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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...
Morrison reported its last results this week before new chief executive Dalton Philips takes the helm, unfortunately after this magazine had gone to print. But it is safe to assume the figures from the fast-growing UK number four supermarket will not have disappointed, after data from supermarket re...
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...
Carrefour\'s (EPA:CA) China sales rose 16% year-on-year in 2009, 163.com reported citing Carrefour China President Eric Legros. Carrefour opened 22 new stores in China last year, bringing its total number of stores in China to 157, said the report.
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.
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...
Ingram Micro Inc. said it will offer a certificate in digital signage to help channel partners capitalize on the rapidly growing segment, which analysts peg anywhere from $1 billion to $3 billion worldwide, and pump up sales of the distributor’s folder of associated products and services.
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...
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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