Retail tech show announces 2014 plans
Retail Business Technology Expo 2014 aims to stake its claim as the leading European Retail event with a number of planned developments
Organisers of Retail Business Technology Expo (RBTE), the UK-based retail IT trade show, said its 2014 show is well on track to being the best yet, with its strongest rebooking rate since it began in 2011, which means over 65% of the available exhibition space is already taken.
Nick Field, Retail Business Technology Expo event director, said: “This has been a phenomenal rebooking period and we are way ahead of plan.
"The feedback from both exhibitors and visitors has been outstanding. We’ve got some very exciting developments planned for RBTE 2014, which make the show even more essential to the UK and European retail industry next March.”
Market leading exhibitors
Exhibitors already signed up for RBTE 2014 include AirTight Networks, AirWatch, APG Cash Drawer, Applied Data Corporation (ADC), AURES Technologies, Axis Communications, bleep, Blue Yonder, Brother, Cash Bases, Cybertill, DataCash, DED, Enactor, Epson, Ergonomic Solutions, Europacom.net, Eurostop, Evolution, Futura Retail Solutions, Ingenico, Ipsos and Island Pacific.
Others include MagTek Europe, Mobile
Data Collection, Nisyst, Panasonic Computer Products Solutions, Premier Tax
Free, Retail IT, Scan Coin, Secure Retail, Servebase, ShopperTrak, Purple WiFi,
Star Micronics, Stratacahe, Tellermate, The Pricing People, Transaction Network
Services (TNS), Us, VeriFone UK, Volumatic, X2 Computing and YESpay.
A number of participants in the March 2013 show, had positive feedback and high expectations for next year. “We met a great deal of potential customers at RBTE," reported Cerys Johnson, chief financial officer at mobile software developer Tinderstone.
“It provided exactly the right
audience for our business and is key to our sales and marketing strategy.
Nowhere else can you demonstrate your products to hundreds of relevant
customers in just two days. It was definitely more than worthwhile.”
Walter Heyvaert, European
business development manager for APG Cash Drawer, added: “RBTE is a perfect place to introduce new products. It gives
us a much deeper reach into the international community. APG Cash Drawer will
definitely be exhibiting again in 2014.”
Delegates
make discoveries
Retailer
testimonials also support the organisers’ claim that the show is as useful for
end-users as it is for those wanting to showcase new products.
Jemma Williams, Waitrose operations
development manager, stated: “At RBTE
we were impressed with the wealth and diversity of new products and innovation
technology. Following our visit we have scoped and pursued several new projects
with the aim to launch at least three into our Little Waitrose Stores this
year.”
Lewis Graham, IT systems analyst
for The Garden Centre Group, even went so far as to say RBTE 2013 provided the
most productive day of my year. “Key
product suppliers have now made multiple presentations to the company as a
result of this show,” he said.
Even
newcomer Nick Connolly, retail, service and support project manager at
Musgrave Retail Partners GB (part of the Musgrave Retail Group), stated: “This
was a first for me – it won’t be the last. Value has been gained already.”
The dates for the next RBTE event have been announced as 11 and 12 March 2014.
