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Consulting
Strategic advice, business thinking and hands-on direction for hospitality and lifestyle businesses seeking clarity, growth or reinvention.
01 — About
We turn ideas into places, brands and experiences.
FORMA & CO brings together hospitality experience, commercial thinking and creative direction to help ambitious people build something with character.
From restaurants and bars to boutique hotels, members’ clubs and new lifestyle ventures, we work across strategy, concept, development and execution.
02 — What We Do
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Hospitality
Concept positioning, operations, food & beverage, service, wine, brand experience and the details that make a venue feel distinctive.
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Concept Development
Taking an idea from a blank page to a compelling, commercially viable concept with a clear identity and reason to exist.
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New Ventures
Boutique hotels, members’ clubs, bars, restaurants, retail and other contemporary lifestyle projects developed with a strong point of view.
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Online & Brand
Digital commerce, brand extensions and online ventures that connect hospitality thinking with new audiences and revenue opportunities.
The philosophy
Good businesses are built on good ideas. Great ones are built on how those ideas make people feel.
Shape · Inspire · Transform
03 — Selected Work
Concepts in motion.
A growing portfolio of hospitality, lifestyle and entrepreneurial projects — each with its own story, audience and commercial opportunity.
Hospitality
Restaurants & Bars
From identity and positioning to menus, service and opening strategy.
Lifestyle
Members’ Clubs
Spaces and platforms designed around belonging, culture and experience.
Development
Boutique Hotels
Character-led stays that connect place, hospitality and contemporary living.
Ventures
New Ideas
Exploring new commercial models where hospitality meets retail, media and lifestyle.
04 — Speaking
Experience is worth sharing.
Motivational talks drawn from decades in hospitality, entrepreneurship, leadership and the reality of building businesses from the ground up.
“The most interesting businesses are the ones brave enough to have a point of view.”
05 — Start a conversation
Let’s make
something matter.
For consulting, concept development, collaborations, speaking engagements or new ventures.
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