Hands-on business

When thebusiness hasto move.

When thebusinesshas tomove.

Turnaround. Transformation. Interim leadership.Retail expertise, with deep GCC experience.

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01/The starting point

What brought
you here?

Business does not arrive in neatly named service categories. It arrives with a problem that needs to move.

When the numbers turn, the answer is rarely another deck. Get close to the business, find the real blockage and act on it.

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02 / The person behind HB Gulf

You hire
 PETER.

Not a consulting company that assigns you someone. Peter Heijsteeg. Directly.

25+ years of senior business experience. P&L responsibility. Turnarounds, transformation and international leadership. Retail first, with experience that travels beyond it.

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03 / How Peter sees a business

A turnaround rarely starts where the symptoms appear.

Follow the connection between commercial performance, customers and people. Find what is actually stopping execution.

See where value is created — and where it is leaking.

Find out whether the proposition still matters.

Make the organisation able to deliver what the strategy promises.

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04 / Selected experience

Advice from someone who has run the business.

Retail operations/
Turnarounds/
International brands/
Commercial transformation/
Interim leadership/
GCC markets/

05 / Regional edge

Global
experience.
GCC reality.

The GCC isn't another sales territory. Winning here means understanding the commercial structures, the consumers, the partners and the people on the ground.

Peter brings international experience and deep experience across the region — not a copy-paste European playbook.

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07 / Point of view

STRATEGY IS EASY FROM 
THE OUTSIDE.

I don't believe in

Strategy decks nobody can execute. AI because everybody else is doing AI. Technology without a business problem.

I do believe in

Getting close to the business. Looking at the numbers. Talking to the people. Finding the blockage. Fixing it. Moving.

08 / Start the conversation

What's keeping you awake?

Tell Peter what is going on. No pitch deck needed.

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