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Platinum
Interac Corp. is a payments and digital information exchange that operates an economical, world-class debit payments system with broad-based acceptance, reliability, security and efficiency. The organization is one of Canada’s leading and most trusted financial brands and is chosen an average of 16 million times daily to pay and exchange money. For 35 years, Interac Corp. and its predecessors, Interac Association and Acxsys Corporation, has provided payment solutions and access to money on secure, interoperable, reliable and efficient shared platforms through debit cards, mobile wallets, online money transfer, ABMs, in-app and online purchases. Interac Corp. has a diverse group of shareholders that include banks, credit unions, caisses populaires, payment processors and merchants. A leader in the prevention and detection of fraud, the organization has one of the lowest rates of fraud globally. Visit newsroom.interac.ca or follow @INTERAC on Twitter.
Gold
AIR MILES® Reward Program
351 King St E suite 200, Toronto, ON M5A 0L6
The AIR MILES Reward Program is Canada’s most recognized loyalty program, with nearly 11 million active Collector Accounts, representing approximately two-thirds of all Canadian households.
AIR MILES Collectors get Miles at more than 200 leading brand name Partners across the country at thousands of retail and service locations and online. It is the only loyalty program of its kind to give Collectors the flexibility and choice to use Miles on aspirational Rewards, such as Merchandise, Travel, Events or Attractions, or instantly, in-store or online, through AIR MILES Cash at participating Partner locations.
The AIR MILES Perks feature also gives Collectors the opportunity to get discounts and perks on exciting activities, which include Dining, Shopping, Travel, Entertainment, Leisure and Sports, just for having an AIR MILES Card.
Silver
The AdMill Group
42 Dufflaw Road
Toronto, ON M2A 2W1
T: (416) 789-0789 F: (416) 789-7162
Contact: Arthur Winiarczyk, Vice President, Sales
AdMill Distribution, provides premium delivery services to households within Toronto, Ottawa and all surrounding urban and rural areas, utilizing both our Private Carrier System and Canada Post. Delivery modes include the AdMill Bag, Door Hangers, Samples and Stand Alone delivery.
AdMill Packaging & Bindery services are provided from two locations. Our newly acquired Tip Top facility provides an array of bindery services including saddle-stitching, folding, tipping, post-it notes and many other specialty services. From this facility we also provide addressed mailing and inkjetting. Our AdMill Etobicoke location offers high speed mechanical and specialty manual product folding, poly-bagging, inserting and Canada Post fulfilment. Our dedicated and professional staff will ensure a streamlined, cost effective solution for all your bindery, packaging and distribution needs. As your true and valued business partner our mission is to deliver your advertising or publishing project on time, on target and on budget.
Visual Communication Specialist Focusing On Large Format Printing. Shop Online. Established In 2007. Advanced Technologies. Quality Product. Types: Custom Fabric Prints, Vinyl Graphics, Rigid Signage.
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Join Snappay from 4:10-4:15pm at #Remark19 for their Fast5 Presentation:
IS ALIPAY & WECHAT HYPE OR REALITY?
Find out why Alipay and WeChat are important new North American mobile marketing platforms to grow your brand in the Chinese community and drive significant incremental sales.
About SnapPay Founded outside Toronto, Canada in 2017, SnapPay provides a payment gateway that allows North American merchants to accept digital payments from Chinese Alipay and WeChat Pay users. SnapPay provides comprehensive direct to consumer marketing channels for its clients, and is committed to establishing a reliable platform to connect Canadian and American merchants with the large buying power of consumers. SnapPay enables merchants and brands, of all sizes, tap into the Chinese consumer market in the sectors of Tourism, Education, Food & Restaurants and Retail throughout North America.
Bronze
CCAB BPA Worldwide
111 Queen St E #450
Toronto, ON M5C 1S2
T: 647-256-3575
Contact: Tim Peel, Vice President. Phone: 647-256-3575. Email: mpeel@bpaww.com.
CCAB is a not-for-profit, self-regulating organization governed by a tri-partite Board of Directors comprised of advertisers, agencies and media owners. With two fully staffed offices in Montreal and Toronto, CCAB is the leading provider of independent media audits of Daily and Community Newspaper brands, Business and Consumer magazine brands, Flyer Distribution Standards (FDS) Accreditations, Websites and other media channels. The latest innovation to move the industry forward is the BPA Media Exchange, an online private marketplace for automated sales of independently verified media and related digital marketing products. Visit bpaww.com to learn more about CCAB, Division of BPA Worldwide, and gain access to the latest reports.
Geomedia Inc.
