Connect
ACS Connect are companies providing a service or product into the convenience sector. Suppliers in this package benefit from being plugged in to the leading convenience store trade association, from detailed information and advice about the sector as well as networking opportunities. For more information about becoming a Connect supplier, please contact ACS Commercial Assistant Amber Nile by emailing [email protected]
Accolade Wines
Accolade Wines, Inc. is a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a broad portfolio across the wine, imported beer and spirits categories.
AXA Insurance
As an ACS customer you can take advantage of an exclusive offer from AXA to you that includes:
- An additional 10% discount° on your first year’s cover using code ACS10
- Choose the covers that best support your business with our tailored cover
- Free access to a 24/7 health support line provided by AXA Health
What is business insurance?
Accidents are a part of life and though we wish they wouldn’t happen, sometimes they do. Business insurance is there to give you peace of mind should anything go wrong. It can protect your work, your people, your contents, or equipment - ultimately, business gives you peace of mind when it comes to safeguarding your livelihood.
Who do we cover?
Whether you’re just starting out, or you’ve been your own boss for years – we‘ve got the cover you need. We know small business, and can provide cover for:
- Micro businesses (0-12 employees)
- Sole traders
- Self-employed people
- Small partnerships
- Small companies
Bottomline
Bottomline is at the forefront of making complex business payments simple, smart and secure. We help thousands of companies in 92 countries around the world.
At our core we share ideas, innovate together and support each other personally and professionally. It is through our guiding principles that we achieve our common goal of exceeding expectations and delighting customers.
C-Store Collective
C-Store Collective is a panel of industry-leading consultants, associates and experts.
With over 100 years of combined experience, C-Store Collective, co-founded by industry experts John Heagney, Jonathan Rons and Mike Igoe, offers a range of services for its retail partners, including:
- Business coaching and consulting
- Advice from experts
- Site acquisitions and developments
- Brand ambassadors
Each of the services offered by C-Store Collective are tailored to the needs of the individual retailer and aim to maximise increased profit by maximising the retailer’s store, team and business performance.
Carter Retail Equipment Ltd.
Carter Retail Equipment Ltd. provides its customers with a total solution for refrigerated display equipment and back of house cold storage. We are widely recognised as one of the world’s leading brands in this field and offer complete service including manufacturing, design & development, project management, installation, and after-sales service.
Our range of Chilled display cabinets are perfect for convenience stores where you need a plug and play product, that is backed by a quality manufacturer with a strong after sales department.
Please get in contact to discuss any immediate or future requirements that you have, we’re are confident we can offer you a solution.
CBE
CBE is a pioneer in retail technology with experience built over three decades in the British Isles. CBE offers superior
quality software systems and is the leading supplier of scanning solutions to the supermarket, convenience and forecourt sectors. With in-house software development, 24/7 customer support, excellent training programs & facilities, this ISO 9001 accredited firm is your one-stop-shop for EPoS solutions.
Freephone: 0800 7314591
Email: [email protected]
Collab Coffee
Collab Coffee leads the way in combining two of the world's fastest growing industries - bringing together Coffee and the exciting Creator Economy. Offering white label services alongside brand building, our aim is to modernise this niche by bringing coffee subscriptions, e-commerce and retail options, direct to fans around the world. We're proud of our coffee expertise, with a global network of coffee roasters, manufacturing, and fulfilment teams, to work with our clients every step of the way from initial introduction, to the delivery of every bean to every customer.
Kontrol Coffee is the UK’s first gaming-focused ready-to-drink iced coffee can on the market. Our grab-and-go Kontrol cans are the largest available in the RTD coffee game. We have launched these retail ready cans, partnered with Ubisoft following the release of their new title, Assassin’s Creed ® Mirage. This powerful alliance will create the ultimate collectible as each Mirage Vanilla Latte coffee can, will feature original artwork from the game.
Cross Rental Services
Originally part of a £70M group of established HVAC & Refrigeration businesses spanning UK & Ireland for over a century, Cross Group work in sectors including Air Conditioning, fruit ripening, lighting, oven & catering equipment, all serviced by experienced teams of skilled technicians.
The Cross Group are focused on design innovation, energy efficiency & long-term supplier & customer relationships.
Our boiler fleet has been designed & built in house which means we can offer a high level of flexibility & quality, as well as a capability to provide solutions to almost any sector or scenario & an unmatched capacity to service our clients.
Cross Rental Services’ offer full project management, HAE certification & wide environmental expertise – we offer an unmatched, total service.
