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News Up until this year, All Saints outsourced its accounting processes to a Birmingham-based accountant, but the retailer's financial controller Sally Lewis said the company had outgrown its ability to provide an adequate service. [23 Jan 2008]
Retailers count the online Xmas coffers
News John Lewis Direct head of web selling David Walmsley said: "Our sale started on Boxing Day and in the first four days of the sale we had double revenues compared to the previous year. Online sales reached £15.2bn in the UK in the last quarter of... [17 Jan 2008]
Record online sales in November
News In a statement, John Lewis Partnership head of web selling David Walmsley, said: "Christmas kicked in with a vengeance in November. Online shoppers spent a record £5.4bn last month, underlining the steady growth in retailing via the internet over... [20 Dec 2007]
UK to lead Xmas online shopping spree
News Forrester Research analyst Victoria Bracewell Lewis said the increase in revenues is largely down to increasing consumer confidence and familiarity with the internet. The UK will be Europe's biggest market for online shopping in the run up to... [24 Oct 2007]
Centrica lands Virgin CIO
News Energy company Centrica has appointed Virgin's Gareth Lewis as new group CIO. Lewis joins Centrica in November from Virgin where he has been group CIO for the holding company of all the Virgin brands since 2002. [17 Oct 2007]
Young targeted by "Revitalise IT" scheme
News Enterprises and academic institutions currently participating in the Revitalise IT initiative include Accenture, Apple, the BBC, Cisco, John Lewis, LogicaCMG, Microsoft and Vodafone, and City University London, Oxford Brookes University... [19 Sep 2007]
Vodafone offers unlimited music downloads
News Omnifone CEO Rob Lewis told silicon.com the service gives users flexibility to find music on the move and "not just when they're tied to the PC". Lewis - founder and CEO of silicon.com until its sale to CNET Networks in 2002 - added each track can... [10 Sep 2007]
Free muni wi-fi projects a pipe dream?
News Houston's chief information officer, Richard Lewis, also said the city is committed to building a wireless network. EarthLink's scaled-back municipal wi-fi business has jeopardised many US cities' plans to bring free or low-cost broadband to low... [03 Sep 2007]
Video: How to stop your best staff leaving
Video British Energy CIO Ian Campbell, UK government CIO John Suffolk, Virgin CIO Gareth Lewis, Associated Newspapers CIO Ian Cohen, Betfair CTO Rorie Devine and eSure CIO Mark Foulsham all reveal their top tips for staff retention. [17 Aug 2007]
Virgin signs multimillion pound C&W deal
News Virgin Group CIO Gareth Lewis - one of the UK's top 50 CIOs - said Virgin Group is a complex business made up of a diverse number of different companies each with very specific requirements, and that "Cable & Wireless gets this". [16 Aug 2007]
Tech sparks rapid rise in electricity bills
News Norman Swift, John Lewis Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said the proportion of budget taken up by energy and electricity costs is rising rapidly. The issue is not so much that electricity costs are rising - which they... [15 Aug 2007]
Retiring House of Fraser IT boss not being replaced
News At John Lewis, for example, the department store arm of John Lewis Partnership (JLP), the role of director of computing services, which focuses on systems shared by all JLP divisions, now reports directly to the group CFO, Marisa Cassoni, although... [01 Aug 2007]
silicon.com competition winner meets Lewis Hamilton
News Lucky silicon.com reader Bryan Smith met up with Brit F1 sensation Lewis Hamilton last Thursday for a spin around the famous Goodwood racing circuit. Competition winner Bryan Smith meets F1 World Championship leader, Lewis Hamilton. [31 Jul 2007]
Urban wireless networks set to surge
News Milton Keynes' network is based on this type of 'mixed' public-private model - it was launched by wireless comms company Briteyellow in partnership with Invest Milton Keynes - an arm of English Partnership, the government's development agency... [26 Jul 2007]
Competition: Win a day with Lewis Hamilton
News Send your answers to editorial@silicon.com, with a subject line marked 'Day with Lewis', by noon on Tuesday 24 July. For news about the winner - and his spin with Lewis Hamilton - click here. Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are two of the... [18 Jul 2007]
