Sponsors
Retail Marketing Conference is generously supported by our sponsors.
Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Contact RCC Sponsorship at rccsponsorship@retailcouncil.org
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Caddle
With access to rapid insights at every stage of the consumer journey, Caddle® is the largest mobile-first insights platform that rewards Canadians for sharing data and engaging with brands.
How it Works:
Capture relevant insights for any challenge or opportunity. Engage seamlessly with shoppers at every stage of the consumer journey by leveraging the Caddle suite of tools. Caddle rewards panel members for actions ranging from video, survey, receipt capture, reviews, and more.
Largest Canadian Panel in Market
Caddle is the largest daily active survey panel in the Canadian Market, with over 10,000+ Daily Active Users and 100,000+ Monthly Active Users. Macro & niche data verticals range from Amazon Prime members to new moms, repeat customers to vegan buyers, and more.
Why Us?
Get rapid insights in 72 hours Trusted by fortune 500 brands and major research firms Rich, in depth customer data, including purchase Flexible options customized to suit your brand.
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Environics Analytics
Environics Analytics (EA) is the premier marketing and analytical services company in Canada, helping thousands of customers across every industry sector turn data and analytics into strategy, insights, and results. Established in 2003, we specialize in using best-in-class data, analytics expertise, and purpose-built software to address key challenges in areas such as consumer profiling and segmentation, multichannel media planning and execution, trade area analysis, merchandising strategies and site location decision-making.
Our ENVISION platform provides quick and easy access to our comprehensive and privacy-compliant databases—including the latest mobile movement data. Environics Analytics is a Bell Canada company.
Flipp
Flipp is a technology platform that is reinventing the digital shopping experience. The largest retailers, brands, and digital publishers in North America use the Flipp platform to curate and distribute digital merchandising experiences to millions of highly-engaged shoppers every day. For shoppers, Flipp helps provide for their families by making life more affordable. By delivering local savings and deal content, Flipp makes the planning process seamless, saving shoppers up to $45 a week. In 2022, Flipp acquired reebee in Canada, expanding reach on App to over 5 million monthly shoppers.
Leger
Leger is the largest Canadian-owned market research and analytics company, with more than 600 employees in eight Canadian and US offices. Leger has been working with prestigious clients since 1986.
We offer a full-service suite of research and analytics solutions designed to help our clients solve their most pressing business challenges. Being at the heart of our clients’ strategies enables us to provide smarter insights and actionable recommendations.
Our clients rely on our retail expertise to help them make better decisions, understand consumers and monitor trends. They also rely on our annual WOW study to measure customer experience and evaluate performance indicators specific to retail businesses. Every year, our WOW and WOW Digital specialized studies reveal the ranking of the retailers that offer the best in-store and online customer experiences.
Some of our specialized services include:
The LEO Panel: Our LEO panel is the largest proprietary panel in Canada, with over 400,000 members in North America. The LEO mobile app enables members to respond to surveys anywhere, anytime from their mobile devices. Strict quality control and data privacy systems are in place to ensure data quality and respondent confidentiality. To manage and grow this panel, we have dedicated in-house teams with years of experience. Retailers can also access our panel for their research needs.
Leger Analytics (LEA): Our advanced analytics team offers a one-stop shop to help decision makers answer questions, tackle challenges and make better business decisions. Experts in market research, analytics and data science, our team works with all kinds of data (first party, transactional, CRM, market research, web data and more) and offers a wide variety of custom analytics solutions.
Leger DGTL: Our in-house digital marketing agency has proven expertise in strategy, media, creative content activation and performance measurement. Leger DGTL creates effective, customized digital campaigns by improving customer segmentation, optimizing advertising messages and prioritizing the best platforms. Leger DGTL helps our clients ensure they reach the right audience, at the right time, with the right message.
Visit leger360.com to learn more.
Prospect Media
Prospect Media: Your Partner in Data-Driven Retail Success
At Prospect Media, we put you first. We’re a retail-focused, data-driven, integrated media agency dedicated to helping you reach and engage your customers. Our secret? We let 1PD consumer analytics drive every decision we make.
