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DSGI EXTENDS
RETAILERS FLICK
X Lord Alan
Sugar’s digital
PRODUCTIVITY
SWITCH ON £140K
signage company,
Amscreen has
SYSTEM ROLL OUT
OF WASTED ENERGY
announced a
deployment with
the Financial
UK electrical goods retailer, DSG
more cash on unnecessarily high
Times, that will
international (DSGi) is to roll out
Torex Productivity Management T
he Carbon Trust has
announced it is to help energy bills.”
see Amscreen’s
thousands of small and “With credit all but dried up
close proximity
signage units
across all of its 640 High Street and
medium sized retailers to drive down elsewhere, the Big Business Re � t
showing the latest
out-of-town retail brands, including
their costs by as much as £41 million breaks the deadlock by helping SMEs
FT content at key
Currys and Currys.digital.
through “The Big Business Re � t,” a to buy the equipment that will both
retail locations
The new system will enable DSGi
to optimise staf � ng levels within
new programme set to launch in slash their costs and often transform
across London.
stores to better cater for the speci � c
September. their businesses.”
The bespoke
‘plug-and-play’
requirements of the local markets
The Big Business Re � t will offer The organisation said SME retailers
technology allows
they serve, allowing them to offer retail small-to-midsized enterprises can also bene � t from free energy
screen content
improved customer service and pass
(SMEs) expert advice and � nancial saving assessments from a Carbon
to be updated
cost savings onto the customer.
support to slash their energy costs by Trust expert and a tailored action plan
remotely and in
After successfully running the
scrapping old inef � cient equipment that identi � es the savings that could
real time without
system in 160 PC World stores
the need for any
across the UK since 2003, DSGi is
and replacing it with new energy be made by replacing energy-guzzling
extra cabling or
extending its use of the system to
ef � cient models. equipment.
IT infrastructure
a further 510 Currys, Currys.digital
It follows a recession-driven surge The Carbon Trust’s unsecured,
onsite.
and Dixons Travel (airport) stores. in demand for the Carbon Trust’s interest-free loans can be used for
As well as unifying management
interest-free business loans. In the equipment replacements costing
processes across its businesses, the
� rst six months of 2009, hundreds between £3,000 and £400,000.
system has allowed the company to
of retailers from the corner � sh and The loans are designed to pay for
take � rmer control of its resources
as it responds to changing
chip shop to supermarkets have been themselves through direct energy
conditions.
given loans at zero-interest to equip savings, so that once the loan is repaid,
Torex Productivity Management
their businesses with the latest energy savings go straight to bottom line. With
is designed to give managers a clear saving technology. As a result, they a total of £100m available, the Big
ongoing insight into the staf � ng
are saving an average of over £8,000 Business Re � t is expected to help up
levels suitable for each individual
each on their annual energy bills – a to 49,000 UK retail SMEs save a total
store. It takes into account sales
collective total of over £140,000 a of £41m off their annual energy costs.
targets, the nature of the items in
stock and how this affects the time
year. Retailers that want to take part
taken to serve customers, as well
Tom Delay, the Carbon Trust chief in the Big Business Re � t can get
X Henkel, the
as the speci � c requirements of the
executive said: “Retail business owners expert advice from the Carbon Trust
maker of Pritt
Stick, UniBond
local communities they serve. are realising that for every month by calling 01865 885879 or visiting:
and Loctite has
It also provides an ef � cient system
they ‘make do and mend’ with old,
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/energy/
signed up systems
for recording the hours store
inef � cient equipment, they are wasting takingaction/about-loans.htm. integration
colleagues work, processing complex
consultancy,
dynamic working schedules, such
Accenture to
as those for colleagues who do not Fashion brand Jane Norman has provide application
work the same hours or days each
engaged Retail Assist, to provide an
development and
week, and ensuring that wages are
out-of-hours helpdesk to support its 101
maintenance
paid accurately and on time.
UK stores. The contract also includes a
services in
Jon Naylor, DSGi head of
Europe and
productivity said: “By implementing
weekend remote operations monitoring
North America
Torex Productivity Management
service for its head of � ce servers.
under a seven-
across all our UK stores, we can
Philip Boggis, Jane Norman IT director
year application
ensure that our business is in the explained: “We wanted to reallocate
outsourcing
best possible position to adapt to
our IT Support team to strategic
contract. The
the changing conditions of the local
contract covers
projects rather than cover the out-of-
retail marketplace. Our goal is to
the manufacturer’s
hours support. At the same time, we’ve
SAP, web
offer our customers an unbeatable
and business
combination of value, choice and
opted to have Retail Assist remotely
intelligence
service. By tailoring our resources
monitor our key event schedules over
applications
to suit each store’s particular
the weekends including store polling,
as well as
requirements, Torex Productivity batch job processing on our Mercatus
its customer
Management will help us achieve
merchandise management system and
relationship
this.”
other key overnight batch processes.”
management
(CRM) programs.
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