My name is Adrian Bertschinger, a managing executive at Accenture in South Africa in our Products group.
My primary focus over the past seven years has been in the retail sector where I have worked with a variety of clients to successfully deliver a number of large-scale change programmes. The influence of Accenture's retail industry group stretches around the globe and extends to every segment of the industry, including department stores, mass merchants, specialty retailers, grocery stores and convenience stores.
We work with retailers around the world to deliver high performance and create sustainable top- and bottom-line growth. Driving shareholder value is what we're all about.
We recognise the significance of focusing on your core business while at the same time planning and executing strategies to achieve growth in the future. We help retailers strike this careful balance, bringing innovative ideas to help you accelerate your current and future visions for growth. We believe that our unique, value-based approach combines innovative new business methods with breakthrough analytic tools to transform key areas of your business, including customer relationship management, merchandising, promotions, supply chain, logistics, store operations and store format.
Globally, we are proud to have worked with 14 of the top 20 largest publicly held retailers in South Africa. We have strong relationships with all of the major retail organisations and include most of them in our client list. Our clients in South Africa speak highly of our joint working experience and we have a number of clients who have worked with us repeatedly over a lengthy period of time. We have a strong track record of delivery and enjoy partnering with our clients to jointly solve the business challenges facing them in this economic environment. When working with our South African retail clients, we are able to bring a rare combination of global best practices and an in-depth understanding of the South African market to bear on our projects. In this way we have delivered many world-class solutions to the unique South African market.
We believe that we have a laser focus on helping retailers achieve high performance. This is an exciting business to be part of—we are presented with exciting challenges every day.
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