We dive deep into dynamic customer transaction data and combine it with our proprietary research, customized models and collective expertise to craft the perfect strategies and media channel mix for your brand. By locating, segmenting, and profiling your customers, we ensure your marketing dollars are strategically invested in the right integrated media channels.
Our customized analytics approach is the engine that powers your success. With Prospect Media, you’ll experience the difference that personalized, data-driven strategies can make in reaching your audience and achieving your goals.
Public Office
Booth #1
Public Office is a fast & fresh strategic and creative consultancy that unlocks the powerful potential of your brand.
We work with executives to propel established brands and entrepreneurs to light the spark, customizing our bold approach to brand design, business strategy and marketing execution to deliver excellence at speed.
With a combined 80+ years of experience, our leadership team has advised and worked within some of the best brands in Canada.
Watt International
Watt International Inc. is an integrated retail agency, with over 55 years’ experience working in over 40 countries around the world. With a unique business model that integrates world-class consulting with inspired creativity, Watt International leads its industry in uncovering the most meaningful insights, setting the right strategies, and delivering results-oriented creative solutions across every brand touchpoint.
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Match Retail
Booth #3
Match Retail is a leading sales, merchandising and branded retail agency working for major brands across North America. Inspired by an endless desire to help transform brands so they can be retail ready, Match Retail works with tier one clients to drive conversion in traditional shopping environments through enhanced customer experiences. The agency prides itself on top-notch people and best-in-class training to produce unparalleled execution that it measures with pinpoint accuracy. Learn more at www.matchretail.com
Oongalee
Oongalee is a Canadian media and technology company based in Toronto, Ontario. Its patented tabletop charging Gateways are designed to keep everyone’s phone charged while providing a high-definition portal to businesses and its services through digital advertising. Oongalee’s advertising network provides a completely unique platform. The company’s focus around impression time and targeted reach ensures that brands are recognized and remembered and its exclusive restaurant network provides uncomparable exposure. Oongalee’s charging Gateway provides the ultimate phone charging solution for diners while offering a revolutionary platform for advertisers to reach people intimately and meaningfully like never before, redefining how brands speak to the masses. Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/oongalee
TC Transcontinental
TC Transcontinental is the largest printer in Canada and one of the largest in North America and a leader in flexible packaging in the United States, Canada and Latin America.
For over 45 years, we have been helping our customers maximize their results by effectively integrating innovative printing solutions, helping publishers and marketers deliver their content. We are constantly improving our print offering with the goal of helping our customers better attract, reach and retain their target readers and consumers through our unique customer-oriented service offering which combines mass and personalized solutions.
Over the last few years, the company has invested heavily in its printing network to ensure it provides state-of-the-art technology. Our services include a wide array of solutions for our customers, including premedia, printing and distribution.
We serve key clienteles including book, magazine and newspaper publishers, as well as retailers, cataloguers, marketers and advertising agencies. In total, more than 2,000 customers across North America trust TC Transcontinental Printing with their printing projects.
Our mission is simple: create products and services that allow businesses to attract, reach and retain their target customers. In this pursuit, we are firmly guided by our vision to become a market leader in flexible packaging in North America while maintaining our position as Canada’s largest printer.
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AdMill Group
The AdMill Group and Elite Bindery & Mail Solutions have provided Neigbourhood Mail, Personalized Mail, Bindery and other print delivery and finishing related services to retail clients for over a quarter century.
AdMill’s weekly footprint for the shared mail flyer package extends to more than 2.2 million households delivered through Canada Post. Key markets covered include the Greater Toronto Area, London and surrounding communities, Northern Ontario stretching from Sudbury to Hurst, Ottawa, Kingston and communities in Brant, Niagara and Haldimand regions.
As a Canada Post Smart Mail Marketing Expert, our superior household flyer delivery quality is unmatched.
Our clients can rest assured that every flyer is delivered on time, and in the mailbox.
With targeting being driven by the six-digit postal code, inaccuracies due to interpretation or conversion to other forms of geography are eliminated. Postal Codes, Postal Walks and Household Counts are maintained by Canada Post with regular monthly updates. Marketers can be confident that their target geography, household type and target audience will be delivered as specified, achieving increases in foot traffic and online store visits.
