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2012 Partners & Sponsors

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The Consumer Business specialists in Deloitte’s global network combine deep industry experience and understanding of regional markets to help retailers and consumer products companies around the world succeed wherever they operate. These professionals provide audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to both public and private companies, and they are unified by a collaborative global culture that fosters integrity, outstanding value to markets and clients, commitment to each other, and strength from diversity.

www.deloitte.com/consumerbusiness

 

As a leading global payments company, MasterCard Worldwide prides itself on being at the heart of commerce, helping to make life easier and more efficient for everyone, everywhere. MasterCard serves as a franchisor, processor and advisor to the payments industry, and makes commerce happen by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, governments, businesses, merchants, and cardholders worldwide.

In 2010, $2.7 trillion in gross dollar volume was generated on its products by consumers around the world. Poweredby the MasterCard Worldwide Network – the fastest payment processing networkin the world – MasterCard processes over 23 billion transactions each year and hasthe capacity to handle 160 million transactions per hour, with an average network response time of 130 milliseconds and with 99.99 percent reliability.

MasterCard advances global commerce through its family of brands, including MasterCard(R), Maestro(R), and Cirrus(R); its suite of core products such as credit, debit, and prepaid; and its innovative platforms and functionalities, such as MasterCard PayPass(TM) and MasterCard inControl(R).

MasterCard serves consumers, governments, and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. For more information, please visit us at www.mastercard.com.

Follow us on Twitter: @mastercardnews.

www.mastercard.com

Key Partners

Boxwood specialise in the design and implementation of consumer driven business transformation programmes that deliver tangible and long lasting benefits. We have significant experience in all retail industry segments across Europe and the Middle East where we have built a reputation for working with our partners to deliver unreasonable results.

www.boxwood.com

 

Elmwood has won more International Design Effectiveness Awards than anyone else in the last year, and cumulatively over the 20-year history of the scheme. The awards recognise the commercial success of design strategy. We have worked with retailers from Coles in Australia to Walmart in the USA through to Pets at Home, B&Q and Ann Summers, the sex toy and lingerie brand, in the UK. We also work for many of the world’s largest FMCG names like Nestlé and Unilever.

www.elmwood.com

 

Market Insight Partner

GfK Retail and Technology is the world's leading market research company for tracking point-of-sale data in Consumer Technology and Fashion markets.

We co-operate with retailers and resellers in more than 80 countries who provide us with data at model level. The GfK data platform, StarTrack, ensures manufacturers and industry leaders receive comparable information at international level.

Our market experts offer fact-based consultancy on brand share and channel performance at both country and international level.

www.gfkrt.com

World Retail Awards Headline Partner

Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. 20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide - including fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers - use Oracle solutions to drive performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth across traditional, mobile and commerce channels.  For more information, visit our Web site at:

www.oracle.com/goto/retail