George collaboration portal cuts overseas costs
16th October 2009
George is using an online collaboration portal to deliver “George in a box” to Wal-mart’s businesses around the world. Read the article in which Kevin Rusling talks to Retail Week about how Concrete's Connect solution has brought about fast and tangible benefits.
Internet Retailing
March 2009
This months print publication of Internet Retailing features an in-depth article entitled "Power of the Crowd". In it Emma Herrod asks what empowered customers mean for product development, design and intellectual property. Concrete Connect is cited as a unique solution offering retailers a number of new and more efficient ways of working.
www.internetretailing.net
WebMission 2009
6th March 2009
Concrete has been selected as one of 20 innovative UK software companies to attend the WebMission09 event in San Francisco. From March 28th through April 2nd, we will be attending Silicon Valley to meet with leading software businesses and seasoned technology investors to gauge the strength of the Concrete offer Stateside.
The successful companies are short-listed by judges such as Doug Richard, Mike Butcher from TechCrunch and with input from the Web Mission sponsors. The sponsors include technology companies, media companies, financial and legal organizations. They are complemented by a host of Partners who provide specialist support to the event.
As Michael Birch, founder of Bebo, commented on Web Mission 08: "The Web Mission represents an amazing opportunity for the best of entrepreneurial UK talent to visit Silicon Valley and learn for themselves the differences that make the US a breeding ground for innovation and more importantly the successful execution of ideas."
LaunchLab
23rd October 2008
Read about how Tristan Rogers, managing director of Concrete Group, explains why he wanted to change an "ugly and expensive" industry, why self-belief is so important to small businesses and why it took him time to figure out what his business actually did.
LaunchLab.co.uk is the new and exciting website for people starting businesses. Whether you're starting up a business now or plan to in the future, LaunchLab.co.uk will guide you through the process and show you how to make the most of your new venture.
Brand Management - International Expansion
25th September 2008
Adopting franchise and licence strategies to break Eastern European and Middle East markets can have major drawbacks for control of brand.
Brand Management is a First City Media quartlerly publication with in-depth articles on the issues surrounding effective brand management.