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

This year was PCMS’s second time at Palmer and Harvey’s Pro-Retail expo, which was held at the International Centre in Telford on 10^th and 11^th May. The event ran over two days and was a fantastic opportunity for anyone who works in the convenience retail industry to see a showcase of established and new products and services. It was also a fantastic opportunity for myself and my colleagues at PCMS to meet entrepreneurs and independent retailers and discuss their experiences running their own businesses. In return we were able to show how the latest technology we provide has been designed with their businesses in mind, to make life simpler and improve profit margins.

On the PCMS stand, we showcased our latest EPoS technology for the convenience industry, BeanStore for Convenience, which has been selected by Palmer and Harvey and their symbol brand ‘Mace’. Over the two days, my colleagues and I spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs and retailers about what BeanStore can offer to their stores and the feedback on our demonstrations proved to be extremely positive.

The big attraction to Pro Retail 11 was certainly Mary Portas ‘Queen of Shops’, who was there to give her views on best practice for independent retailers. Mary proved to be a great draw for thousands of visitors to the event, who all seemed to be very excited to have the rare opportunity to gain advice from one of the best known retail gurus in the business.

The Pro-Retail Gala, held at the close of the expo on Tuesday gave 1,600 exhibitors and attendees a fantastic show, a party that ended with a live band and a free funfair so large that local residents were queuing outside the event seeing if they could come in – a great way to end a busy day talking shop!

Rob Lenane

Convenience Sales Consultant

After the demise of the much maligned retail solutions, it is great news that the Retail Business Technology Expo has come along to give retail suppliers another chance to be informative, educational and entertaining.

Here at PCMS we’re looking forward to attending RBTE and being able to chat to other like-minded members of the retail technology sector and also to demonstrate the many capabilities of our products.

There is a great list of attendees, all of the key suppliers and free drinks in the evening – what more could any self-respecting retailer ask for?

Richard Goodall
Group Sales and Marketing Director