SMILES Newsagents Corporate Stores
Rehab has been involved in retail training since 1979 and has been operating commercial retail stores since 2004. Under the brand name, SMILES Newsagents, Rehab Retail operates a convenience model of retailing. SMILES Newsagents offers a wide range of products and services depending on location and market demands.
Since opening the first shop at Allied Irish Bank, Rehab Retail has offered excellent service and achieved significant growth while remaining true to the mission of empowering people with disabilities.
Rehab Retail's latest SMILES Newsagents' store is located in Paddy Power Plc and is operated in partnership with Baxter Storey. The facility includes a wide range of products and services, including drinks, confectionery, dry cleaning, newspapers, cards, gifts, ice cream and a range of essential beauty and healthcare products.
All our partners, their staff and visitors have unique requirements. Therefore, we work in partnership to develop relationships which allow us to meet the unique and changing needs of customers and facilities' management teams at each site.
At corporate sites, staff and visitor numbers at shop locations can range from 500 to 5,000 people per day. Companies have engaged SMILES Newsagents not only because we provide a good quality and comprehensive service, but also as part of their ongoing corporate social responsibility strategy.
Our core objective involves providing integrated social employment opportunities in commercially-viable settings where employees with disabilities work alongside able-bodied people in an equal working environment. Today we have 29 staff working at nine locations on a schedule which ranges from 7am to 9.30pm, 7 days per week.
The distinguishing feature of our model of employment is a comprehensive system of support services, all geared to ensuring that employees, including those with disabilities, can take up work successfully and remain in employment.
With the assistance of employment specialists, mentors, co-workers and managers, the company strives to remove the barriers which people with disabilities face in the workplace so that they can maximise their skills and potential.
If you have a location which could benefit from a SMILES Newsagents, please give us a call on 01 205 7234 or email info@smilesnewsagents.ie
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