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Solutions for Retail

Aug 21, 2014
Main drivers
 
• Construction cost and time reduction: Strong continuous pressure on Design & Build players to reduce
• Operating costs: Retail is a razor-thin margin business, where every cent saved on cost is important and ROI is less than 3 years
• Availability: Cash systems and lighting must be continuously operated
• Lighting: Specialist and additional lighting to enable sales
• Customers comfort and security: Customers’ environmental comfort and feeling of security boost sales
• Energy efficiency for refrigeration:  Refrigeration, the n° 1 process for food retail, is consuming 35 to 50% of the total energy, with little being done to reduce usage and save energy
• Environmental efforts:  Retailers need to be seen as environmentally friendly by their customers
• Regulations: Energy regulations strongly develop in more and more countries 
• Energy price optimization: Energy market liberalization leads to centrally purchase for multiple sites & countries
• Facility management:  Whenever possible, building Operation & Maintenance is preferred
• Retrofit: In Western countries, installed base approximately 20 years old, heavy retrofits are going on, with energy efficiency requirements 


What can Schneider Electric do?
 
• Reduce construction cost by using prefabricated and type tested equipment
• Reduce energy and operation costs by 5 to 20% with a 3-year ROI
• Improve your image: Green buildings, cold chain quality
• Secure controlled comfort for your customers
• Focus on your core business by outsourcing building services
• Get the benefits of increased skills by relying on building services specialists
• Optimise your core business by outsourcing building services to improve building operation, comfort and sales area availability

Source: http://www.schneider-electric.ca/sites/canada/en/solutions/retail/retail.page