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It has been widely reported in the retail press that John Lewis has achieved record Christmas sales. Less widely known is that helping John Lewis to achieve some of these sales was its brand-new £45 million, state-of-the-art national distribution centre (NDC), designed and installed by KNAPP, which...
Brussels, Belgium - Delhaize Belgium has awarded Accenture a multi-year contract to support the implementation of an integrated supply chain enterprise resource planning platform. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Drawing on its global systems integration experience, Acce...
Retailer Delhaize Belgium is to implement an integrated supply chain ERP platform designed to enable it to standardise its supply chain transactions, increasing efficiency and productivity.
Delhaize Belgium is a subsidiary of Delhaize Group, the Belgian retailer which has 2,732 stores in s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wal-Mart Stores Inc plans to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions from its global supply chain within five years -- an effort the retailer said is equivalent to taking more than 3.8 million cars off the road for a year.
Wal-Mart will reach that goal by having its suppliers...
CA has announced that Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s top retailers, has implemented CA Spectrum Infrastructure Management as a further component in its use of CA NSM solutions.
The CA NSM solution consolidates the alarms from multiple element managers and directs these to the incident ma...
Empathica Inc., provider of Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions to some of the world’s most respected brands, announced that its survey of more than 7,200 consumers indicates women hold back on their spending more than men in a down economy.
While overall spending was down, with onl...
Screen Events Ltd today announced updates to the education programme and confirmed speakers for Screen Media Expo Europe, taking place at London’s Earls Court, 5-6 May 2010.
Devised in partnership with the Imperative Group, the two-day free learning programme is in full swing with a stel...
Company exhibits new Rishon Lezion store, measuring 34,000 square meters in size, which will open March 9. Revenue expected to total NIS 3 billion within three years, CEO says.
IKEA\'s second store in Israel, which will open March 9 in the central city of Rishon Lezion, will be the biggest in ...
Multi is going to improve its focus on only developing multi-functional shopping centers and inner-city revitalization projects with retail at their heart.
To assist this strategy Multi has sold its office portfolio to Timeless Investments BV. The 16 office projects and staff will transfer to T...
Retailers thirsting for customers during the Olympics are about to be awarded a gold-medal hangover.
Merchants whose businesses suffered during the Games say they anticipate little relief over the next few weeks as cash-drained consumers hold the line on spending.
New York City - Migros has selected Core Solutions to support the retailer’s growth in direct sourcing. Migros is Switzerland’s leading retailer and operates the country’s largest supermarket chain and other retail outlets including Globus department stores.
Carrefour plans to invest EUR200 million (USD292 million) in Bulgaria over the next five years, according to information of Greece\'s Capital.gr. Carrefour intends to open 20 stores in the country, unnamed sources reported on Investor.bg said. ...
Nestlé, the Swiss food giant, posted a double-digit increase in its advertising expenditure last year, and plans to further heighten its investment in this area in 2010.
The owner of Nespresso and Nescafé posted sales of 107.6 billion Swiss francs
($100.1bn; €73.5bn; £64.6bn) in ...
Swiss retailer Migros has announced that it is supporting a barcode scanning device for visually impaired consumers that reads aloud the name and quantities of a product. The retailer, which predominately sells private labels, provides the product data of 50,000 items.
Ahold\'s Albert Heijn has started rolling out its new non-food departments in the Netherlands, with the implementation in 46 larger stores over the next 12 weeks, including all 30 XL outlets.
The new range consists of more than 1,200 new products under the Albert Heijn private label. The...
MSC Home Terminal, the largest container terminal in the port of Antwerp, is a 50/50 joint venture between PSA (Port of Singapore Authorities) and MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company). Located at the Delwaide dock in Antwerp, it is the most important North European hub for MSC. The terminal’s vita...
Zebra Performance class card printers are built to deliver reliability and performance for high-volume card production. Now the most popular of Zebra’s card printers—the P330i™, P330m™ and P430i™—offer more features and better performance to provide best-in-class card printers. The follo...
DS6878-HC cordless bar code scanner inhibits the spread of germs, extends mobility and provides real-time information at the point of care
Motorola announced its newest advanced data capture solution for healthcare – the DS6878-HC cordless 2D imager. The DS6878-HC imager extends the acces...
Multi-purpose desktop printers at affordable prices with SATO’s dependable performance and renowned durability
SATO, a pioneer in the Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) industry and a leader in barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, announced today the introd...
New technology changed Wet Seal’s price markdown and receiving processes from a nightmare to a dream
New technology changed Wet Seal’s price markdown and receiving processes from a nightmare to a dream. Ron Hunt, Senior Manager of Operations for Wet Seal, a specialty retailer with appro...
Chicago - U.K.-based kitchen and homeware retailer Lakeland is implementing Retail Enterprise Suite from global information technology solutions and services company Episys to improve its in-store signage across the chain’s portfolio.
The system will manage in-store promotions more effect...
Go digital with your messaging using the 32\" NEC MultiSync LCD3215, commercial-grade LCD display that provides a cost-conscious solution for digital signage applications.
This model features a public display-grade panel that protects against permanent image retention, and a full selecti...
Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NPDT) (NDT) announced today that it has launched a comprehensive co-marketing program with Ingram Micro to market and sell its newly released N37B rugged military handheld mobile computer which has leading edge options such as a RFID reader with Hitachi Sec...
HP unveiled technology solutions for the retail sector and small and medium businesses; designed to cut costs and enhance customer experience, reports South Asia Mail.
The retail technologies include touch-enabled personal computers, point-of-sale (POS) systems, and LCD digital signages wit...
MMD, the company behind Philips-branded LCD monitors and public signage solutions, announced in a press release the launch of its new Smart Insert solution at this year’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE).
The Smart Insert is a provision at the back of a display which allows a small-form-fa...
New York City - The Limited has deployed Torex Retail Holdings’ Torex Retail POS across the company’s national network of women\'s specialty stores. The project includes the rollout of Torex Retail POS software on 750 IBM touch-screen terminals across 228 locations, and a fixed cost maintenanc...
VENTURA, Calif. - NewLeads, Inc. announces the launch of their innovative \"show order system\" (SOS), a new product used by exhibitors for point-of-sale and order taking at B2B tradeshows and B2C events. SOS is a rapid deployment software system enabling exhibitors to sell items in their booth...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Emporos is announcing e2, a SaaS-supported point of sale (POS) solution at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society\'s annual conference in Atlanta on March 1. This cross-platform POS system can run outpatient pharmacies, gift shops, cafeterias,...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Emporos is announcing e2, a SaaS-supported point of sale (POS) solution at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society\'s annual conference in Atlanta on March 1. This cross-platform POS system can run outpatient pharmacies, gift shops, cafeterias,...
There are people who believe that cash and coins are obsolete -- someday, futurists claim, all money will be virtual. Some companies are already preparing for a transition by replacing retail cash registers with mobile devices.
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