Sponsors
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Salesforce
Salesforce is the world’s #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. We help your marketing, sales, commerce, service and IT teams work as one from anywhere — so you can keep your customers happy everywhere.
Unite teams around a 360-degree view of every customer at every touchpoint on their journey. Deliver personalized experiences your customers expect and build lifetime loyalty with Salesforce for Retail. Hear what Best Buy Canada , had to say about us:
“With Salesforce, we can enrich more people’s lives with technology. It enables us to work faster and have smarter conversations with our customers.”
- Theirry Hay-Sabourin, Senior Vice President of eCommerce & Technology, Best Buy Canada
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AMEX
As a proud sponsor of the Retail Council of Canada, helping you do more business is our business at American Express Canada.
When you accept American Express Cards, you gain access to higher spending customers and a greater number of business clients.
We also help retailers grow through business solutions that include cash flow management, providing working capital opportunities and lucrative rewards
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.
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 88,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada’s biggest bank, and one of the largest in the world based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at rbc.com/community-social-impact/
Thinkmax
Leveraging advanced industry and technical expertise with leading-edge technologies, Thinkmax implements efficient and innovative solutions, streamlining business processes, unifying digital experiences, and accelerating transformative change.
With offices in Canada and the US and partnerships with world-leading organizations, Thinkmax’s human-centric, hands-on approach and proven methodology build sustainable solutions and enduring relationships for ongoing success.
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Cradlepoint
Cradlepoint enables the freedom to connect people, places, and things that drive more experiences, more ways to work, and better business results — anywhere. The company is a pioneer in Wireless WAN, offering advanced 4G and 5G routers and adapters — controlled through Cradlepoint NetCloudTM. Retail stores rely on Cradlepoint and its Cellular Intelligence to build a reliable, secure network for fixed and temporary sites, vehicles, IoT devices, and remote employees. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Cradlepoint is a subsidiary of Ericsson’s Business Area Technologies and New Businesses division. It has international offices in Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, India, and Latin America. www.cradlepoint.com
Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
PayPal
PayPal enables enterprises to build scalable and secure payment systems leveraging one of the largest global payment networks. With PayPal, enterprises can create seamless commerce experiences for consumers and drive conversion across multiple channels and payment methods. The PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
While expanding to new markets, enterprises can build optimized card processing and leverage machine learning-based risk intelligence – all while navigating complex regulatory environments with the help of PayPal expertise. The platform’s combination of global scale, technology, and consumer intelligence from the PayPal wallet makes it a qualified and connected partner for merchants using payments innovation as a catalyst for growth.
Tulip
Tulip provides a suite of cloud-based solutions that power the modern store experience. Partnered with Apple and Salesforce, Tulip equips sophisticated retailers to build connections with customers, fulfill orders, checkout purchases, and optimize operations in order to create the end-to-end experience modern customers expect. Leading retailers like Mulberry, Saks Fifth Avenue, Indigo, Kate Spade, Purolator, and Michael Kors use Tulip to elevate the shopping experience, increase sales, and improve customer service across channels.
Visit tulip.com to learn more.
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BFG
BFG offers flexible end-to-end I.T. and electrical solutions with a focus on improving our client’s performance and enhance their ROI. We only succeed when you succeed!
We deliver our services from 9 offices across the country. We are the single source for companies that operate here, providing reliable installations, services, and complete support so you to not need to manage multiple vendors.
Trusted by Canada’s largest retailers and restaurant groups, many take full advantage from our customized offerings, including Installations, Field Services, Electrical Services, Distribution and Office Technologies.
Come see us and let us show you what we can do for you!
Chase Canada
Power your Business with Secure Payment Solutions from Chase
As a business owner, you need simple, secure and easy-to-use solutions to accept card payments. Your customer comes first so why not let them pay the way they want, wherever business happens for you today.
With Chase Merchant Services, you’re getting more than 20 years of experience helping businesses accept payments in-store, online and on-the-go with the products, service and technology that suit your every business need.
Chase can help your business grow. Find out how.
Moneris
As a Canadian company born and bred, Moneris® is proud to be the payment solutions partner Canadian businesses trust. Moneris understands the payment landscape and is here to help businesses like yours accept payments easily and securely. Whether you want to accept payments in-person, online, or via mobile devices, Moneris offers a variety of solutions that can meet your different business needs. Get up and running quickly and easily with a stress-free setup, and know that you’ll always have access to 24/7 support.
Scandit
Scandit Smart Data Capture helps retailers delight customers & automate store operations through unmatched speed, accuracy and intelligence. We enable retailers to deliver a true omnichannel experience by blending the e-commerce environment with the physical store. From the shop floor to back of house, retailers automate operations by moving processes like shelf management & stock control onto smart devices while boosting employee efficiency & retention. We also enable great customer experience services like Scan-and-Go shopping & personalized promotions to enhance loyalty.Scandit Smart Data Capture platform is built on proprietary computer vision, augmented reality, and machine learning technologies. Our award-winning software puts unrivaled scanning performance into mobile apps, to read barcodes, recognize text & objects, & display real-time information with augmented reality. Trusted by 3 of the top 5 global retailers, many of the world’s most innovative and successful retailers are benefiting from Scandit’s enterprise-grade smart data capture platform, including Sephora, Decathlon, Urban Outfitters, 7-Eleven and Levi Strauss & Co.
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Nudge
Nudge is the digital communications platform that improves the performance of your retail workforce. Backed by the highest user ratings in its category, Nudge provides store associates with the information and tools they need to stay connected at work and reach organizational goals – from a lift in sales to an increase in customer satisfaction. Leading brands such as Staples, Mastermind Toys, and Sporting Life rely on Nudge to communicate better, gather feedback faster, and harness actionable insights to drive better business outcomes.
TC Transcontinental
TC Transcontinental is the largest printer in Canada and a leader in flexible packaging in North America. The Corporation is also positioned as the leading Canadian French-language educational publishing group. For over 45 years, TC Transcontinental’s mission has been to create quality products and services that allow businesses to attract, reach and retain their target customers. Respect, teamwork, performance and innovation are the strong values held by the Corporation and its employees. TC Transcontinental’s commitment to its stakeholders is to pursue its business activities in a responsible manner.
