Sponsors
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Platinum
American Express
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
Booth #240
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.
Gold
DAC
DAC is a leading, international performance marketing agency that helps brands connect with customers from the enterprise level right down to hyper-local moments. Celebrating 50 years in business and recognized by Forrester as one of the world’s most significant performance marketing agencies, DAC is passionate about helping brands build, maintain, and optimize their online presence, as well as drive traffic and conversions to stores and ecommerce. Our integrated services are built around our unique Enterprise-to-Local methodology, underpinned by technology, and accelerated by our services (paid media, strategy, content, creative, and data analytics). Our campaigns are best-in-class and drive transformational outcomes for our clients, which has led to our success in winning Google Premiere Partner Awards, US Agency Awards, and Search Engine Land Awards. To learn more, visit www.dacgroup.com.
Adyen
Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. With its complete payment solutions, data-driven insights, and global financial products, empowering businesses to thrive in the modern marketplace and drives the future of the emerging “unified commerce” industry with frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, Uber, H&M, Mejuri, eBay, Microsoft, Lightspeed, Moose Knuckles, among others.
Flipp
Booth #226
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.
Toronto Congress Centre
Toronto Congress Centre is the largest privately owned trade & convention facility in Canada with over 1 million square feet of trade & convention space. TCC was founded with single visionary goal: to become the most innovative, customer-focused convention facility in North America. TCC is home to some of the countries largest and most prestigious events. TCC’s success is largely due to their corporate philosophy, GEM™ – “Great Experience Makers”, more than a corporate Mantra, for TCC GEM™ is a way of life. TCC firmly believes “its not enough to do well, one must continually strive to reach above and beyond”. It is this ideology that continues to keep TCC at the forefront of the industry.
KPMG
KPMG in Canada takes a multi-disciplinary approach to help your business overcome challenges and respond to opportunities. We leverage the skills, knowledge, experience and passion of our firm to provide deep business insights and innovative solutions to help you and your business succeed.
The professionals in our Consumer & Retail practice combine deep industry knowledge with extensive experience working with clients in the retail sector, plus the food, beverage and consumer products and restaurant segments.
At KPMG, we provide support in Audit, Tax, and Advisory in a functional, and collaborative way that today’s Consumer & Retail market requires. We measure our success from the only perspective that matters – yours.
Silver
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.
FLO
FLO is Canada’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network. We operate a comprehensive charging ecosystem that fulfills EV drivers’ needs wherever they may be—at home, at work or on the go—by ensuring a consistently simple and seamless experience. FLO offers smart home charging solutions for both single-family houses and multi-unit residential buildings, as well as access to thousands of public charging stations across the country. FLO also provides turnkey solutions to property managers, business owners, employers and municipal administrators who wish to support EV adoption by supplying charging services.
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
JRoss Retail Recruiters
Booth #326
We’re Canada’s leading recruiting agency specializing exclusively in retail.
We’re leaders in recruiting premium candidates for leadership positions, including those that require specialized skillsets.
We have recruiters in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary, and with extensive retail operations experience and years of search experience for Canadian retailers, we recruit candidates at the staff, management and executive levels coast to coast.
We have deep retail industry connections, including an extensive database of qualified candidates and a broad network of contacts at all levels. We place all retail, wholesale and related positions including store, district & regional managers, ecommerce & omnichannel specialists, buyers, human resource professionals, merchandisers, marketing professionals, distribution & logistics staff, senior executives to the CEO level, and others.
The bottom line? We know retail and we find people who fit.
We help you Set The Bar. Hire.
Moneris
Moneris is Canada’s largest provider of innovative solutions for mobile, online and in-store payments, processing more than one in three transactions. Serving businesses of every size and industry, Moneris offers hardware, software and solutions to help transform the way Canadian retailers grow and operate, in payments and beyond.
For more information, visit moneris.com and follow @moneris.
Moneris Data gives you access to comprehensive insights on consumer behaviour trends at a national, provincial, or local level, and provides retailers a look at where your customers live and where they like to spend.
Data Solutions that help empower your business
Oongalee
Oongalee is a Canadian media and technology company based in Toronto, Ontario. Its patented tabletop chargingGateways 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.
Bronze
Event Level
Event Partners
Daltile
Booth #127
Daltile is the best-selling tile brand in America and the largest ceramic manufacturer in the world with brands such as Marazzi, American Olean and our very own Daltile products. Our team is dedicated to creating the best value for our customers through innovative, high-quality products and exceptional customer service. Unlike most of our competitors, many of our collections are proudly designed, developed, and manufactured in the North America. With our in-house designers, research and development, and the capability to produce millions of square feet of tile every year, we will help you succeed by being your single source supplier in the surfaces industry for all your retail locations in North America and World-wide.
Renowned for exceptional style, get to know Daltile and let our award-winning team to bring your retail brand to life. https://www.daltile.com/trade-professionals/national-accounts
Roland DG Americas
Roland DG Americas serves North and South America as the marketing, sales, distribution, and service arm for Roland DG Corporation. Founded in 1981 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Roland DG of Hamamatsu, Japan is a worldwide leader in wide-format inkjet printers for the sign, apparel, textile, retail, personalization and vehicle graphics markets; engravers for awards, trophies, and giftware; photo impact printers for direct part marking; and 3D printers and CNC milling machines for the dental CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, part manufacturing and medical industries.
WaitWell
Booth #236
WaitWell queue management redefines the retail experience by seamlessly eliminating conventional lineups, thereby elevating customer satisfaction to new heights. Through the efficient streamlining of waiting processes, WaitWell ensures swift customer service, cultivating an atmosphere of contentment and bolstering the brand’s reputation.
With reduced wait times, the likelihood of customer abandonment due to lengthy queues diminishes significantly, resulting in a marked decrease in walkaways and a corresponding surge in revenue. Moreover, WaitWell’s analytics capabilities offer invaluable insights into the intricacies of the customer journey, empowering managers to glean actionable intelligence on consumer behavior and preferences. This data-driven approach enables businesses to tailor their services more effectively, fostering deeper customer engagement and loyalty. Furthermore, WaitWell empowers managers with the flexibility to oversee operations across multiple locations remotely.
Whether it’s monitoring queue lengths, analyzing customer flow patterns, or managing staff allocation, WaitWell provides managers with the tools they need to optimize operational efficiency and deliver unparalleled service standards.
Media Partners
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.
Member Benefits Partners
BarterPay
BarterPay has taken the age-old practice of one-to-one bartering and transformed it into a one-to-many organized system where thousands of businesses are converting their unsold time and space and idle inventory into what they need and conserving their hard-earned cash. Retailers can now obtain things like printing, advertising, construction, web development, leasehold improvements, signage, and more by trading their excess inventory at full retail value.
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.
ShipTime
ShipTime is a one stop shop for all things shipping. With ShipTime, RCC members can compare shipping rates with our easy-to-use multi courier program while accessing steep discounts automatically.
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