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Support for growing a retail business
Starting or improving a retail business can attract certain financial, training and advisory support in Northern Ireland, find out which organisations can help.
How to market your retail business
How to successfully market your retail business in a changing world, looking at traditional advertising, sponsorships, partnerships and digital marketing.
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.
Transport - find a case study
Transport case studies to help with transport issues in your business
Growing a retail business - Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall (video)
James Cunningham, Managing Director of Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall, explains how they successfully grew their retail business.
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.
End dates for non-zero emission vehicle sales
Pathway for decarbonisation of cars, vans and HGVs in the UK with key dates for ending petrol and diesel vehicle sales.
Workplace transport safety
It's your responsibility to minimise risks from any kind of transport, from manual handling to heavy vehicles.
Manage vehicle movements to ensure safety in the workplace
Reduce the risks posed by vehicle movements through planning, separation, safety policies and procedures.
Safety when vehicles are used in the workplace
Minimising health and safety risks when making or receiving deliveries and moving items within your premises.
Vehicle exhaust dangers in the workplace
How to prevent exposure to vehicle exhaust fumes in the workplace and control the potential danger to staff.
Loading, unloading and tipping safety
Safety issues when loading and unloading, tipping, sheeting and unsheeting and how to assess the risks.
Lifting and manual handling safety
How to minimise the risks caused by moving items by hand or when using lifting equipment in your business.
Avoid falls from vehicles
Avoiding falls from vehicles by using access equipment such as walkways with guard rails and loading platforms.
Parking and reversing safety
Eliminate unnecessary reversing and use training, procedures and equipment to minimise the major risks.