21 St. Clair Ave. East, Suite 1400
Toronto, ON M4T 1L9
T: (416) 203-7747 (888) 359-3778
Contact: Darrell Cook
T 416 203 7747 EXT.242
Email: darrell.cook@geomedia.ca
Geomedia - Canada’s Leader in GeoMarketing
Geomedia is Canada’s leading marketing technology company, specializing in geo-targeted consumer analytics and advertising media planning. Advertisers want to maximize their media investments by targeting the right customers, at the right time, with the right media. Geomedia uses analytics and data science to deliver those results. We combine our proprietary tools, software and analytic expertise to make geo-targeted marketing work for Canadian retailers. Our team of mathematicians, AI experts and GIS analysts combine machine learning neural networks with consumer geodemographic analysis to predict consumer behaviour for optimizing advertising effectiveness. We build insights from online data, customer point-of-sale data, demographic, Mobile ID and media response data. Our analytics work is the foundation of our targeted media execution.
Our Geo-targeted digital advertising service leverages the analytics and includes ad-production, execution and granular measurement. Our software and systems for managing retail print programs are unparalleled. We maximize the ROI on every advertising dollar our clients spend.
Raange
6500 Trans-Canadian Highway
Suite 400, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, H9R 0A5
Tel #: 844.4.RAANGE (622643)
Contact: Matthew Seniuk
- Digital Retail Automation
- Fuel Brick-and-Mortar, e-Commerce and m-Commerce Growth
- Drive Traffic and Sales to Physical and Digital Stores
Reshift Media
400-49 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2J1
Tel #: 416-616-3046
Contact: Kirk Allen
Major takeaways from our lively and interactive session include:
• A thorough understanding of how the Facebook algorithm works
• Learnings from our experience working with hundreds of brands across 20 countries
• Specific social media strategies your company can implement to drive real-world sales
RMS
200-381 Richmond St. East
Toronto, ON
M5A 1P6
Contact - Sam Vise at sam@rmsretail.com or 416-418-7110
Retail Management Software (RMS) and the innovative team behind it are dedicated to helping future-focused organizations optimize their retail operations. RMS collaborates with leading brands to optimize their brick and mortar stores through elevated communication, maximum compliance, and stronger retail performance.
For a demo and more information on how RMS can improve your in-store retail execution, visit www.rmsretail.com
Wiseplum
351 King Street East, Suite 200
Toronto ON Canada M5A 0L6
Tel: 1-404-814-9188
Contact: Paula Courtney
What we do
WisePlum is a user-friendly customer experience insights platform for retailers. It answers one critical question “Where should I invest in the customer experience to increase sales and grow market share?” No advanced analytics or market research training needed. Within seconds, business leaders can see which specific negative customer experiences, both in-store and online, drive business performance.
Three key takeaways attendees will receive from our Blended Commerce Imperative Session with Ace Hardware & Spud.ca:
1. Learn about what Canadian consumers expect from retailers – regardless of how they buy.
2. What are the top areas of friction for consumers when they buy and how are retailers like Ace and Spud innovating for service excellence?
3. How have consumer expectations changed over time and how do you see that changing in the future?
Event Level
The bulk of what we do is solving strategic problems like acquisition, retention, engagement, product design, and process optimization for Global 1000 companies. So far we've tackled loyalty program design, designed a new insurance product, created and marketed a new pricing strategy for an IT company, and developed a new compensation plan for a sales team, among other price/product/process/promotion challenges spanning industries. In terms of what industries and projects, it boils down to this: if there is a specific behavior you are looking to create or influence, there is a possibility we may be able to help you.
We are typically hired by a CMO or his/her senior leadership executives ready to tackle challenges with our expertise; but we've also received work from the CEO, COO, and members of the Board with an intuition that "there has to be a better way." A CEO once called saying "it's like I've been banging my head on the same wall for five years. There must be a different approach." There is, and we helped. We like helping big companies, but we will also work with smaller companies too – if you have an interesting problem and/or interesting people passionate about the possibilities of behavioral science, let's see what we can do.
Attend Freckle IoT's Lunch & Learn Session from 12:40-1:00pm
PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCES VS DATA SECURITY
With consumers increasingly worried about misuse of their data retailers need to consider the balance of personalized online experiences with an environment of growing concern and regulation. As the competitive landscape for retailers now depends on the individual customer experience, full and actionable insights on the 360 degree view of the customer from online to offline--and even back to online will be the make or break moving in 2019 and beyond. Bring your lunch and join us!
Glacier Media Group
225 Duncan Mill Rd Suite 320
Toronto, ON M3B 3K9
Deborah Frye
Glacier Media delivers essential daily news, market analysis, data-rich intelligence and a range of marketing solutions to clients and audiences internationally. We add value by connecting executives to a community of over 500,000 senior managers and influencers – informing and empowering them, helping them to build their business.
