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Promotions.
EXECUTIONAL is a UK shopping centre promotions agency supplying promotional staff, sign-up teams, sampling staff and costume characters to brands and their agencies for stands, kiosks and centre activations across the UK, since 2007.
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Types of shopping centre promotions staff we supply
Teams for atriums and kiosks.
Shopping centre promotions are brand activity inside a shopping centre, run by a briefed team: promotional stands, kiosks, sign-up drives, characters and sampling aimed at shoppers.
The roles centres most often host for promotions and centre activations, each adapted to the centre's rules. They draw on the same teams as our wider product sampling service.
Atrium activation teams
Staff for launches, competitions, giveaways and photo moments in the atrium. They draw shoppers in and point them to the store in the centre that stocks you. For tasting-led campaigns, see product sampling at shopping centres.
Kiosk and stand teams
Staff who run your unit through the trading day, start conversations with passers-by and keep to the key messages in your brief.
Live demonstrators
Repeated demonstrations through the shift for kitchenware, beauty tools and tech, inviting shoppers to have a go. More on our product demonstration staff.
Sign-up and enquiry teams
Details captured on your tablet or form for subscriptions, energy, finance and home improvement, where shoppers have time to sit down and talk.
Costume characters for families
Characters that draw families across an atrium, paired with a stand team. Centres often welcome them in school holidays. See costume characters.
Multi-centre campaign leads
One lead keeps each team on the same brief when a campaign visits several centres. They check each centre's requirements as dates approach.
How we brief our teams on each centre's rules
Paperwork ready, house rules learned.
Right to work and ID checked for every person. Employer's and Public Liability certificates ready for the centre's file, and risk assessments, food hygiene and DBS on request.
Staff learn your product and messages plus the centre's rules: where the team can stand, where it can't, and how to treat neighbouring retailers.
We handle PAYE, National Insurance and HR in-house, whether it is one atrium for a Saturday or a month of centres.
Geo-tagged check-ins at every centre and a 24/7 support line answered day and night.
The centre grants the space, we supply the team
The centre's space, your team.
A centre gives you weather-proof footfall and people who are browsing rather than rushing. That suits a longer demonstration or a proper taste. Weekends and school holidays carry most of the traffic, so most brands build their marketing strategy around those days.
Every centre is private land. The centre management team (the landlord) must approve the activity before a team can work there. It normally books the space, often through a commercialisation or promotions manager. You or your agency secure the space and we can advise. We supply and manage the people who work it.
We run shopping centre promotions nationwide
Regional centres to town-centre schemes.
Teams come from the staffing hub nearest each centre, across 40 hubs in the UK. Running in a centre not listed here? Tell us in your quote request.
Our compliance checks for centre teams
Insured and ready.
Centre campaigns we have staffed for brands
Centre campaigns we've staffed.
Atrium stands, demonstrations and character appearances in UK shopping centres, with the days and shifts covered. See all recent work →
Brands who book us for the next centre
Brands who booked the next centre.
How we select and book your centre team
From space confirmed to team in the centre.
Which centres, the space you've been offered or are booking, trading hours, days and staff per centre.
Each centre priced on its own line, so you can line it up against the space costs from each centre.
Staff picked from the hub nearest each centre, and the insurance and risk documents each centre asks for sent ahead.
A brief on your product and the centre's rules, optional training, and geo-tagged check-ins on the day.
Get a shopping centre promotions quote from us
Get a quote for shopping centre promotions.
Request a quote
Request your centre quote.
Share what you know. We'll recommend the team and prepare an itemised quote.
Centre permission and staffing questions we answer
Centre bookings, permission and staffing: your questions.
What are shopping centre promotions?
Shopping centre promotions are brand activity inside a shopping centre, run by a briefed team: promotional stands, kiosks, sign-up drives, characters and sampling aimed at shoppers. The centre approves and charges for the space, which you or your agency book; we supply and manage the people who run it on the day.
Who gives permission, and what will the centre ask from us?
The centre, as the landowner. Centre management decides what can run, where and when, and normally charges for the space; you or your agency book it. Centres typically ask for public liability insurance, a risk assessment, a description of the activity and stand footprint, hygiene certificates for food, and staff names and arrival times. We send our insurance and risk documents once the space is agreed.
When do centre promotions work best?
Saturdays, Sundays, school holidays and the weeks before Christmas carry the heaviest footfall. Many brands concentrate staff on those days rather than spreading them across quiet weekdays.
Do you supply staff for promotional kiosks and RMUs?
Yes. We staff kiosks and centre units run by the brand or agency. We don't provide the unit itself, stock or storage.
Can one campaign visit several centres?
Yes. Each centre is staffed from its nearest hub, or by one team that moves with the campaign if you want the same faces throughout. For tours that carry their own unit or vehicle, see experiential sampling roadshows.
Is this different from general promotional staffing?
It is the same people with a centre-specific brief. For promotional staff in any other setting, see our promotional staff page.
Which centres have you worked in?
We operate nationwide, in large regional centres and town-centre schemes across the UK, including Bluewater, the Trafford Centre, Trinity Leeds and St David's Cardiff.
What drives the cost?
Headcount, the centre's trading hours and the number of days, the roles booked (characters and demonstrators differ from sampling staff), transport and accommodation if the same team tours, and notice in peak weeks. Space charges come from the centre, not from us.