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RSS Wal-MartMicrosoft's new shops not falling far from Apple's tree
News Microsoft first announced its plan to enter the retail arena in February, when it hired David Porter, a Wal-Mart veteran. Turner, himself a former Wal-Mart exec, noted... [16 Jul 2009]
Smarter Supply Chain Utilization for the Retailer
White Paper Very few small and midsize retailers can compete with companies like Wal-Mart on price. However, while some go to the wall, many smaller retailers prosper alongside... [13 Jul 2009]
Angela Morrison
CIO Profile Prior to working for Sainsbury's, Morrison spent 10 years working for ASDA/Wal-Mart where she had a number of roles including IT director, creating and running ASDA’s online business, and, latterly,... [01 Jun 2009]
Enhance Your Supply Chain With RFID
White Paper When Wal-Mart required suppliers to track inventories with bar codes over a decade ago, the results revolutionized supply chain management practices. At the time, the goal of... [02 Mar 2009]
Microsoft chasing Apple with branded shops
News Turner, a former Wal-Mart Stores manager, will report to Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner. Microsoft announced plans Thursday to open its own chain of branded stores as it looks to catch up... [13 Feb 2009]
Retailers: Look to emerging markets
Comment In the same week that Europe's largest indoor shopping centre opened at Westfield in London (270 stores in 1.6 million square feet), the new Dubai Mall opened (1,200 stores over 3.8 million square feet) and... [03 Dec 2008]
Increasing Efficiency Through Integration
White Paper Publicis Groupe is a communications agency, which brings together specialists from advertising, relationship marketing and publishing to develop creative work for clients such as Unilever, Nestle, Renault, British Airways,... [02 Sep 2008]
ASDA to kick start mobile pay-as-you-go price war?
News The supermarket, which is owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart, revealed it is cutting prices in half following announcements from other leading phone networks of price hikes. Supermarket chain ASDA says it... [21 Aug 2008]
Microsoft pumps $100m into Novell Linux deal
News Microsoft and Novell said that customers taking advantage of the partnership include BMW, HSBC Holdings, Southwest Airlines and Wal-Mart. Microsoft on Wednesday extended its existing partnership with... [21 Aug 2008]
Successful Integration of Mega Retail Operation Positions Bailian Distribution Group as the "Wal-Mart" of China
White Paper The Bailian Group is China's largest retailer with 7,400 stores located throughout China. Bailian Distribution Group executives wanted to implement technology that would enable a competitive advantage, protect market share, and promote... [12 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! vs Icahn: War of words
News president Susan Decker trumpeted new ad partnerships with Wal-Mart Stores and others as Icahn, an activist investor, stepped up pressure on Yahoo! Yahoo! said on Wednesday that deal talks are ongoing... [05 Jun 2008]
Bernard Matthews streamlines order processes
News The company complies with the EDI standard of document interchange, but as a supplier of Wal-Mart-owned ASDA, it has to use that retailer's preferred system - AS2. Poultry products supplier Bernard... [17 Mar 2008]
How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study What do Wal-Mart use? Early suppliers emerged including IBM and Orange, for the telematics software and network coverage respectively, and Intec - a company better known for writing billing software for... [27 Nov 2007]
RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News Nabarro said he envisions his organisation one day going the way of the military and companies such as Wal-Mart, using RFID chips to track and trace those critical goods. Embedding electronic tags in... [11 Oct 2007]
Dell: Plenty of room to grow in retail and consumer space
News So far Dell has announced retail relationships with Wal-Mart and Sam's Club in the US, Carphone Warehouse in Europe and Bic Camera in Japan. The Wal-Mart experiment has... [11 Sep 2007]
