Pictured above: Karl McKeever

Retail consultant Karl McKeever is to make his second major TV appearance of 2010, this time helping out on Feargal Quinn's Retail Therapy, a six-part series on RTÉ1 designed to offer business development advice to a variety of established independent Irish retailers.

Karl features in episode six of the famous Irish retail maestro's show. He joins Feargal to help the popular Dublin supermarket JC's to improve its customer experience and retail presentation to fight off the might of Tesco Ireland and German discounters Aldi and Lidl. 

One of Europe's most eminent authorities on retail brand delivery and the founder of leading retail consultancy Visual Thinking, Karl was approached to take part in the show by RTÉ TV producers from working with Irish retail trade organisation - Retail Excellence Ireland. Karl is also a frequent retail business contributor in the Irish national media. 

Feargal Quinn is one of Ireland's most renowned businessmen, who started in a small shop in Dundalk in 1960 and went on to create the Superquinn empire which, over a period of 45 years, grew to 21 shops and 5,000 employees. The Quinn family sold out of the business in 2005 in a deal worth €420m.

Karl's episode will air on 13 April 2010 at 8:30pm on RTÉ1, which transmits globally on cable and satellite. The programme can also be viewed on RTÉ's website www.rte.ie/player after 13 April.