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Martec International Ltd helps its clients improve business performance by directly impacting sales growth, gross margin achievement, expense management, inventory and selling space productivity, and free cash flow.
We do this by providing training services and solutions to retailers, consumer goods manufacturers and third-party companies supplying them, such as accountants, consultants, technology companies and third-party logistics providers. We specialise in retail operational skills and related subjects, focused to improve learners’ skill levels and career potential, and to deliver the benefits listed above.
Learning Interventions We Provide
Our service package includes:
| A portfolio of approximately 40 classes, most of which are E-learning. You can review our core classportfolio here. Every class has a Mastery Test and certificate on completion. |
| All our classes are support by our Consumer Goods and Retail Industry Knowledge Bank. You can learn more about this here. |
| Live instructor webinars, some to convey knowledge and give learners a chance to interact with an instructor, and some to practice groups of people in more complex exercises. |
| In some case, we also email individual exercises to learners to help them further practice their skills. |
How Do you Buy our Classes?
Our classes can be purchased by individuals through our online shop. Prices can be shown in £, €, or US $ by selecting the appropriate currency.
Our classes are also organised into Learning Paths and you can buy a complete learning path at a discount. A learning path is a specific recommended curriculum for a job role. For example, there are separate learning paths for Merchandise Assistant, Assistant Merchandiser, Merchandiser, Merchandise Planner and Merchandise Manager. You can use these as a guide to help you plan your needs or you can ask us for assistance (free of charge).
Classes bought through the web site are run on our Learning Management System. Some clients buy a corporate licence for a large number of people, which are most often run on their internal computer systems.
As we progress with our web site upgrade, we will publish details of all our learning paths on this site. In the meantime, please ask us about your specific interests.
Upskilling and Reskilling
If you are planning an upskilling and reskilling project for a whole department, or the whole company, please review our upskilling and reskilling pages starting here.
You can get a quick overview of our approach to upskilling and reskilling by watching this three-minute video.
Why Choose Martec?
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We build content that recognises the changes AI is bringing to the retail and consumer goods industry and also embodies the deep retail knowledge gained over many years of hard-won industry experience. |
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We survey a sample of our learners and in the four questions requiring numerical scores, they rank us 86% or 87% on each question from over 12,000 surveys. Our net promoter score is 55%. |
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With over 40 classes covering Buying and Merchandising, Store Operations, E-Commerce and Omni-Channel Retailing, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Marketing and HR, we have yet to find another provider covering the same scale of coverage. |
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Our clients come back again and again. |
You can learn more about how we track our performance here.
Our training portfolio is all developed by experienced former retailers each with at least 10 years retail experience, having held at least one significant management position. The table below summarises the functional areas in our client base where we provide skills training.
Comments on The Table Above
- We teach IT people the business process knowledge they need in the functional areas listed, to help them do the best possible job on solutions development and implementation for their customer departments.
- We do teach industry knowledge and how to use it to sell and market more successfully to the functional areas shown.
- For consultants, accounting firms and technology companies we teach the core processes their clients use so they can participate in implementation projects on at least equal terms.
- Third party logistics companies will benefit from the Sales & Marketing content in the Accountants, Consultants and Technology Vendors columns and the Warehouse Operations and Management Content in the Supply Chain Professionals learning path.
Customer Testimonials
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"In a world with AI changing all the rules, upskilling our people’s industry knowledge has become even more critical. It’s important to Retail Consult that our project teams can design and configure solutions for retailers that really address their problems. We have worked with Martec for several years as Retail Consult and our leadership team for years before that. We value their deep industry knowledge, their product and service range, retail specific learning paths that align well with our customers’ needs, and their flexibility when things need to change. Martec helps us be a market leader in retail systems design and implementation." Ricardo Fereira, Head of Talent and Capacity |
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"We have a long-standing relationship with Martec and they are our prime provider of online Merchandise courses. Their courses are comprehensive. Additionally, the hands on activities during the webinar sessions are challenging and Brian effectively walks the participants through the learning objectives of the activities." Senior Learning & Development Specialist |
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"We decided to go with Martec for the convenience, having everything in one place. I was targeting entry-level employees. What's needed for them is basically fundamentals. The learning path we enrolled in through Martec was exactly that." Dr. Ahmed E, Training Program Manager |
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"The offering is very good... The content from Martec is very rich and does reflect a global approach… Brian gets it. He knows the content. He knows how it works." Aston M, Chief People Officer |
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"Great summary of the industry specifics and trends. It gives an understanding of the high-level processes. Great basis for working with customers in the industry!" Eva H, SAP, a global leader in enterprise application software |
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"Very good starting point for industry education" Saikat B, IBM, a major multinational technology company |
News from Martec
Industry Knowledge is Essential for AI Success
Many technology vendors are de-prioritising industry training to free up budgets to invest more heavily in AI skills training and it is a mistake – a huge mistake. A recent McKinsey survey said that 70% of all AI projects have no impact at all on EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes). Of the 30% that do, it gave no analysis of how many made a significant impact, some did, but a number were probably small beer. Other reports have...
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