About us

Jean du Rand, Director and Owner

Jean has worked in Retail, Wholesale and FMCG for the past 23 years. In this time he has held senior positions in Merchandise, Projects and HR and more recently has consulted to companies in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the USA.

His areas of expertise are best described by his accomplishments of the last 10 years. These include the initiation and set up of Africa's first ever B.Comm. Retail degree, the successful completion of numerous Merchandise related projects for retailers and wholesalers, the design and delivery of numerous selling, buying and trading related educational courses for the value chain, and the regular requests for his consultancy both sides of the Tasman. Jean has also worked extensively with organisations to strategically redesign their product divisions to deliver against changing customer expectations. To this end he has designed, built and utilised his own change management toolkit specific to the Retail and Wholesale industry as well as their Manufacturers.

More recent projects have included the design, development and implementation of Buying Schools for retailers in NZ, product launches in the supermarket channel and the development and use of Management Assessment centres for local retail and manufacturing companies.

JSDC has a number of affiliates in New Zealand and Australia who are utilised in our projects based on their own areas of expertise. Our staff have long backgrounds in business - retail and manufacturing - and so are able to relate directly to our customers needs.

JSDC works out of New Zealand where they are continuing to build on this service range.