Halo Metrics
14 – 3600B LAIRD ROAD, MISSISSAUGA, ON,
L5L 6A7 905-828-2588
Contact Name: David Kurth About
5 Actionable takeaways attendees will receive from visiting your booth
• Learn how to use in-store visitor analytics to:
• Optimize labour and increase conversion
• Optimize store layout by understanding the customer journey
• Measure the effectiveness of in-store Marketing Events
• Overall improve conversion and basket size
omNovos
Ottawa, ON, K2K 2M5
Tel # 613-744-8204
Contact: Alanna Leeks
3 takeaways attendees will receive from our Fast5 Session:
-What does Personalization really mean? It might not be what you think.
-Laying the framework to achieve true personalization. It doesn’t have to be complicated
-The tools you need to execute on a personalization strategy. What is a CDP and why does it matter?
Get in Touch! @omNovos_Global
relation 1
37 Front Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1BE
Tel: 416.361.3522
Let Relation 1 help you rise above! Come find out:
• What do Canadians expect from brand communications?
• What makes consumers engage with a brand – irrespective of the message?
• How can your brand achieve positive communication results over the long term?
• Which Canadian brands can we learn from?
Reprise Digital
10 Bay St. 9th Floor. Toronto, ON. M5J 2S3
Tel #: 416-645-7160
Contact Name: Matt Ramella
At Reprise, we’re reinventing digital experiences everywhere, every day. With end-to-end capabilities that include search, social media, mobile, content, eRetail and strategy, we cut to the core of what truly drives customers by providing a holistic digital-first approach. Armed with intelligent insights and an audience-first approach, our expert team of specialists deliver integrated initiatives that help the world’s biggest brands connect to the people who drive their business forward - efficiently and effectively.
Part of the Mediabrands division of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Reprise is headquartered in New York with over 40 offices around the world. To learn more about how we can empower your business, visit reprisedigital.com now.
Soft Signs 207353 highway 9 Mono, Ontario, L9W 6J2 T: 519 938 9986 Providing your brand with a unique way of delivering quality advertising Since 1986 Soft Signs is dedicated to providing your company with custom, highly visible advertising options. Based in Ontario, Canada, we understand the marketing puzzle and we deliver impactful marketing solutions through our range of unique, eye catching products. For over 30 years Soft Signs has been supplying marketers & advertisers with high quality Inflatables, Flags & E-Z Up Tents. Our culture is driven by innovation & execution. Our commitment to our customers is to provide products that will deliver meaningful results.
Stocard
343 Rankin Drive
Burlington ON L7N 2B2
Tel 905-630-6695
Contact: Jesse Michael
Over 35 million users make Stocard one of the leading mobile wallets in the world and one of the preferred shopping companions from couch to counter. The innovative and easy-to-use app allows millions of users to turn their smartphone into a mobile wallet and brands to connect with customers to drive them to stores.
Using cutting-edge technologies, Stocard aims to make daily shopping experience easy, engaging and rewarding all over the world. To retailers, Stocard delivers a high frequency digital loyalty platform, reaching their target audience at the right time and place. State-of-the-art analytics quantify the impact of their mobile advertising efforts in terms of store traffic and in-store sales. Stocard has been listed as one of the best apps of the year by Apple and is one of the few Android Excellence apps selected by the Google team. A team of marketers, engineers, designers and data scientists working in six locations - Mannheim (HQ Global), Sydney, Rome and Amsterdam, Toronto and Paris. The diverse and international team is growing further with the vision of a global mobile wallet.
Media Partners
Ad Standards
33 Bloor Street East, Suite 303, Toronto ON M4W 3H1
Phone: (416) 961-6311
Fax: (416) 961-7904
Email: info@adstandards.ca
Ad Standards is the national, not-for-profit, advertising self-regulatory body. Through responsible industry self-regulation, we foster community confidence in Canadian advertising. By administering the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards and offering advertising preclearance, we ensure the integrity and viability of Canadian advertising for all consumers
In 1957, Ad Standards was created by the Canadian advertising industry to support advertisers and consumers. We regularly offer educational industry seminars and presentations to help advertisers produce truthful, fair and accurate advertising. Upon request, we offer presentations at post-secondary institutions and each year we support advertising and marketing students by awarding the Ad Standards Scholarship.
Postmedia
365 Bloor Street East
Toronto, ON M4W 3L4
Tel #: 416-383-2300
Contact: Jeff Strebul
Postmedia is a Canadian newsmedia company representing hundreds of brands across multiple print, online, and mobile platforms. Postmedia Solutions gives you the power to grow your business. We blend media expertise with smart marketing. It’s the perfect balance of creativity and science to propel brand awareness, engagement, conversion and loyalty.