Exhibitors
TANDBERG
By its very nature, videoconferencing is a ”green” technology with a wide range of benefits for organisations within the retail sector, individual employees and the community at large.
Video can be an essential tool for developing an integrated environmental program which helps deliver:
- Improved employee satisfaction
- Reduced operational costs
- Increased productivity
- Accelerating decision making
- Closer collaboration with supply chain.
TANDBERG is committed to being an environmental leader and embracing technologies that help companies, individuals and communities creatively address environmental challenges.
TANDBERG makes business quality visual communications accessible to everyone allowing high value face-to-face real time interactions. We deliver proven and robust communications solutions that offer customers the best overall collaborative experience through a focus on simplicity, quality, and value.
Envirowise
Envirowise has now been targeting the Retail and Commerce sector for over five years, since 1994, Envirowise has helped UK industry saved over £1million.
Envirowise enables companies to: understand where they are environmentally; determine their priorities for action; and to make realistic change.
Envirowise is well positioned to provide the free of charge practical guidance that companies need to deliver on their environmental objectives and CSR policies.
Advice is tailored to the specific needs of individual companies and organisations. Our services include:
- Envirowise Helpline 0800 585 794
- www.envirowise.gov.uk - with designated pages for the retail sector
- Publications that provide up-to-date information on waste, water and energy minimisation issues, methods and successes
- On-site resource efficiency reviews from Envirowise advisors - FastTrack & DesignTrack visits - that help businesses identify and realise savings.
- Best practice seminars and practical workshops on resource efficiency issues
Canon
At Canon, we practice what we preach and have one of the most environmentally-friendly buildings in the UK. We also work closely with our customers to help them to not only reduce office waste but also their business costs. Working with Canon can help retailers to:
Reduce energy consumption: the latest generation of products use up to 95% less energy in stand by mode than previous products
Reduce waste: redesigning processes and work practices to significantly reduce print volumes and wastage
Support ISO14001 compliance: we help companies implement new ways of working to support their achievement of this international standard
Gain control of their print strategy: implementing software to ensure efficient use of resources and provide detailed management information across the whole company
Did you know? When you purchase Canon-branded media, we guarantee the 'paper trail' and sustainability of supply for the product.
Did you know? Canon is involved in an industry first pilot scheme to recycle toner bottles and reduce the UK landfill burden
By sharing our expertise and heritage in reducing the environmental impact of business processes we uphold our corporate philosophy of Kyosei – "living and working together for the common good".
David A Smith (Marketing Director) states: "It is the responsibility of manufacturers such as Canon to provide the solutions to support a greener workplace in addition to offering simple advice on energy saving."
Muddy Boots Software
- If a retailer implements a ‘green’ initiative, how is its success measured?
- How can a business support its CSR statement and evidence its bold brand claims?
- Are KPI’s easily tracked and monitored, or ‘lost in translation’?
Muddy Boots Software is a leading provider of risk management, quality assurance and compliance measuring solutions for the global retail industry, with the key objective of assessing business performance and identifying risk.
Quickfire, developed by Muddy Boots, is the first audit management solution developed specifically for food and non-food retailing.
Designed for all audits types including health & safety, ethical, food safety, social accountability and environmental auditing, Quickfire can help with compliance to standards, applying best practice and benchmarking performance.
Quickfire has been developed to:
- Improve corporate governance
- Demonstrate regulatory compliance
- Verify product quality
- Safeguard public health
- Protect brand integrity
Clients include Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Unilever, National Britannia Group and Compass Group.
Pierhouse
Research by Pierhouse, a provider of marketing management services to major retailers, reveals that around 50%, and in some instances 90%, of Point of Sale (POS) material sent from head office to branches is thrown away, unused, much to the concern of staff.
Grocery retailers alone, therefore, could be wasting around 7,500 tonnes. In addition, as total UK retail annual spend on POS is £1.1bn and compliance rates are often as low as 50%, as much as £550m may be being wasted.
Pierhouse can help businesses become greener by reducing marketing wastage by 80%. It combines years of experience, working with clients such as Waitrose, with a flexible on-demand Media Management Service that can store branch specific information alongside all the elements that make up a marketing campaign (text, pictures and illustrations) in one place. This means inappropriate POS material is not even produced and what is created is accurate and compliant, so campaigns can be executed more effectively and efficiently.
Buy green, be green, sell green with Office Depot
Office Depot’s environmental programme covers all aspects of environmental performance from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain of custody certification and sourcing of forest products to implementing ISO14001 and providing customers with comprehensive reports on their environmental purchasing.
Our environmental associations include WWF UK Forest and Trade Network membership and London Remade principal sponsorship.
2006 saw the launch of a 90 page Green Book™ detailing all of our environmentally preferable products and services and their environmental benefits. Office Depot also won the Office Products International European award for Environmental Responsibility for the third year in succession.
We work proactively with our customers to help them achieve their environmental objectives, from operating in an environmentally responsible manner, to meeting specific procurement targets through the supply of products with a proven environmental pedigree.
Considering your carbon footprint?