Utilizing Canada Post, a Crown corporation, our clients receive the highest standard of household delivery. The AdMill Group is expert in working with the complexities associated with stringent quality standards practiced by Canada Post’s letter carrier network.
AdMill’s shared mail alternative ensures a Canada Post delivery is executed at substantial savings to our clients. Shared delivery with some of the most well-known retail brands, AdMill offers the best value for our client’s print media investment.
Our team is looking forward to working with you to optimize your flyer delivery program. You can reach us at The AdMill Group, 625 Hood Road, Markham, Ontario L3R4N6 or email sales@admillgroup.com.
Locala
Locala’s omnichannel advertising platform leverages granular insights and cutting-edge AI to help marketers efficiently plan, activate, and measure campaigns personalized to the local consumer. Our platform specializes in transforming complex mobility and consumer data into actionable audience insights, fueling advanced media strategies that consistently deliver smarter business outcomes.
Since our inception in 2012, Locala has proudly worked with leading brands across 40 countries. With over 180 employees around the globe, Locala has offices in the United States, France, Belgium, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy, Canada and Dubai. For more information, visit asklocala.com.
Niagara Falls Convention Centre
Whether planning a large conference, an executive board meeting or a theatre-worthy show, host your next event just 300 steps from the natural wonder of Niagara Falls, in the heart of Canada’s premier wine and culinary region. Our state-of-the-art venue boasts 200,000 square feet of open, flexible space, a prime location in the Fallsview Boulevard District, and proximity to over 4,000 branded guest rooms, meaning Niagara Falls Convention Centre is the ideal destination for your next corporate event.
Event Level
ICON Digital Productions
Booth #4
We specialize in transforming physical spaces and helping create memorable experiences through print, content strategy, innovation, and digital technology.
Media Partners
Postmedia
Postmedia is a trusted and reliable network of 130+ media brands, with credentials of outstanding journalism, extensive digital capabilities, and an audience of millions of Canadians each month. Our unparalleled platform of trusted local and national Canadian brands also provides businesses with exclusive access to an owned and operated advertising and marketing channel and a wealth of first-party data that enables better campaign results, not just on the Postmedia network but on search and social channels as well.
At Postmedia Solutions, we can raise the profile of your business, help outsmart your competition, and generate more leads for you. We integrate tactics to maximize your impact and return on investment on the Postmedia network and beyond.
We are known for building long-term partnerships with our 19,000+ customers. Working with 30,000+ businesses across Canada makes Postmedia uniquely qualified to provide tailored campaigns that drive success for businesses.
To learn more, visit postmediasolutions.com.
Retail Insider
Retail Insider is Canada’s number one source for retail news and insight, featuring original stories, headlines from around the web, and in-depth analysis into the Canadian retail industry.
The Voice of Retail Podcast
The Voice of RetailTM is a weekly podcast hosted by retail pioneer, senior retail advisor and keynote speaker Michael LeBlanc and produced in conjunction with Retail Council of Canada.
Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in Canada, with more than 5.0 million readers every week in print and online (thestar.com).
Founded in 1892, the Toronto Star is the winner of more than 140 National Newspaper Awards, the most prestigious newspaper prize in Canada. It is known for its investigative reporting, insightful opinion writing and comprehensive coverage of local, national and international news.
Member Benefits Partners
Chase
For over 30 years, Chase® Merchant Services has been committed to providing businesses with safe, reliable and secure payment solutions. Chase Merchant Services has experience delivering solutions for Canada’s businesses and will work with you one-on-one to help choose competitive options for your business, understand the costs associated with payment processing, and provide innovative solutions unique to your needs.
RetailCare
Retail Council of Canada (RCC), in collaboration with health benefits experts – Producers Group, have created RetailCare, an affordable, best-in-class employee health and wellness benefits program.
Discover how easy it can be to offer your employees and their families the added advantage of this kind of support and, in the process, improve your ability to attract and retain happy, productive retail staff.