MEET OUR PARTNERS

GfK

For over 85 years, we have earned the trust of our clients around the world by supporting them in business-critical decision-making processes around consumers, markets, brands, and media. Our reliable data and insights, together with advanced AI capabilities, have revolutionized access to real-time, actionable recommendations that drive marketing, sales and organizational effectiveness of our clients and partners. That’s how we promise and deliver Growth from Knowledge.

Lightspeed

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed’s one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries

Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, go to the Vertiv webiste.

Irwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell is one of the UK’s largest full-service legal and financial advisory firms.

From SMEs to FTSE listed brands, we support businesses across the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors.

This experience means that we get it – we know that leading a business has always been a challenging responsibility. Today, with a generation of highly proactive stakeholders, more stringent ESG requirements and the rapid pace of technological and social change, it’s more demanding than ever before.

Our team is ready to help. We can advise on the full spectrum of commercial and corporate law as well as in areas such as diversity and inclusion, employment and immigration, licensing and regulation, real estate and planning, restructuring and cyber security. With a strong international focus, we are particularly well placed to support businesses looking to enter the UK market for the first time.

Whether you’re navigating the challenges of ESG, dealing with the impact of GDPR or looking at ways to protect your IP, we have the right blend of experience and expertise to get the job done. Irwin Mitchell is the legal partner to the retail industry.

CONCENTRIX + Webhelp

We’re a leading global provider of customer experience (CX) solutions and technology. We create game-changing customer journeys for some of the world’s best brands, and the ones that are changing the world as we know it.

Every day, we Design, Build and Run CX that helps retail brands grow across the world and into the future. Whether it’s a specific solution or the whole end-to-end journey — we’ve got it covered. We’re the strategic thinkers who design brand-defining experiences. The tech geeks who build smarter solutions. And the operational experts who run it all and make it work seamlessly.

Across 70+ countries and six continents, we provide services across key industry verticals including technology & consumer electronics; retail, travel & ecommerce; banking, financial services & insurance; healthcare; communications & media; automotive; and energy & public sector.

Within the UK we work with a whole host of leading retail brands across a range of sub sectors, including grocery, fashion, home & DIY, electricals, consumer goods and sports & leisure.

Exponential-e

In the new era of smart shopping, with both online and in-person shopping utilising customer data to drive truly bespoke experiences, a new breed of technology infrastructure is required. Exponential-e is a trusted technology partner for numerous retailers who are embracing this digital journey, delivering bespoke, fully integrated solutions that encompass connectivity, Cloud, unified communications, and cyber security – all powered by our self-owned, enterprise-class network. From flagship stores to pop-ups and warehouses, we provide retailers with the means to grow their brands and transform one-off visitors into loyal, repeat customers, with leading edge cyber security ecosystems ensuring customer data remains 100% secure.

We are just as committed to exceptional service quality as the retailers we work with, placing the customer experience at the centre of every project. This is reflected in our nine ISO accreditations and industry-leading NPS score – updated live on our website.