Well consider this……
A large IT datacentre can consume as much power as a town with a population of 40,000 people. This is an incredible statistic but nonetheless emphasises the impact of IT on the environment.
Indeed many commentators have suggested that UK datacentres are facing an energy crisis. And with energy costs set to double over the next five years the bottom line won’t escape the effects.
Poor utilisation of servers – 5 to 15% a suggested average - coupled with the power needed to run and cool the machines results in over half of existing datacentres generating above average temperatures. With the additional burden of space constraint, compromise on performance is often seen as the only way to resolve the issues.
SCC in partnership with Sun Microsystems is able to deploy a number of solutions to overcome these challenges and eliminate the need for compromise. Whether it’s designing an entire technology ecosystem that uses less energy, takes up less space and actually improves on performance or helping you with more immediate problems of halting server sprawl and better managing existing assets we can help.
For more information contact us on 0845 351 1157 or visit www.scc.com.
Papier Mettler
Environmentally sound, Sustainable, Recycled……..
In response to a government initiative leading UK retailers have agreed to move towards a 25% reduction in the use of carrier bags by 2008.*
Papier Mettler* has the leading edge in an environmental aware means of carrier bag manufacture by offering a “closed loop” service which involves collecting used materials which are then processed into new carrier bags.
With our own state-of-the-art recycling and manufacturing facilities in Germany we have the capability to supply carrier bags made from 100% recycled material and degradable bags. Furthermore, all factory emissions are filtered via catalytic convertors to surpass E.U. requirements.
We have 50 years of experience supplying leading retailers such as M&S, Next, Tesco, Sainbury’s, Asda, Debenhams, Argos, BHS, and WH Smith and remain the largest manufacturer of paper and plastic carrier bags in Europe. We offer:
- Renowned expertise and consulting services
- Specialist production
- Highly organised logistics
BARLOWS FOCUSES ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Founded in 1875, today Barlows is a leading project management company specialising in the retail, leisure and hospitality industries. With a vision to ‘change the face of construction’ its customer-focused approach continually strives to provide its clients with innovative alternatives in delivering the standard refit and refurbishment programme.
With a turnover in excess of £30 million and a staff of 70 people, Barlows offers customers a conception to completion service through which it’s able to reduce the time and cost of any standard refit or fit out programme.
Already implementing ‘lean’ principles across its projects, Barlows has recognised in the last two years that there is an increasing need for alternative, sustainable materials to be incorporated into the shopfitting industry. As project managers for a number of blue chip companies, Barlows has spent a great deal time and resources researching recyclable and sustainable materials which minimise the environmental impact but don’t cost the earth.
Barlows is actively encouraging its customers to think about their environmental impact through the use of sustainable materials. To be in a position to promote this it has had to carefully consider its own impact. As a result Barlows seeks to eliminate waste, assist in the reduction and eventual elimination of harmful emissions and look at renewable energies throughout the Life Cycle Assessment process.
Barlows seeks to divert waste from landfill throughout the material life cycle by reusing and recycling, looking at cradle to grave systems and natural depletion. Barlows actively seeking to keep raw materials uncontaminated by using natural complimenting products, wherever possible to assist so they may biodegrade.
Barlows will be showcasing a sample of its sustainable materials at the conference on the 30th April. Alternatively for further information contact Sallyann Allman, 0114 280 3000 or 07778 029 441.
The Biodegradable Bag Company
We aim to be the first UK company manufacturing material that is certified biodegradable and also meets the highest European standards of compostability. We manufacture standard polythene, polypropylene, recycled material but our speciality is biodegradable and compostable, bags, sheeting and tubing.
Are you looking for a supplier that…..Manufactures a quality product in the UK?
- Has a skilled/experienced workforce + Supplies certified degradable bags
- Is Cost Effective + With competitive Pricing
- 100% biodegradable material + 100% compostable material
- UK base to base delivery + Pride in quality control
- Manufactures bespoke packaging + Able to meet tight deadlines
- Stock, Store & Deliver to your door + Extrudes & Print in-house
- Is solutions orientated. + Superb customer service
- Are biodegradable experts + Know their material
- We extrude, print, convert, in–house so there’s no reliance on 3rd parties
- Our experienced, skilled team can help design packaging so it’s cost effective
- Supplies you with the packaging of your choice (but it degrades after use)
- Manufactures all shapes and sizes of polythene/compostable bags
- Is a UK manufacturer who knows their material so bags tested to different biodegradability formulas and timeclocks
- Manufactures standard polythene, recycled polythene, biodegradable polythene, polypropylene, compostable material, plain, printed, as bags, sheets or on a roll
100% UK MANUFACTURED saving you time & making business easier: a traceable, returnable product manufactured to the highest British standards with leading edge performance and technology, there’s no issues with containers, freight, import, export , transport, currency, language issues and you help support the British economy, roads, jobs, community, skills force etc
IS THE FUTURE OF PACKAGING DEGRADABLE?
