

Property Brokers Ltd Hawke's Bay view website
Hastings Isite
The Dome Luxury Apartments, Napier View website
Nurve Digital Agency view website
Centre Manager, The Plaza, Hastings (on behalf of Colliers Property Management)
Hunters Plaza, Papatoetoe, Auckland
Visique Shatky on Russell
Wine Country Tourism Association - Hawke's Bay
Venture Hawkes Bay, Tourism Project - Hawke's Bay
HER Business Taupo
National Aquarium on NZ, Hastings
The Front Store, ANDAR Holdings, Timaru
Telegraph Hill Olivery
Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce
Taradaleonline & The Busy Corner view website
Greenmeadows New World, Napier
Hastings Business Association view website
HBS Bank Hastings City Business Awards (Judge 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 (Judge and category sponsor)