Danfoss
Danfoss is a leading global manufacturer of refrigeration components and solutions. A market leader in the UK for package refrigeration units with high efficiency and energy saving designs which qualify for ECA Tax allowances, Danfoss has expertise in the latest ways to optimise refrigeration system design and help meet the latest Eco design criteria. Danfoss also offers a wide range of free on line training to explain more about refrigeration available to all.
Disa Digital Safety Pte. Ltd
DiSa is a wholly owned subsidiary of DISA Limited, a SGX Catalist Company, that specializes in research and development of cutting-edge security solutions.
DiSa Digital Safety (USA), a wholly owned subsidiary of DiSa was named first place winner for the 2017 (R) Tech Asset Protection: Innovation Award by the Retail Industry Leaders Association, USA for its Point-of-Sale Activation (“PoSA Smart Lock”) technology on 24 April 2017. PoSA Smart Lock is the world’s first digital asset-protection solution that removes the benefit of stealing by making the consumer electronic products non-functional until the point of payment by the consumer at retail stores. DiSa launched its Single-Scan Serialization (“3S Smart Barcode”) to prevent return fraud within the same retailer in 2017.
DiSa was also one of the winners of The Peak Tech Laureates 2020. The Peak Tech Laureates seeks to honour technology partners who empower corporations with their most innovative and compelling services and solutions.
Edenred
Edenred is a provider of leading grocery, retail and incentive prepaid card, we work with 25,000 organisations, big and small across the public and private sectors to reward employees and customers. Join the network to drive new customers, sales and brand awareness. The set-up process is fast and easy, and we have a team on hand to help throughout.
Epicurium
Our mission is to be the UK’s favourite source of on-trend, innovative, snacks. We want to be the first place you think of when it comes to sourcing snacks to meet ever evolving market trends and to complement your core range. Our carefully curated range of over 120 high-growth & innovative brands offers our customers real differentiation and a more satisfied, loyal, and higher spending consumer. We serve a wide range of customers looking for the best innovative snacks from independent retailers, offices, and foodservice outlets to major forecourt and retail groups.
ERS Group
ERS Group offer renewable energy solutions, solutions that offset the ever-rising cost of electricity, offer additional value to your customers, are green and are completely tax deductible. With electricity having risen by over 250% since 2021, your chillers, freezers, HVCA, displays, lighting and signage all cost more, much more to run. Installing Solar PV on the roof can offset those costs by up to 70%, and by installing EV Charging, you offer additional value, keeping your customer in your store for longer.
Why ERS?
Well, we’re an ACS Supplier, with over 30 years industry experience, planning our work to minimise impact on your store operations, using our own workforce and the best products on the market, we deliver on time and on budget. Additionally, as an ACS Retailer member you’ll qualify for a discount not available elsewhere.
Invest in an initial 10-minute conversation with us, we’ll help you identify what is achievable.
Fieldfare
Multiple award-winning business, Fieldfare, sells mouth-watering loose and individually portioned premium frozen food which is easy to prepare straight from the freezer. The range includes more than 100 frozen products ranging from fruit and vegetables, award-winning breakfast pastries, super convenient meat, fish and vegetarian mealmakers, as well as tempting desserts.
Fieldfare’s products are sold loose or in individual portions, with no or minimal packaging. This means that consumers can scoop as much as they want and not more than they need, which according to our recent YouGov survey, is exactly what shoppers want. The concept is also perfect for shoppers popping in for last-minute supper ideas and for one or two-person households.
A family-owned, British company with a 47-year heritage, Fieldfare is the UK’s original and most popular supplier of loose and individually portioned frozen foods. It is currently stocked in around 50 convenience locations including Central England and Mid-Counties Coop, CK Supermarkets, Welcome Coop, Nisa Bradleys and Connolly Spar. Fieldfare is also the official independent trade distributor of the premium ready meals brand, ByRuby.
G4S Cash Solutions
As the largest Cash Management Solutions company in the UK, our technology led, cash solutions offers you a range of features to suit your business needs. No matter the type of business, big or small, we help you make your money flow. Securing, transporting and processing your cash.
Juxta
Grow your business with Nomad, an unstaffed, portable turnkey retail solution from JUXTA. Nomad takes you beyond brick-and-mortar with the highest profit per square foot retail format in the world.
Nomad offers an incredibly low operating expense profile with no full-time staff required courtesy of its AI-powered sensor fusion design, and it delivers exceptional topline revenue per square foot with an optimized targeted retail offering of roughly 500 SKUs.
Created with portability at its core, you can operate anywhere your consumers are without a multi-decade commitment to one location.
Compliment your existing retail strategy with short or mid-term retail deployments. With Nomad, you can take Targeted Retail Anywhere.
