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If you are a retailer, a consumer goods manufacturer, a logistics consultant, software provider, or materials handling vendor – or anyone connected to those areas – this is an important column.
About a year ago, we first noted in a small piece some changes to carton labeling requirement...
JDA Software launches local support and service center in China, positioning for \"substantial growth in the region.\" To meet local demand for anti-counterfeiting and channel integrity software, New Momentum, also started operations in China, the companies said in independent announcements.
Argos is deploying the Retalix yard management software system at its nine distribution centres across the UK to optimise resources and improve efficiencies in day-to-day operations.
The retailer has been using Retalix’s warehouse management system since 1998. The new system is designed t...
Checkpoint Systems, Inc. announced that through the OAT Foundation Suite, integrated with SAP solutions, customers can now integrate their real-time RFID data with SAP enterprise business processes.
The OAT Foundation Suite is developed and marketed by OATSystems, a division of Checkpoint Syste...
Leading global Microsoft Dynamics partner, Columbus IT announced the start of its operations in Qatar through a joint venture with the Ali Bin Ali Group. Columbus IT has already been operating in the Middle East through offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Dammam, Jeddah and Bahrain. The latest addi...
After years of breakneck expansion, retailers in China are scaling back and delaying their growth plans as the maturing market enters a new phase of consolidation fueled by slowing demand and fierce competition.
This new conservatism, far from alarming investors, is actually giving many pea...
Wal-Mart Stores has shortlisted top Indian tech firms, including TCS, Infosys and Wipro, for an outsourcing contract potentially worth Top Indian outsourcing cos
Cities that are IT hubs
up to $500 million over next few years, as the retailer seeks to award multiple contracts for manag...
Stricken German retail giant Arcandor held talks Sunday with rival Metro over a possible merger of their department store chains, after hopes of government aid looked dim, a Metro spokesman said.
The merger talks involved Arcandor chief executive Karl-Gerhard Eick and Metro chief Eckhard Co...
Sun Microsystems (Sun) was recently chosen by Al-Othaim Markets Co. to provide an information technology (IT) infrastructure to run the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). In addition, Sun will provide a comprehensive set of Oracle Retail merchandising, planning, supply chain, and stores applications for...
Chilean retailer La Polar LAP.SN said on Friday it had secured an option to buy a store in a mall in Colombia, a move that paves the way for its first foray outside Chile and into the wider Latin American market.
The option is on a store in the Centro Mayor shopping center in the Colombian ...
Bradesco, Brazil’s second-largest private sector bank, announced Friday that it has acquired Banco Ibi, the consumer finance arm of nationwide clothing retailer C&A.
Bradesco, which paid 1.4 billion reais ($700 million) worth of its own shares in the deal, also reached a 20-year agreement...
Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket group, is backing electric cars. The food retailer is to start providing charging facilities in its car parks for battery-powered vehicles.
The new initiative, which will start in London, could be rolled out nationally if it proves a success with cust...
Bharti Wal-Mart, an equal joint venture between world’s largest retailer Wal Mart and the Bharti Group that owns India’s largest telecom
company by sales, on Saturday said its first Indian cash and carry store will give up to 25% discount over the local wholesale market.
Leading jewellery retailer Joyalukkas opened its new showroom at LuLu Centre.
Indian Ambassador Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa inaugurated the outlet on Thursday.
The second showroom of the jewellery retail chain in Qatar, offers traditional to contemporary designs.
Brands such as Entice, Sparx, ...
Advancements in technology, a challenging economy, and savvy consumers are a few of the driving forces behind implementing new methods for gift and loyalty programs. Historically, loyalty marketing and gift card programs have been reserved for large retailers with big budgets and large staffs. Such ...
Bowling Green, KY - June 18, 2009 Pan-Oston, a leader in smart retail counter and checkout solutions for over 4 decades, is proud to make available, a simple kit that enables retailers, health-care providers, airlines, hotels, libraries, businesses, as well as government and private service organiza...
Retalix, a provider of software solutions for retailers and distributors, announced that K-VA-T Food Stores has selected Retalix Loyalty as its next-generation customer loyalty and promotions management system. The regional, family-owned supermarket chain operates more than 100 stores in Kentucky, V...
At this year\'s NACStech show, a conference that focuses on technology for the convenience and petroleum retail segment, PCI compliance was certainly top of mind for attendees, exhibitors and show management. Indeed, seven of the show\'s workshop sessions pertained to PCI.
Taiwan’s FamilyMart, one of the largest convenience store chains on the island, has installed more than 2,200 Wincor Nixdorf self-service kiosks, a milestone for both companies. Established in 1988, the Taiwan arm of Japanese convenience store giant FamilyMart first implemented Wincor Nixdorf\'s...
KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) and remote connectivity solutions vendor ATEN Technology Inc. released three new products recently during Interop Las Vegas.
The ATEN Media Distribution System (a digital signage solution that distributes high-quality video and audio content to up to 3,000 displays ov...
Oce, an international leader in digital document management, announces the U.S. preview of its Posterizer(TM: 65.23, 0, 0%) integrated signage solution at Oce booth #5450 during GlobalShop(R: 28.06, 0, 0%) 2009, March 23-25, in Las Vegas, NV. Convincing, coordinated and innovative signage can motiva...
During the middle of the 19th century, newspapers and magazines were read by only a small, literate minority. It was at that time that the first commercial mass communications medium emerged in Western Europe and North America. That new commercial mass medium was the department store.
Unicon Systems, developers of CCOTS™ mobile devices and scalable Systems-on-Display (SoD™) technology for mobile applications, today announced the delivery of a new Digital Signage System called Helios.
The Helios Digital Signage System is a first in its class – a cost-effective, feat...
Galleria Retail Technology Solutions today launched its automated Promotional Display Optimization™ solution, a new technology that enables retailers to generate thousands of store-specific end-cap display plans to optimize inventory for every promotion. With the ability to create automated plans ...
Retalix® (Nasdaq: RTLX) a global provider of software solutions for retailers and distributors, announced today that Roche Bros. Supermarkets, Inc., an 18-store regional grocer based in Wellesley Hills, Mass., has selected Retalix HQ/Store to replace its legacy pricing and store back office systems...
Aimed at the hospitality and general retail sectors Uniwell’s PurePOS software is set to bring new innovations and efficiencies to point of sale operations, the ease and speed of use PurePOS allows staff to focus on customers, taking orders, up-selling and efficiently deal with customer requests a...
Puregold, a leading hypermarket operator in the Philippines, is the first retailer in the country to begin installing TPLinux software across its point of sale (POS) and store server network. Puregold has ordered 2100 licenses from Wincor Nixdorf that will encompass its complete hypermarket network ...
CipherLab (www.cipherlab.com), a leading innovator in Automated Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) for the retail, warehouse and distribution markets, has been certified as a preferred vendor by BizTracker, a point of sale software provider. The CipherLab 1266, 1500, 1660, 8001 and 9471 handheld...
Best Buy, a global consumer electronics retailer, has adopted Wincor Nixdorf\'s New Store Opening solution to support its business in China.
The US-based consumer electronics retailer awarded Wincor Nixdorf with a contract to open six new stores in China, as part of its strategic expansio...
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