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Whether you’re an independent retailer, or operate a large retail centre in the UK, facility management is essential for creating a safe, friendly, and sustainable environment for employees and customers alike. Retail facilities management creates a welcoming, reassuring feel that helps showcase your brand, ensuring paying customers will enjoy their shopping experience and keep returning, time after time.

Retail facilities management services from Q3, include cleaning floors, servicing bathrooms, optimising lighting, fast technical response and providing friendly security guards. All these are designed to enhance the retail space, positively influence customers’ perceptions by helping to create a great customer experience and drive footfall.

Quality customer experience is central to the success of any retail operation, whether it be a shopping centre or an individual, specialist store. At Q3, we love this fast-moving, dynamic environment, the customer focus and the relentless need to drive footfall. We believe that your customer should be our customer too and so we adopt the same customer-centric approach to delivering our services. And we measure our success of our service through increased footfall and elevating your retail facility so it becomes the go-to retail destination.

Where we operate

Q3 operates across the gamut of retail environments, tailoring its delivery model to suit the specific demands of the site, its customers and its location. These include:

  • Shopping centre Facility Management
  • Supermarket Facility Management
  • Individual shop Facility Management
  • Out-of-town retail park Facility Management
  • Retail shed and warehouse Facility Management
  • Convenience store Facility Management
  • Fast food outlet and hospitality and destination Facility Management
  • Logistics and retail distribution centre Facility Management

Tailored Services for your Retail Business

We will work with you to provide a tailored service that’s right for your business, whether that be a single service, such as cleaning or security, or a bundled, multi-service, retail facility management solution. Whatever your choice, it will be underpinned by Q3’s rigorous approach to ensuring safety, legal compliance, security, hygiene, comfort, enjoyment and optimising the efficiency of your retail space.

No one retail space is like another, so we reflect that by designing the retail facility management services specifically around your business. We also adopt a sustainable approach to our retail FM activities using energy efficient equipment, environmentally friendly cleaning chemicals and ensuring efficient operation of HVAC equipment and lighting.

One of our first retail facilities management contracts was a shopping centre and from then, we’ve built a name for excellence, reliability, professionalism and attention to detail.

All our retail FM teams are well trained, hold the correct qualifications, and are motivated, appreciated and properly rewarded. They will deliver quality across a range of hard and soft services, to keep your retail facility running tip-top, including:

Why is Facility Management Important for Retail?

Providing a Facilities Management service to retailers is much more than keeping places clean and presentable. There are so many other benefits:

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Enhancing customer experience and increasing footfall

A clean, well-run store that’s welcoming, well-lit and comfortable adds to a positive shopping experience, increases footfall and encourages customers to spend.

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Allowing you to focus on your main activity – retail!

Outsourcing retail FM services allows you to bring your focus 100% onto what’s important to you – selling to customers, knowing that all the peripheral stuff is safely taken care of.

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Driving cost effectiveness

Outsourcing to an FM retail specialist will almost certainly bring cost savings because FM is our core skillset and inevitably, we can be more efficient and productive than in-house teams.

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Providing expert support and ensuring compliance

The safety and wellbeing of both staff and customers are your responsibility when they occupy your retail space. We’ll implement stronger processes, identify changes in legislation, and introduce new technologies and techniques to ensure that every aspect of building compliance is in order, eliminating the possibility of incidents and legal action.

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Reducing downtime

A planned and pro-active approach to maintenance of plant and equipment and shop infrastructure, as well as innovative cleaning strategies, will ensure that you won’t have disruption to any part of your retail area during opening hours.

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Providing expert support

Your expert retail facility management provider will implement better processes, identify changes in legislation, and introduce new technologies and techniques from across the industry and embed them in your retail operation.

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Maintaining the high standards of appearance and environment

Q3’s teams don’t focus on the frequency of delivering FM tasks but on the desired outcomes… so, not how many times an area is cleaned, but whether it is clean 100% of the time. They embrace the culture and values of your organisation and become an integral part of your team, stepping up to deal with customer-related incidents and emergencies and ensuring a smooth-running, high-quality retail operation.

Why Choose Q3 for your Retail Facility Management Services?

Q3 knows the ropes when it comes to retail facility management services. In a sector facing so many economic and technological challenges and threats from online competition, let us take off some of the pressure.

You can trust in our experience and personalised approach to make a positive difference and impact on the everyday running of your operation. You’ll appreciate us, not as a cost, but as a value-add service that will help you achieve your corporate objectives and sales targets.

Contact us now to see how that might work for you.

interested in working with us?

Q3 is a great business to work with and to work for. We were set up by a group of people motivated by experience to create a very different type of Facilities Management company. Here you’ll find out more about us and how we work. If that’s not enough, contact us

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Testimonials

It’s been a fantastic journey so far and we have collectively achieved so much. Personally, I have learned a tremendous amount about the Q3 team and continue to do so.

Alistair Prisk, Office Support Manager Embark Group

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Best of luck Q3! You are an exceptional partner to us, so much so we don’t see you as a separate business and we treat your people as ours.

Phil Smith, Non-exec Director Embark Group

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If the client wants us to dress up in clown outfits and hand out balloons, that’s alright with me!

Paul O’Boyle, Operations manager Chelsea Harbour

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I just wanted to send in my thanks to Emma, who helped me on Saturday when my Mum passed out in front of TK Maxx. Emma was very friendly, calm and efficient, I don't know what I would have done without her. She was so professional and knew exactly what was needed I couldn't believe it when screens turned up and a wheel chair, all organised by Emma without making myself or especially my Mum feel stupid or an inconvenience. Please can you pass on mine, my Mum's and family's thanks to Emma, she is a star and a very kind person.

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