Sponsors
Demonstrate your leadership and get exposure for your company’s brand at RCC’s Sustainability Conference.
Contact RCC Sponsorship at rccsponsorship@retailcouncil.org for more information.
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Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA)
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EPRA/Recycle My Electronics is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization that operates regulated electronic recycling programs across Canada. Our various programs facilitate the jurisdictional compliance requirements of our Stewards (industry manufacturers, retailers, distributors and other suppliers of regulated electronic products) as well as address electronic recycling needs of consumers and businesses across the nation. EPRA/Recycle My Electronics programs work across diverse regulatory landscapes and challenging logistical backdrops, to ensure materials are collected, recycled and handled in a safe, secure and environmentally sound manner. EPRA/Recycle My Electronics supports our Stewards, to best manage and fulfill their objectives in contributing to their circular economy objectives towards environmental conservation.
Platinum
Bruce Power
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Bruce Power is an electricity company based in Bruce County, Ontario. We are powered by our people. Our 4,200 employees are the foundation of our accomplishments and are proud of the role they play in safely delivering clean, reliable nuclear power to families and businesses across the province and life-saving medical isotopes around the world. Bruce Power has worked hard to build strong roots in Ontario and is committed to protecting the environment and supporting the communities in which we live. Formed in 2001, Bruce Power is a Canadian-owned partnership of TC Energy, OMERS, the Power Workers’ Union and The Society of United Professionals. Learn more at www.brucepower.com and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
Reverse Logistics Group
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The Reverse Logistics Group (RLG) is a global tech-enabled, asset-light organization with scalable platforms that connect all stakeholders within the reverse logistics value chain. As an enabler for retailers, RLG monitors and provides compliance services to customers across 80 countries globally. We addresses international challenges in product and material returns through technology to generate value and ensure regulatory compliance on a global scale. We partner with manufacturers, retailers, and government organizations to provide new levels of business intelligence, resource efficiency, and customer satisfaction. As part of the Reconomy Group, RLG partners with global specialists to outsource services driving the Circular Economy. We ensure regulatory compliance based on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) concept and use data-driven solutions to help our partners achieve cost efficiency and new levels of resource efficiency to satisfy high standards of the new green economy.
Schneider Electric
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Schneider Electric is an #ImpactCompany that provides energy and automation solutions to drive efficiency and sustainability. With over 128,000 employees across 100 countries, Schneider Electric’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for everyone, everywhere. Schneider Electric combines world-leading digital technologies, real-time automation, software and services into integrated solutions for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure and industries. We call this Life Is On. Learn more at www.se.com/ca
Affiliate Association Partner
Canadian Beverage Association
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The Canadian Beverage Association is the proactive voice across Canada for the non-alcoholic refreshment beverage sector.For over 80 years the CBA has been representing a broad spectrum of brands and companies that manufacture and distribute the majority of non-alcoholic refreshment beverages consumed in Canada. Our members include small family businesses and the biggest, most recognizable brands in the beverage industry.
Together with our members, the CBA advocates for a Canadian business environment that recognizes the leadership of the industry where the sector can continue to grow, innovate and prosper in a sustainable and socially responsible manner.
Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada
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Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada (FHCP) is the leading Canadian voice representing companies, large and small, that provide access to the food, health, and consumer products Canadians rely on every day. Our members are proud to make and distribute products that are an integral part of our daily lives—the products that are fixtures in kitchens, pantries, and medicine cabinets around the country. We help our members by advocating for a business environment that supports the competitiveness of our sector so that Canadians have choice and ready access to safe and innovative products. Please visit us at www.fhcp.ca to learn more.
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Silver
Oongalee
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Oongalee is a Canadian media and technology company based in Toronto, Ontario. Its patented tabletop charging Gateways are designed to keep everyone’s phone charged while providing a high-definition portal to businesses and its services through digital advertising. Oongalee’s advertising network provides a completely unique platform. The company’s focus around impression time and targeted reach ensures that brands are recognized and remembered and its exclusive restaurant network provides uncomparable exposure. Oongalee’s charging Gateway provides the ultimate phone charging solution for diners while offering a revolutionary platform for advertisers to reach people intimately and meaningfully like never before, redefining how brands speak to the masses.
Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/oongalee
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Alberta Recycling Management Authority (ARMA)
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Alberta Recycling Management Authority (ARMA) is a not-for-profit association responsible for managing Alberta’s electronics, paint, tires, and used oil recycling stewardship programs, and is the administration and oversight authority of Alberta’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulation. As a Delegated Administrative Organization, ARMA is accountable to the Government of Alberta Minister of Environment and Protected Areas through its Business Plan and Annual Report and is guided by its Board of Directors. Working from a strong foundation of over 30 years, ARMA is as committed as ever to fulfilling our vision of Inspiring A Future Without Waste and building a strong, robust circular economy in Alberta.
