Nigel Cope

Nigel Cope is a former national newspaper business journalist and corporate communications professional with more than thirty years’ experience in telling companies’ stories.

He worked at The Independent for ten years from 1993, covering business news, latterly as City editor. He then spent nearly twenty years at Kingfisher plc, the retail group which includes B&Q, as head of media relations.

He is previously the author of Retail in the Digital Age (1996), an analysis of the impact of the internet on retailing. It was one of the first UK books on the subject.