K5 Business Finance
If you're thinking about expanding your store, carrying out a refit, or purchasing new equipment and you'd like an alternative to using your cash funds, then the team at K5 Business Finance can help. With over 30 years of experience in asset finance, we've been providing finance to retail clients, both large and small for over a decade.
As an independent asset finance broker, we offer a unique alternative to traditional bank loans. With access to over 280 funders, we can find the perfect match for your business requirements. We can fund self-service checkouts, EPoS, CCTV & Alarms, parcel lockers, shelf edge labelling, digital signage, wireless headsets, HHT barcode scanners, refrigeration, LED lighting, shelving, access lifts, EV charging services and vehicles. We can also source commercial loans for building works.
Tel: +44(0)1925 264733
Email: [email protected]
Licensing Solutions
As well as being specialists in forecourt premises license applications, Licensing Solutions’ retail licensing pedigree is second to none having worked with many independent and corporate clients over the years.
Pastorfrigor GB
Providing our customers with not just equipment but sound advice is the primary aim of Pastorfrigor GB. We like to think that our new and loyal customers speak to us because we understand their needs, bring innovations, ideas that are right up to date and really ensure that we keep energy consumption at the top of the agenda when bringing solutions to our clients. Pastorfrigor GB have the right products for you. Whether display refrigeration, bespoke systems, retro fit energy solutions or plain advice you will find our attitude, focus and passion will make us the right partners for your business.
Plan-it Cards
Plan-it Cards distributes its exclusive range of greetings cards and gift wrap through its network of local franchisees and distributors to retailers across the UK.
Your Profitability is the key to our success, so our retail offer is simple - with Plan-it Cards you only pay for what you sell. Display equipment is also available on free loan if needed.
Selling Plan-it Cards greetings cards is a great way to increase sales and attract new customers, while offering a unique and convenient product that benefits from monthly merchandising and replenishing stocks with the latest designs and seasonal products when needed.
REL Field Marketing
REL Field Marketing was founded in 1995 we have close to three decades of relevant sales and merchandising experience. REL is an award-winning field marketing agency working with branded manufacturers and retailers across multiple channels. REL has extensive external recognition including FMBE, Great Place to Work for business, people and product and WorkL Happiest Workplace. REL is also a proud holder of the Silver Ecovadis award, a significant award on our sustainability journey.
REL enjoys full national reach and operate across all retailers and channels in the UK, Ireland and Europe. We support our customers through the entire shopper journey, focusing on engagement, environment, experience measurement and analytics. We build innovative solutions for our customers that help them win where people are engaging with or buying their products.
Our core services are as follows:
· Field Sales and Merchandising
· Brand Ambassadors
· Demonstrations & Sampling
· Experiential Events
· Business Intelligence and Insights
We use a range of flexible resource models which allows REL to create agile, consistent and flexible teams that are reliable and produce rapid results. Our vision, mission and values are the DNA of our organisation and family. Our people promise outlines our cultural commitments and sets the guiding principles in the way we work together.
REL is part of Advantage Smollan, a global commerce solutions company. Our structure enables global integration of high quality, scalable, tailored and complimentary sales and marketing solutions. This alliance gives our customers unparalleled access to a global network of sales and marketing solutions that bring international best practice from all corners of the globe, coupled with local expertise and teams on the ground.
RTMS Limited
RTMS is a technology company that has continually improved the capabilities of smart sensor development and Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), providing bespoke reporting through our own STRAQ platform.
Born in the late 1990s with the desire to develop a robust system of software and hardware that would provide automated reporting and management information in one place, in real time, rather than scattered across multiple systems that may or may not talk to each other.
We started out developing software systems in the Newspaper Industry for stock control of their most expensive raw material, the paper. This quickly evolved into monitoring the performance and quality of the paper and how it ran on the machines. This then developed again into monitoring the machines themselves and providing operational equipment efficiency reporting.
As the paper and newsprint industry began to decline, we made the decision to invest in and focus 100% on the software and hardware side of the business, redeveloping our RFid tag to be a wireless sensor to provide remote telemetry for monitoring both machines and / or retail equipment.
We have spent the last 2-3 years developing a unique set of hardware and software to provide management information at group and store level in real time via both software and hardware to give consistency in reporting.
YourCash
YourCash is an experienced European provider of internal and external ATMs. We operate a varied estate of circa 5000 ATMs and every year our ATMs are used by millions of consumers, requesting billions of Pounds and Euros. Our ATMs allow consumers secure and easy to their cash while boosting our merchants’ bottom line.
We provide a secure and efficient cash solution for businesses and are able to offer everything from our market leading, internal ATM, that suits small retail spaces to our external fully managed ‘Through the Wall’ ATMs that service larger, higher footfall environments.
