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Retail business networking
Get your retail business known in the local community and across Northern Ireland and beyond by engaging in local networking events and activities like CSR.
Advantages and disadvantages of online retailing
Online retail has advantages and disadvantages for businesses with huge growth potential balanced against initial costs and security and legal issues.
Explore new retail opportunities
Growing your retail business takes a good business plan as well as spotting and exploiting the right opportunities, discover the options for expanding.
Visual merchandising for your retail business
How to use visual merchandising to promote your retail business and products, attract customers and drive sales.
Visual merchandising: point-of-sale displays and price promotions
Customers can be encouraged to make impulse purchases by using point-of-sale displays and price promotions.
Visual merchandising: advantages of retail window displays
Effectively using window displays can have many benefits for your business.
How to improve and measure the impact of visual merchandising
Monitoring your visual merchandising can help you to decide whether to continue or change what you’re doing.
How to improve construction procurement practices
How to reduce waste on your site by forecasting material needs accurately and pre-qualifying subcontractors.
Reducing construction waste by being involved in the design process
How the input of construction contractors into the project design phase can help to reduce construction waste.
Forecast, measure and report waste in your construction projects
How construction clients can work to forecast, measure and report waste from their construction projects.
Embedding a culture of waste reduction in your construction business
How to ensure that construction contractors' waste management initiatives are efficiently implemented.
Reduce waste in your construction procurement processes
How clients can reduce overall waste in construction projects through better processes in procurement.
Using improved construction logistics to reduce waste
How construction contractors can use a logistics plan to efficiently manage on-site construction waste.
Reduce waste in your construction supply chain
How more effective design and planning can help clients to reduce construction waste in the supply chain.
Cut waste from smaller construction projects
Identifying and reducing waste in small construction projects can be challenging but also cost-productive.
Reduce construction wastage allowances and rates
How construction clients can reduce wastage by negotiation and sharing savings with contractors and suppliers.
Reuse and recycle construction materials
How clients can encourage the use, recycling and reuse of materials to reduce overall waste from construction.
Contractor's guide to cutting waste from construction projects
How construction contractors can work to effectively reduce waste in their construction projects and save money.
Recovering and using recycled aggregates
What recycled or secondary aggregates are, the associated quality protocols and best practice, and how to buy them.
Designer's guide to cutting waste from construction projects
How designers can eliminate waste from construction projects at the design stage to cut costs and conserve resources.