France insists all packaging must be degradable in 3 years by 2010. Bangladesh has introduced jute bags, Ireland has a bag tax .Paper bags produce more emissions than polythene and are more bulky and costly. The much maligned polythene bag is actually rather good, lightweight, flexible, waterproof, anti-static – the benefits are endless – but it’s strength – the fact that it is so tough – has become it’s weakness. With our award winning background and over 25 years in the packaging industry we are now manufacturing the biodegradable polythene bag. We also manufacture compostable material of EN13432 European standard More & More Customers are seeking out biodegradable packaging. Consumers are forcing the packaging industry to address polythene & degradability
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PACKAGING & TRADING ETHICALLY
You save waste and support biodegradable material
You save transport and support local suppliers
You save environment and support UK manufacturing
You save earth’s resources and support sustainable futures.
THE BIODEGRADABLE BAG COMPANY LTD - INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS 2007
& BARCLAYS OVERALL BUSINESS WINNERS 2007
UKN group
A staggering 33% of the capital’s emissions are down to London’s employers, in both the commercial and public sectors.
(Mayor of London’s Climate Change Action Plan, February 2007)
Flexible, Secure, Energy Efficient……… Are these the sort of words you could use to describe IT in your company?
Organisations have to run greener, leaner and with an eye on the ever changing energy, waste and transport requirements of the workforce. How can an organisation stand out as economically, socially and environmentally responsible?
UKN Group is the UK's first and foremost authority for delivering solutions based on Sun Microsystem's ultra-slim, ultra-efficient Sun Ray desktop technology.
With up to 95% reductions in energy usage, a fraction of the recycling and a functional life span several times that of a PC, they are the common sense solution for companies who want to make sure their environmental impact is minimised.
UKN group are helping some of the biggest names in the public and private sectors achieve new levels of sustainable development and flexibility with their approach to delivering this technology.
Offering a one stop shop to help companies implement Sun Ray solutions or as a utility based managed service, encompassing installation, support and maintenance; UKN are the only sensible first choice.
Our experts will be on hand throughout the day to offer straight-forward advice and live demonstrations so we hope you will find time to join us.
For more information contact us on 0207 2690251 or sales@ukngroup.com
G10
G10 and its partners provide state of the art security and surveillance solutions. G10 have designed the next generation in surveillance solutions for the 21st century. G10 specialise in the design, deployment and implementation of bespoke tailored security solutions Our “Gi” software offers a truly scalable platform, which has been ported on to the world renowned, Solaris 10 Operating system. We are the only company in the world who operate on Solaris 10. The management functions of the solution offer the answers that the demanding security environment require; such as scalable platforms for the creation, storage, search, retrieval and distribution of digital data and video. Within the “Gi” software package there are a number of analytical features that can be added prior or post to any deployment of our system. G10 can truly offer something that no other company can in the market place today and that is, a complete surveillance package built on the best of breed components available.
Wipro Technologies
Wipro (NYSE:WIT) is a $3.2bn global provider of IT Services, Outsourced R&D, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Services, and Business Consulting. Wipro is the first to perfect a unique quality methodology, the /Wipro Way/ – a combination of Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and CMM (Wipro is the world’s first PCMM and CMMi level company) - to provide unmatched business value and predictability to our clients.
Our 3000+ strong Retail, CPG and Distribution practice partners with leading retailers globally to provide business-led IT solutions to them. We work closely with leading industry bodies like *EPCGlobal, SCOR, UCCNet* and *ARTS* and are supported by domain experts in our *Centers of Excellence* in the fields of Supply Chain Management, Analytics, RFID, Pharmacy, In-Store Solutions and Merchandizing & Pricing. We also continuously develop technology solutions around retailing concepts such as ESL (Electronic Shelf Labels), Guided Hand Held Devices, Kiosks, Digital Signage, RFID, etc. and test its implementation in an integrated environment at our state-of-the-art Concept Store within our campus.
In continuing pursuit of excelling in providing IT and IT related services to our Retail partners, especially in Europe, Wipro has made a significant acquisition of a Europe based retail solutions provider, Enabler. Enabler is one of the leading specialists in consulting and implementation of integrated solutions and effective support of retail systems, especially in Oracle Retail implementations for a diverse set of Retail formats (Food, Fashion, DIY) covering most of the Oracle Retail modules.
Centre for Environment and Safety Management for Business (CESMB)
Certificate in Recycling for Sustainability
EU Legislation is increasing and tightening practices across Waste Management. It’s now estimated that business waste makes up 4% of turnover, solely down to poor waste management. This combination is causing waste disposal costs to rise rapidly.
CESMB is offering an industry led training programme designed for businesses wishing to develop a more sustainable waste management strategy. The training is primarily carried out through the workplace. It leads to a nationally recognised certificate in Recycling for Sustainability, worth 60 credits at postgraduate level from Middlesex University.
The programme provides learning materials, briefing sessions, plus one to one email/phone support. It is free for businesses within the London Boroughs, through LDA funding.
To find out more visit www.wastematters.uk.com
Or contact
Ginika Osuno
Centre for Environment and Safety Management for Business (CESMB), Middlesex University.
Telephone: 020 8411 6730
Email: G.Osuno@mdx.ac.uk