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Olivier's Lounge PDF Print E-mail

Olivier’s Lounge opened its doors in September 2009 in the beautiful surroundings of Wandsworth Commons, London.  This high-end fashion boutique endeavours to offers its customers a relaxing and different shopping experience in the comfort of “Olivier’s Lounge”.  Customers are given personal attention from highly trained and efficient members of staff, under the attentive eyes of co-owner Olivier Lievre and right-hand lady, Joanne Beauchemin.  


Olivier has worked in fashion and footwear for a number of years.  As well as retailing, Olivier together with partner Mark Bouman, wholesale Audley in the UK, Ireland and Scandanavia.  Olivier has worked with a number of different point of sale and stock control systems throughout his colourful career.  Olivier had a very good idea of what he wanted from a system and spent time in ensuring that the solution met with his requirements.  The chosen application was RTL’s Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System.  We find out why.

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Step Ahead Case Study PDF Print E-mail

Step Ahead of South Africa operates RTL's RMS Solution

Step Ahead is a family run business, which started from selling size 4 sample shoes out of a car boot to the 18 store business it is today.  The 18 stores are spread throughout Johannesburg, South Africa.  Step Ahead has established itself as a leading up-market ladies' footwear retailer.

Step Ahead prides itself on excellent customer service and aims to continue to exceed customers' expectations and when looking for an IT company to work with, this was of paramount importance.  Retail Technology Limited was awarded the Step Ahead contract for the implementation of Microsoft Dynamic’s Retail Management System (RMS) throughout our stores.

We caught up with one of the company directors, Greg Holding to find out what he thought about Retail Technology Limited, the software they offer and an overall view of the company, and this is what he had to say.

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Leonard Coombe Master Saddlers PDF Print E-mail

Leonard Coombe Master Saddlers is a family run equestrian and country clothing shop, which has been established for over 200 years.  They are stockists of a wide range of riding apparel, country clothing, and equine tack.  Leonard Coombe recently changed their EPoS and stock control system to a solution provided by Retail Technology Limited.  I recently went back to speak to Edith Learmouth and Jo Ligthelm to find out how it all went.  

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John Ives Footwear PDF Print E-mail

During late Spring 2009, independent shoe retailer John Ives of Woodbridge in Suffolk turned to Retail Technology Limited for the installation of their retail management system. David Ives, the person in charge, was very open when he talked to us some five months after having gone "live". We were interested to learn how David perceived the process and how he is benefitting from now having merchandising information at hand.

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