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Major Retail Event Addresses Integrating Retail Stores, HQ, and Distribution
White Paper And Kliger-Weiss Infosystems (KWI) announced that more than 100 specialty retailers - including Benetton, Quicksilver, Swatch, Aerosoles, Kenneth Cole, and Etienne Aigner - were on board with a centralized management system developed by KWI on the... [14 Nov 2006]
Retailers to Customers: Oops, Never Mind
White Paper In March 2003 Royal Philips Electronics announced that it would provide Benetton, the retailer that has always marketed itself as socially conscientious, with RFID-enabled "Smart labels" to put in its clothing. [09 Nov 2006]
2003 Year in Review: Online Retailing and Web Marketing
White Paper In this webcast, you will learn key technologies that helped drive some of the most successful retail Web sites - from retailers like the Benetton Group, to manufacturers like Amway Corporation and also mixed B-to-B and B-to-C companies like... [11 Aug 2005]
Meeting Today's Retail Challenges With Enterprise Content Management
White Paper In this webcast, you will also learn why Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the choice of retailers like The Home Depot, Sears, Benetton and Corporate Express. Today's retailers must hone their efficiency in an era of shrinking margins. [07 Jul 2005]
Storm in a D-cup: Marks & Sparks expands RFID trials
News When fellow garment seller Benetton tried to tag women's lingerie, it was met with a storm of protest and the company eventually dropped the plans. Marks and Spencer has decided to take RFID technology into even more stores. [22 Feb 2005]
Retailer to put RFID chips in all clothing - but who is it?
News Katherine Albrecht, director of Caspian, said the precedents set by fellow clothes seller Benetton should serve as a warning. One clothing maker is planning to put RFID tracking tags on all its products from 2005 - but just who is the mystery shop? [24 Sep 2004]
Datatex and IBM AS/400 Link Textile Industry to Buyers via Internet
White Paper "The United Colors of Benetton" is not just a slogan, it is a description of the global presence of this textile producer, which is represented by 7,000 stores in 120 countries. Operating in a period when the textile industry is experiencing new... [10 Jul 2004]
VERITAS NetBackup DataCenter Enables Benetton Formula 1 to Employ a Robotic Device and DLT Media
White Paper In the fast-moving, multi-million-pound world of Formula 1 Grand Prix motor racing, having access to mission-critical data plays a vital part in ensuring that things run smoothly. The network comprises two parts. [24 Feb 2004]
5 years ago... BA moves to high-tech cargo centre
News However, when Benetton proposed something similar to track sweatshirts from factory to store it came up against serious opposition. 09.01.99: British Airways (BA) is to move into its new cargo handling centre at Heathrow from this month. [09 Jan 2004]
Re:Viewing 2003 - Privacy and monitoring
News The start of the year saw several big brand names opt to put the tags - which allow consumers or every day objects to be tracked at close range in order to enable shopper behaviour or stock levels to be monitored - on various goods, including... [23 Dec 2003]
MIT bows out of controversial RFID tag research
News She called for worldwide boycotts of clothing retailer Benetton and Gillette after each discussed plans to put RFID chips or "tags" on their products. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is ending a four-year collaboration with dozens... [24 Oct 2003]
Philips adds 'off switch' to RFID tags
News Earlier this year, US-based privacy group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering lashed out at Benetton and called for a worldwide boycott soon after plans to use RFID tags were announced by the clothing maker. [06 May 2003]
Has Benetton taken a 'chips in clothes' U-turn?
News Benetton has distanced itself from reports that it was to use radio tags in its clothes products, in a move which privacy groups are hailing as a victory but one which Dutch electronics giant Philips, who was set to provide the technology, will... [07 Apr 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.03
Comment For example, as Wired said this week, the technology could enable Benetton to store your purchase profile; if you were to go into a shop and buy something, the shop assistant would be able to access your records and say 'Last time you were here... [14 Mar 2003]
Benetton to track clothing with ID chips
News Retail clothing chain Benetton will soon add technology to its garments that allows for real-time tracking of its inventory. Philips Semiconductor on Tuesday announced that it has provided partners with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips... [12 Mar 2003]