Aura
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At Aura, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the packaging market and pioneer global change. Through our blend of experienced consultancy and pioneering technology, we are the reference point for global sustainable packaging, helping major retailers, brands and packaging manufacturers to make insight-led decisions on materials, design, legislation, compliance and recyclability.
Our market-leading solution e-halo is the leading global packaging software program for capturing, interpreting and transmitting live, accurate packaging data. Trusted by the world’s largest e-tailer and retailer, it futureproofs packaging against materials that are undesirable or banned and ensures ‘right first time packaging’ to minimize fees and ensure compliance.
Flipp
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Flipp is a technology platform that is reinventing the digital shopping experience. The largest retailers, brands, and digital publishers in North America use the Flipp platform to curate and distribute digital merchandising experiences to millions of highly-engaged shoppers every day. For shoppers, Flipp helps provide for their families by making life more affordable. By delivering local savings and deal content, Flipp makes the planning process seamless, saving shoppers up to $45 a week. In 2022, Flipp acquired reebee in Canada, expanding reach on App to over 5 million monthly shoppers.
Product Care Recycling
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Product Care Recycling is a federally incorporated industry funded not-for-profit organization that provides recycling solutions for post-consumer paint, household hazardous waste, lighting products, and alarms on behalf of its members. Since 1994, Product Care has encouraged consumers to reduce their waste and reuse when possible, and to return unwanted products to a recycling location to ensure they are managed responsibly at their end-of-life. With thousands of recycling locations offering free product drop off across Canada, Product Care makes recycling accessible and diverts post-consumer products from landfills and waterways. For more information about Product Care’s recycling programs or to find a recycling location, visit productcare.org.
Event Level
Bullfrog Power
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Bullfrog Power, an Envest company, is Canada’s leading green energy provider. Bullfrog empowers thousands of businesses and households to reduce their environmental impact and help transform North America’s energy systems by choosing green electricity, green natural gas, and green fuel.
Bullfrog also offers power purchase agreement solutions that enable organizations across Canada to contract directly with renewable energy producers and make new wind and solar projects viable.
As a Certified B Corporation, Bullfrog Power meets higher standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
Visit bullfrogpower.com to see how our sustainability solutions can power the future of your business, or join the bullfrogpowered community online on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Machinex
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Technology and Solutions Provider for Collecting Refundable Containers.
Major Appliance Recycling Roundtable (MARR)
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The Major Appliance Recycling Roundtable (MARR) is a not-for-profit stewardship agency created to implement and operate a stewardship plan for end-of-life major household appliances in the province of British Columbia on behalf of the major appliance producers who are obligated under the BC Recycling Regulation. MARR acts as the participant retailer’s agent to fulfill their obligations under the British Columbia Recycling Regulation.
Soles4Souls Canada
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Soles4Souls Canada turns shoes and clothing into educational and economic opportunities. Our programs, 4Opportunity and 4Relief aim to make a positive difference on the planet and in people’s economic, educational, physical, and psychosocial well-being. Together with our supporters, more than 2.1 million pairs of shoes and pieces of clothing have helped create opportunities for people across the world. Soles4Souls Canada is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Visit soles4soulscanada.org for more information.
Media Partners
Retail Insider
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Retail Insider is Canada’s number one source for retail news and insight, featuring original stories, headlines from around the web, and in-depth analysis into the Canadian retail industry.
The Voice of Retail Podcast
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The Voice of RetailTM is a twice-weekly podcast hosted by retail pioneer, senior retail advisor and keynote speaker Michael LeBlanc and produced in conjunction with Retail Council of Canada.
Member Benefits Partners
BarterPay
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BarterPay has taken the age-old practice of one-to-one bartering and transformed it into a one-to-many organized system where thousands of businesses are converting their unsold time and space and idle inventory into what they need and conserving their hard-earned cash. Retailers can now obtain things like printing, advertising, construction, web development, leasehold improvements, signage, and more by trading their excess inventory at full retail value.
Chase
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For over 30 years, Chase® Merchant Services has been committed to providing businesses with safe, reliable and secure payment solutions. Chase Merchant Services has experience delivering solutions for Canada’s businesses and will work with you one-on-one to help choose competitive options for your business, understand the costs associated with payment processing, and provide innovative solutions unique to your needs.
RetailCare
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Retail Council of Canada (RCC), in collaboration with health benefits experts – Producers Group, have created RetailCare, an affordable, best-in-class employee health and wellness benefits program.
Discover how easy it can be to offer your employees and their families the added advantage of this kind of support and, in the process, improve your ability to attract and retain happy, productive retail staff.
ShipTime
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ShipTime is a one stop shop for all things shipping. With ShipTime, RCC members can compare shipping rates with our easy-to-use multi courier program while accessing steep discounts automatically.