PCMS

PCMS Group was proud to have climbed the tables in the 2012 Sunday Times Profit Track 100 by 32 places from #44 in 2011 to #12 in 2012.  To establish the growth rates of UK companies, the Sunday Times Profit Track analysed over 4 years’ accounts, with PCMS showing growth of an impressive 96%.

The Profit Track demonstrates that despite such a challenging economic backdrop, businesses can still perform well and succeed if they adopt the right strategies. Richard Heap, of the Sunday Times, comments:

“This year’s Profit Track 100 research reveals the variety of strategies behind businesses’ profit growth, including overseas expansion, tighter cost control, buying rival firms, and launching new products or services”.

Here at PCMS our impressive growth has indeed been achieved by implementing tighter cost controls, improving efficiencies at all levels of the company and generating more new business that is complementary to existing business both within the UK and through international expansion.   Alongside our improved efficiencies we have invested resources in further improving our services and solutions portfolio to ensure that existing customers will continue to benefit from the leading-edge technology that has helped to build the business so successfully since its humble beginnings in 1982.

Importantly, PCMS has always been and continues to be an independent, family run company that has proven it is possible to achieve continued success in a challenging economy.

Richard Goodall

Group Sales and Marketing Director

The Retail Business Technology Expo (RBTE)  saw its first show in 2011 at Earls Court, following the demise of Retail Solutions it was a welcomed new addition to the exhibition calendar.  The team at PCMS attended RBTE’s first show and it proved a great opportunity to chat with like-minded members of the retail industry and to discuss the latest key topics in retail.

Next week will see the second year of the show running and once again, PCMS will be there with our range of retail solutions on display.   We’re expecting Mobile to be a key topic for the second year running and are looking forward to hearing what others in the industry have to say on the topic.

 We’ll be on stands 550 and 650 demonstrating our solutions including our leading EPoS solution VISION BeanStore,  VISION Loss Prevention and our M-PoS solutions. 

Once again there is a great list of attendees, all of the key suppliers and free drinks in the evening – what more could you want?

Richard Goodall
Group Sales and Marketing Director

2011 continued to be a challenging year for retailers around the world, with the effects of the global recession still reverberating through our economies, it forced us to address efficiencies at every level of our organisations.   Here at PCMS Group, we invested heavily in our product suites, managed services, infrastructure and personnel, to provide a range of leading-edge technology solutions and services that enable us to help our customers maximise the performance of their business.

The team at PCMS has never been stronger which was reflected in our performance throughout 2011.  We are delighted to have welcomed a number of new clients from around the world across multiple retail sectors including Department Stores, Convenience, Fashion, Grocery, Books, Hospitality and Electrical Hardware.   Our successes have been recognised with our first appearance in the  Sunday Times Profit Track 100, continuing success in the RIS 2011 LeaderBoard and being named for the first time on the MSPMentor 100 list of the world’s top 100 managed service providers.

We held our first Global Software User Group in New York following this year’s NRF ‘Retail’s Big Show’ in January.  This was a prime opportunity for our customers to meet in one place and discuss the big issues in global retail, as well as updating eachother on their current IT projects.  The user group also enabled us to keep our customers informed on what PCMS is doing to ensure our technology remains at the forefront of retail solutions.  The user group was well received with customers from around the world including the UK, USA, Italy, Germany, South Africa and Australia joining us – many thanks go to all of our customers and partners who joined us for making the first meeting such a success.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank our users and partners from around the world for their support in providing references and introductions which have contributed significantly to our continued success.

Richard Goodall

Group Sales and Marketing Director

I’m pleased to announce that PCMS has been shortlisted in two categories of the 2011 Retail Systems Awards; best use of technology in the hospitality and leisure sector and technology vendor of the year. The Retail Systems Awards recognise excellence and innovation in the field of information technology within the UK retail sector.

PCMS has been shortlisted for the best use of technology in the hospitality and leisure industry in partnership with Krispy Kreme, in recognition of the innovative technology needed to meet the rigorous demands of Krispy Kreme’s ambitious growth strategy.

The technology vendor of the year award recognises a UK technology vendor that has excelled in its field, implementing innovative technology into retail organisations during the past year.

The work that we have carried out for retailers such as Krispy Kreme, Marks and Spencer, Luxottica Retail and John Lewis in addition to our work to keep our solutions at the leading edge of retail technology has shown that PCMS is a strong contender for this title.

The Retail Systems Awards 2011 winners will be announced on 26^th October; everyone at PCMS feels extremely proud to have been selected amongst the shortlisted candidates.

Richard Goodall

Group Sales & Marketing Director