The Co-operative’s own-brand vintage Champagne has scooped its second major accolade in a week after winning Gold at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA). The win means the convenience retailer’s own brand Les Pionniers Vintage 2004 Champagne has beaten competition from top-drawer Champagnes and rival retailers at the world’s two most influential wine awards, after it also potted Gold at the [...]
Europe’s fast moving consumer goods industry faces a bright future despite the current economic difficulties. That was the upbeat verdict of business leaders speaking at the ECR Europe annual conference in Brussels this week (14-15 May 2013). More than 600 delegates from over 30 countries – including as far a field as Singapore, Brazil, Canada and [...]
A new online business guide to help businesses in the retail sector survive a potential disaster has been launched by a leading UK cloud and IT service provider. Managing costly power outages, IT failure, flooding and even terrorism are some of the potentially damaging scenarios examined in the Would Your Business Survive? study produced by InTechnology. Designed to [...]
Food and grocery companies are being urged to shout about their successes from the rooftops. After a challenging start to the year, now is the time for retailers and manufacturers who have shown excellence in the face of adversity to celebrate their achievements, according to IGD – the industry’s research body. The organisation is holding [...]
The Skills Show, the UK’s largest skills and careers event, is offering ten student volunteers a rare opportunity to gain hands-on health and safety work experience at the 2013 event, which takes place at the NEC, Birmingham, from 14-16 November 2013. The opportunity is open to students within the retail sector who are already studying [...]
Workplace, a leading supplier of cloud-based workforce management solutions, is hosting the Leadership in Retail Workforce Management Customer Experience Global Summit 2013 in Chicago on 13 June 2013. The event promises to bring together leading retailers and industry experts to investigate and share how to turn effective employee engagement into a competitive advantage that impacts customer loyalty and the bottom line. [...]
RichRelevance, a company which provides over one billion product recommendations daily to consumers shopping some of the world’s largest retail brands including Wal-Mart, Sears, Target, Marks & Spencer and John Lewis, has acquired Avail, Europe’s largest provider of online merchandising platforms. Based in Sweden, Avail serves more than 80 retail clients, including Argos, La Redoute and [...]
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[24]7, the intuitive customer experience company, has acquired Shopalize, a comprehensive social commerce platform specialising in social sharing and social referral solutions. With its predictive experience platform, [24]7 leverages big data and predictive analytics to better understand customers and improve customer service and sales results for top global enterprises in multiple industries. With the acquisition of Shopalize, [...]
Royal Crown Cola is launching a Date Night marketing campaign in Asda stores in a bid to encourage more British couples to set quality time aside for each other as well exploring the state of the nation’s relationships. According to the company, it is also hoped the activity will resonate with the rising number of families [...]
FICO, a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, reports it is seeing growing momentum across industries in Europe for the FICOXpress Optimization Suite software. New European clients for FICO Xpress include retailer myToys.de, energy company GDF Suez, and the IT subsidiary company of the Groupement des Mousquetaires STIME; as well as leading European companies in mining, travel [...]
Professional network of sustainability professionals, 2degrees, has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Sustainability Champions Awards 2013. It shortlist includes a broad range of organisations both large and small, recognising innovation, best practice and outstanding contributions. Martin Chilcott, CEO of 2degrees, said: “Unlike other awards that are judged by a guest panel, the Sustainability Champions Awards [...]
Clarabridge, a leading provider of Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions for top brands, has launched its Clarabridge 6.0 solution at its C3 user conference in San Diego. The new release is designed to bring intelligence to every aspect of the customer experience journey, said Clarabridge. That includes listening, analysis, operations and measuring the Voice-of-the-Customer (VOC), the company [...]
PG Tips is sponsoring the ‘£1000 Song’ competition on Bauer Media UK’s Magic 105.4 radio station. The online and on-air campaign launched on 15 April 2013 and will run for 12 weeks until 7 July 2013. The £1000 song is revealed each morning during Magic Breakfast with Neil Fox (every weekday between 5am to 9am), with the first [...]
Retail electronic point-of-sale supplier, EPOS Group, has acquired RSA Systems, the Blackburn-based bakery point-of-sale and software specialist. The purchase of RSA Systems strengthens EPOS Group’s position in the British bakery retail market and is its second acquisition in this sector. In 2009, it bought Hampshire-based bakery POS provider WeCan solutions. RSA is well-known for its [...]
Profitero, a leader in competitive pricing intelligence, has announced its platform now monitors the prices and promotions of 50m products across 4,000 global retail websites every day, exceeding any other supplier in the industry and providing the largest product reach and retailer coverage globally. Profitero claims it offers the most advanced technical solution for retailers [...]