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Retail
Guidance on getting started in retail, improving your retail business, running a retail premises, retail and the environment, business finances and the law, and employing people in retail
Getting started in retail
Guides which can help you to start up a retail business from finding the right idea to investing in an existing business.
Improving your retail business
Guides to help you enhance and improve your retail business through marketing, growing sales and finding suppliers.
Your retail premises
Guides to help you find and effectively manage retail premises to ensure access for all and a safe retail environment.
Retail businesses and the environment
Guides to help your retail business lessen its impact on the environment and make a real difference on climate change.
Retailing and the law
Guides which summarise common legal issues which retail businesses must be aware of and comply with.
Employing people in your retail business
Guides which can help your retail business to understand employment issues, rights and how to comply with the law.
Sales and marketing - find a case study
Examples of businesses in Northern Ireland who have overcome sales and marketing challenges
Buy or sell a business - find a case study
Case studies focusing on companies that have been bought, sold or fanchised
What is a cartel?
An overview of how a cartel is defined by law and the penalties you and your business could face if it trades in one
Competition law
Understand how the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 affect your business
Price-fixing and other anti-competitive agreements
The law relating to price fixing and other agreements between businesses to restrict competition
Optimising content for mobile devices
How to make sure your mobile website is accessible and easy to use
Negotiate and close the sale
How to manage a negotiation, and ways of getting the client to commit to your product or service
Who is involved in an e-commerce project?
An overview of the range of interested parties involved in an e-commerce project including marketing and IT and external suppliers
Prepare your business to tender for contracts
Assess areas for improvement in your business to pass pre-qualification and tender successfully for contracts
Online selling
How your business can successfully use the internet to sell its products or service including creating an online shop and marketing online
Packaging and labelling for export
What packaging and labelling considerations businesses should consider when exporting goods including local rules and language.
Product packaging design
How the design of your packaging can help you sell your goods and build your brand.
Packaging - environmental considerations
Environmental regulations and considerations when designing packaging including reducing the weight and volume and your duty of care for waste.