Exhibitors
RetailChoice.com
RetailChoice.com offers a unique service aimed at cost-effectively solving the recruitment needs of retail employers. Our strategy is based on the building of strong relationships through the understanding of the challenges faced by our clients and the promotion of best practice for acquisition and retention of talent.
Given the dynamism of our sector, opportunities for HR policy makers to meet and share ideas are few and far between. The HR Summit is designed to fill this gap, and give participants access to valuable content in a dedicated environment.
As part of our commitment to the retail industry, RetailChoice.com is delighted to sponsor the Retail Bulletin HR Summit. We hope it will provide you with a clear opportunity to learn and network and, if you are also attending the People in Retail Awards ceremony in the evening, to find out what brands in the retail industry are getting their people policies right and why.
RetailChoice.com is the UK’s leading retail recruitment job board. Only retail vacancies are advertised on the site making us specialists in the field and helping us to attract candidates with relevant industry experience. The site is visited by over 250,000 retail professionals and generates over 245,000 job applications per month. For more information on how we can help you with those hard-to-fill retail vacancies – for both in-store and head office positions - visit www.retailchoice.com or call 020 7572 4284 to speak to one of our dedicated Account Managers.
Changeworknow
Changeworknow is one of the UK’s leading providers of on-line resourcing solutions to the retail, leisure and hospitality sector. Since 2000 we have been successfully implementing e-recruitment and talent management systems that have produced significant return on investments for all our clients. Companies such as Sainsbury’s, Woolworths, Curry’s, J D Wetherspoon, HMV and P C World are all using our unique and tailored approach to recruitment. From managers through to colleague level, from head office roles to specialist roles such as pharmacists our clients are achieving enviable results through using our systems and processes.
With in depth experience of recruitment and selection system designs we ensure that client’s e-resourcing strategies are implemented effectively and that the change is sustained on a long term basis. Identifying the key success measures up front we work in close partnership with our client’s to implement a fully customised solution that meets the specific needs of the business.
Changework Now Ltd, Girdler House, Quebec Road,Henley-on-Thames RG9 1EY Tel: 01491 410681
Brooklands Executives
Brooklands Executives is a specialist Retail sector Executive Search and Interim Management provider. We share a passion for achieving and celebrating excellence, and of delivering and supporting the very best talent in the Retail sector.
We offer a refreshing change to the industry approach to talent management. Working at senior level we provide a multidimensional resourcing capability, operating in the UK and internationally. We listen to your needs and ensure that we understand your challenges, thereby taking an integrated approach to campaign delivery.
As the chosen provider of Interim Executives to many of the UK’s top retailers, specifically in the areas of shared service operations, commercial and general management, we can parachute the right talent into your organisation fast. And in retail, speed matched with quality are cornerstones of success.
Our specialist Retail Consultancy team is part of your competitive advantage. We want you to experience the Brooklands “WOW” factor. Find our more at www.brooklandsexecutives.com.
Eversheds
With the ever changing challenges facing the sector, retailers need skilled advisers with a high degree of sector-specific knowledge to help them turn threats into opportunities, to reduce the risks involved in operating in this fast changing sector and to ensure they can evolve strategies for success.
We are a top ranked firm for the Retail Sector in Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession, and have more than 60 lawyers with genuine retail expertise. Through our network of UK and overseas offices, we offer sector specific advice on the options for expansion, whether through acquisition, own stores, concessions, franchising or other routes to market. We guide retailers through the maze of other issues requiring consideration, such as the regulatory environment, advertising and promotions, branding and competition. And we provide sector specific advice to retailers in fields as diverse as employers’ and public liability, real estate portfolio management, product liability and dispute management
To find out how we can help your business, visit our website for further information on our retail expertise and services.
www.eversheds.com/retail
Workforce Management - the vital link between HR and Retail Operations
WorkPlace Systems is the leading supplier of Retail Workforce Management software and consulting solutions which benefit all retail functions and significantly increase store performance. Software modules include Forecasting, Scheduling, T&A and Task Management; as well as labour Standards development to improve customer service levels, increases staff retention and reduces labour costs.
Workforce Management provides the vital link between HR and Retail Operations to provide store managers with accurate schedules and to guide HR on resource, recruitment and training plans, contracts of employment and the daily hours of work. Without such a link there is a risk that the HR function can meet its goals in recruitment, training and retention, whilst still missing the Retailer’s overall objective of meeting sales growth in the most cost effective way.
WorkPlace has implemented its solution in both medium sized as well as scaling up to some of the largest and most complex retail organisations, including: Argos, Focus DIY, Next, Metro Cash and Carry, H&M, Travelex, Wickes, Travis Perkins, The Nuance Group, Woolworths SA, W H Smith, World Duty Free.
Head Office: WorkPlace Systems plc, Precedent Drive, Rooksley, Milton Keynes, MK13 8PP. Tel: +44 (0) 1908 242 042
Prolog Print Media
At Prolog Print Media we help retail HR professionals improve retention and performance through effective employee communications. Working with some of the UK’s leading retailers we have developed innovative and effective ways to educate, inform and motivate employees. We do this by combining existing documents such as payslips, pension statements and rewards information with personalised employee messages. The result; documents printed or presented online by Prolog Print Media, which allow HR to communicate to all employees at the same time without the need for additional resources.
Work with Prolog Print Media to improve performance and retention:
- Keeping you in touch – Adding personalised messages and incentives to payslips to inform and motive employees.
- Spelling out the benefits – Combining data such as payroll, pensions, healthcare and benefits into one ‘Benefits of working for us’ document.
- Making information accessible - Presenting employee pay and rewards details online or in print to best suit the needs of the workforce.
In addition to improved employee communications we are also committed to supporting responsible retailing. By working smarter we can consolidate documents prior to printing or present them online where appropriate to reduce your environmental impact.
Call 01246 543000 or visit www.prologprintmedia.co.uk for a refreshing way to work
The Retail Bulletin
The Retail Bulletin is a retail-focused website that delivers industry news and analysis 24hrs a day, 365 days a year for the UK’s leading retail professionals. It has more than 20,000 registered users and more than 100,000 unique visitors visit the website each month. Most of our registered database consists of senior managers and directors based at the head offices of major retail chains. Over 1,000,000 pages are opened on the website every month.
theretailbulletin.com has become essential reading for thousands of retail professionals, and with an archive section containing more than 10,000 news items, it is an invaluable information, research and reference tool.
The website also has a dedicated jobs section, in association with Retail Choice.com which regularly carries more than 10,000 retail jobs.
To receive our regular news alerts and have full access to the whole website, please register for FREE at: www.theretailbulletin.com
The Retail Bulletin, Regent House, 1 – 3 Queensway, Redhill RH1 1QT. Tel: 01883 621150