The phrase "a former retailing" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a former retailer" or "former retail" depending on the context.
Example: "She worked as a former retailer before starting her own business."
Alternatives: "a previous retailer" or "an ex-retailer."
At Smith Barney, for instance, Maura Hunter Byrne, a former retailing analyst, heads a group that sifts through the millions of messages sent out by analysts, looking for red flags.
"I feel insecure," concedes Bon, a former retailing executive who moved to France Telecom four years ago and was instrumental in successfully selling 36.4% of the outfit to the public.
A former retail strip in the middle of town became condo complexes.
Economies of scale and limited investment choice will keep down charges.The man behind NEST is Tim Jones, a former retail banker.
Elaine Zendlovitz, a former retail store manager who began teaching college courses six years ago, is representative of the change.
At Barneys, Mr. Shull, a former retail-management-firm executive, was credited with closing the worst-performing stores and improving profits.
To friends and acquaintances, von Habsburg presented himself variously as an expert in foreign-currency markets, an investment banker, a stockbroker, a former retail baron, the head of an arbitrage firm, a private-equity manager, and a real-estate developer.
One woman, a former retail worker, was using more than a dozen credit cards to buy food and pay her mortgage, playing the cards against one another to lower rates.
According to Marshal Cohen, a former retail executive who is now an analyst at the market-research group NPD, "There is money in it, and there is big, healthy money".
"Today, information flows so fast that there is no need to wait for pronouncements from fashion directors," observed Ed Burstell, a former retail executive in New York, and now the buying director for Liberty of London.
