Exhibitors
Creation
Creation is a leading provider of innovative credit and customer programmes, operating credit facilities for over 230 nationally recognised UK business partners.
Creation has over 4 million cardholders on its database who are affiliated to the unique DUET network, Creation's store card network brand that encompasses around 9,000 stores in the UK. It also operates extensive MasterCard credit facilities.
In addition, Creation offers a comprehensive portfolio of point of sale products, including Interest Free credit , Interest Bearing, Deferred Payment Options and Payment Protection Insurance.
Its clients come from a variety of industry sectors, predominantly retail with famous names including adams kids, JJB Sports and Land of Leather; but also football – Everton, West Bromwich Albion and Sheffield Wednesday; charity and entertainment
Creation is the UK subsidiary of French based LASER Group, one of Europe's largest loyalty and affinity companies specialising in customer relationship management and customer database enhancement.
Part of the Galeries Lafayette and BNP Paribas groups, LASER has been at the heart of retail, spending and financial services for the last 30 years.
SiteMorse
SiteMorse offers a range of website testing services that require no setup, downloads or technical support to operate.
SiteMorse measures performance, tests functions and checks compliance (HTML/eGMS/Accessibility).
- Website monitoring - individual pages every few minutes,
includes R25 reporting - Thorough website checking - testing from a few pages to a
complete site - Website user experience - load and stress and user journey testing
We provide an Executive Summary and a detailed Technical Report identifying problems by exact type, page, line, etc to facilitate immediate cost effective corrective action.
Fresca
Established in 2000, Fresca is one of the UK’s most successful specialist e-commerce service providers. We are passionate about delivering stunning and successful e-commerce websites and have supplied multi-channel solutions to many top retailers.
Our on-demand e-commerce service, branded Fresca Commerce, powers some of the fastest-growing international web-stores including: Principles, Warehouse, Oasis, The Shoe Studio, Jimmy Choo, Coast, Countrywide Farmers, 20Ltd and Harvey Nichols.
Fresca Commerce offers complete web-store flexibility. Multi-channel support is built-in, as are back-office systems for customer ordering, call centre and fulfilment functionality. The platform is feature rich and covers all key retail functions, including campaign and promotion management, catalogue management, trading analysis, a highly developed content management system for non-catalogue content; it integrates out-of-the box with leading web analytics and email campaigning software, with API’s for interfacing with merchant systems.
Provided under a 99.9% availability SLA as a fully managed service Fresca Commerce helps our clients increase their multi-channel sales, reduce costs and improve ROI. Pricing is straightforward; there are no upfront development costs - this is ‘Software-as-a-Service’ (SaaS). We host, manage and support e-commerce websites with hardware, software and infrastructure costs built into affordable monthly service fees.
Maginus
Maginus provides advanced e-commerce solutions that help retailers sell more online, and complete back office systems that provide seamless control over multi-channel sales, logistics and fulfillment.
Maginus Storefront is the intelligent solution for online retail. It combines powerful e-commerce functionality with the ability to customise almost every aspect of your online presence. Maginus Storefront lets you manage any number of brands, products or online shops in one solution. You can customise the look, feel and functionality of your website using powerful skinning capabilities and simple web-based tools. Extensive online marketing features help drive traffic to your site, while unique intelligence capabilities enable you to link online marketing activities and web analytics with sales revenue and margins.
Maginus Storefront is a standalone system that can also be integrated with Maginus 7xa (or other back office systems) to create a complete front office and back office solution for online retail.
Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro Inc. is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution. www.ingrammicro.co.uk.
Google Checkout
Sell more & spend less with Google Checkout.
Offer customers a faster online checkout process; when you accept Checkout your customers can buy from you, and anywhere online where they see the Google Checkout button, with just one log-in, with shopping this easy visitors are more likely to convert into customers.
Merchants who process sales through Google Checkout can do so for free in 2007, and from 2008 AdWords advertisers will be able to process 10 x their monthly AdWords spend for free each month, transactions on top of this and for non-AdWords customers are charged at a low rate of 1.5% + 15p per transaction.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
UK Retail & Consumer group has more than 1,000 people working with all types and size of retail and consumer goods companies - multinationals, UK companies, privately-owned organisations, family businesses - as well as entrepreneurs and private individuals.
The group provides industry focused assurance, tax and advisory services to over 75 of the top 100 retailers in the UK1. and 80% of consumer goods companies2 in the FTSE All Share.
We have specialist teams and individuals within our service lines, working exclusively with retail and consumer goods organisations.
1 Top 100 UK retailers from the Retail Week 500 (2004)
2 FT classifications - Beverages; Food Producers; Household Goods;Personal Goods; Leisure Goods; Tobacco
Broadvision
Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision is a global provider of e-business solutions. Our modular applications and agile toolsets, built on a robust framework for personalization and self-service, power mission-critical web initiatives that deliver unparalleled value to diverse customers worldwide. Hundreds of organizations, serving over 50 million registered users - including ARCO, ASDA, Baker Hughes, Cardinal Health, Citibank, Dixons, Hilti, Japan Airlines, Renault, RS Components, Sears, Sony, Vodafone, The U.S. Air Force, Yomiuri Shinbun and Xerox - rely on BroadVision as their platform of choice for e-business.
Vox Pops International
Gaining true insight is dependent on accurate research and it’s why so many companies are turning to video to genuinely connect with their consumers.
Established in 1987 Vox Pops International have produced over 4000 research videos for hundreds of blue chip companies that demand much more than one dimensional research data. Our clients include Ebay, Boots, Asda, Sainsburys, Comet, Debenhams and WHSmith and we have a dedicated in-house research and production team. Our services include accompanied shops, exit interviews, observational and secret filming, video diaries and portraits, segmentation studies, accompanied surfs and web cam research.
As well as specialising in video-based research, we also work exclusively with The Retail Bulletin providing online video content showing consumer views on the issues that matter most in retail.
To see how video research can help you get closer to your consumer and to receive a free retail research video visit www.voxpops.com
Eversheds LLP
Eversheds LLP work with many leading retailers in helping them develop, promote and protect their brand. We have an international reputation in the field of internet branding and work with retailers on a full range of branding issues, from portfolio management through to advice on registerability of potential marks and domain name issues. We understand the retail environment and, in particular, the need to provide clear, fast and cost effective advice which leverages off the experience we have gained from working with a wide variety of retailers.
In addition to our branding work we also advise retailers on issues such as trademark infringements and design rights. Moreover, our marketing law team can also help you to establish effective agreements with media agencies and has broad experience in advising on new campaigns, endorsements and protection of new concepts.
Ranked in the top tier of retail practices by Chambers, an independent guide to law firms, we help our clients to protect and develop their business, taking into account the very specific issues created by trading online.
GfK Retail and Technology
GfK Retail and Technology is the Number 1 market research company worldwide tracking consumer durable goods. GfK Retail and Technology is part of the GfK Group which has over 130 subsidiaries, located in more than 70 countries worldwide with approximately 7,900 employees.
GfK Retail and Technology division’s long standing cooperation with leading retailers, resellers and distributors, ensures access to essential market information. Through our monthly and weekly POS panels, decision–makers in all sectors of trade and industry use our data and services for:
- Category management
- Product development
- Channel strategy management
- Pricing strategy
- Marketing
- Maximising stock efficiency
In an increasingly complex and competitive trading environment, complete understanding of the market creates a sound platform for decision making. GfK seeks to ensure client satisfaction with the quality of the information and service supplied.