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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]
Recession-hit retailers fight back with online charm offensive
News Supermarket giant Asda, for example, is already looking to streamline its own online shopping business. At the facility, the Asda workers who pick the goods for online orders won't have to share the... [20 May 2009]
The Hut buys its Zavvi savvy
News The Hut - which runs white label retail sites for 15 retailers including Asda, Dixons and Tesco, as well as its own-brand website selling products from entertainment to apparel - has bought Zavvi's brand, internet domain... [03 Mar 2009]
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]
Supermarkets serve up varied pace online
News ASDA.com came top with an average response time of 7.8 seconds when tested by more than 40,000 PCs with different dial-up and broadband connections over seven days. As online retail captures a growing share of the... [27 Aug 2008]
ASDA to kick start mobile pay-as-you-go price war?
News Supermarket chain ASDA says it is to slash its pay-as-you-go (PAYG) mobile phone rates from the start of September, potentially sparking a price war in the UK. ASDA Mobile's new price plan means... [21 Aug 2008]
Heather Jackson
CIO Profile She worked in IT for Burton Group where she was involved in the end-to-end redevelopment of key business systems, for George at ASDA as IT director, for Boots the chemist within IT development, and for Capital One as UK... [11 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 Matthews has... [17 Mar 2008]
Supermarket probe to trawl millions of emails
News The UK's Competition Commission may have to trawl through more than 12 million emails as part of its investigation into the treatment of suppliers by Asda and Tesco. Asda and Tesco, along with Morrisons... [20 Aug 2007]
L'Oréal gets business planning makeover
Case Study The UK arm of the cosmetics company is using Cognos Planning software to forecast which products customers - retail outlets such as Asda, Boots and Tesco - would be most interested in buying. One account manager produced... [19 Feb 2007]
Asda weighs in to online shopping war
News Asda has announced plans to expand its internet services in a bid to take on rivals Sainsbury's and Tesco, having originally been slow to embrace ecommerce. An Asda spokeswoman said 157 out of the total... [06 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.08.06
Round-Up In second place is Asda with a relatively paltry 16 per cent of the market and very little insight into its banana and loo roll revenues provided by comScore, who compiled these stats. The Round-Up's favourite statistic... [25 Aug 2006]
Tesco dominates net shopping with £2m loo rolls
News Its nearest rival, the Wal-Mart-owned Asda chain, took 16 per cent, with Sainsbury's following close behind with 14 per cent. Tesco clocked up an average delivery cost of more than £4, compared to Sainsbury's of around... [23 Aug 2006]
Carphone and NTL facing private equity bids?
News Carphone Warehouse declined to comment on the rumoured private equity offer led by Archie Norman, ex-Asda chairman and now at , who had previously attempted to buy rival mobile retailer Phones4U. Private equity firms are... [16 Aug 2006]
Analysis: CRM - get involved
Comment CRM had hit the buffers, and the whole area seemed to go quiet, with some big supermarkets such as Asda and Safeway canning their loyalty card programmes. Recent developments, though, do favour smaller players. [23 May 2006]
