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Leader It appears that the economic doom and gloom of the past few months was forgotten, for a while at least, with retailers such as Marks & Spencer launching their latest sales on midnight Christmas Day, ensuring consumers would not stop shopping even...
[02 Jan 2008]
Leader For example, a notable number of those on the CIO50 list have benefited from the excellent training and mentorship at Marks & Spencer and Mars during the 1980s and 90s. It's the first of its type and something we intend to compile annually.
[07 Jun 2007]
CIO Analysis For example, a notable number of those on the CIO50 list have benefited from the excellent training and mentorship at Marks & Spencer and Mars during the 1980s and 90s. It's the first of its type and something we intend to compile annually.
[07 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile A rising young star in his field, the 39-year-old Darrell Stein landed the role of IT director at the famous UK high-street retailer Marks & Spencer in the summer of 2006 - something of a return to his roots as Stein originally started out his IT...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Following a series of management roles at Dixons, Aer Lingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks & Spencer in 1987 and rose up the ladder to become CIO for the retailer's North American business where he led a major change programme, replacing all their...
[06 Jun 2007]
Round-Up This time it was Marks & Spencer, after a laptop was stolen from a printing firm containing details of a reported 26,000 staff members. Although Marks & Spencer would be forgiven for not being delighted for us, the news of this latest high-profile...
[11 May 2007]
Comment Coming from an engineering background at university, Fraser joined Boots about 10 years ago as a programme manager, following stints at Marks & Spencer and Arthur Andersen. More recently the company has been facing fierce competition from the big...
[25 Apr 2007]
Comment There is still quite a dusty small town feel, apart from some familiar chain stores - the Reebok, Nike and Marks & Spencer - that are cropping up. The cab driver leans hard on the horn as we race past a motorbike upon which mum, dad and two small...
[04 Mar 2007]
Comment Darrell Stein, IT director at Marks & Spencer, said: "Technology doesn't give you competitive advantage in retail. I was at an event yesterday for CIOs, IT directors and sundry other heads of IT (in other words, this publication's key constituency...
[22 Nov 2006]
Comment It was a temporary IT job at RHM management services that started it all and Cameron has climbed the ladder steadily ever since at the likes of Diageo, Dixons, Guinness, Marks & Spencer and now Unilever.
[01 Sep 2005]
Leader Yesterday we wrote about Marks and Spencer going for an all-Microsoft mobile messaging environment, connecting Exchange servers to smart phones (from Qtek) running a Microsoft operating system. Attendees didn't talk about generic mobile email and...
[27 Jul 2005]
Comment For example, I'm already aware that Amazon.co.uk will be selling Marks & Spencer's underwear and have moved into the DVD rental space, but I had no idea easyGroup sold pizza, watches or men's cosmetics (though I'm really not sure about the wisdom...
[20 Apr 2005]
Leader It was announced this week that adopting RFID could slash airlines' $1bn lost luggage bill and Marks and Spencer is planning to extend its RFID trials. Marks and Spencer's behaviour would gladden the hearts of the EU working party.
[25 Feb 2005]
Comment Tesco has been trying the technology, as has Marks and Spencer, which has been playing with item-level tagging after an initial trial starting last October. But the underlying architecture needed to support the smart tags has been poorly understood...
[08 Sep 2004]
Comment Despite this, for many years Marks & Spencer, the UK's leading retailer, was able to make a virtue of selling mainly British-made goods. The French, by contrast, seem to have a high regard for their own products and to find all kinds of ways to...
[20 Jul 2004]
Round-Up Major retailers on both sides of the pond are trialling the chips now with Wal-Mart, House of Fraser, Marks and Spencer and Tesco all looking at how to use the technology. When one thinks of shopping malls one naturally thinks of zombies and not...
[21 May 2004]
Comment My third witness was Gareth Williams, formerly CIO at Marks & Spencer and then CEO of one of the largest privately owned businesses in the Middle East. And they like bad-mouthing IS, putting a negative spin on the numbers.
[07 Apr 2004]
Leader Such a fall isn't such a bad thing when we're talking about the nitty-gritty of real world trials at organisations such as Gillette, Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Wal-Mart. However, as with any cool technology, for most of the world to benefit from it...
[20 Feb 2004]
Comment With companies such as BA, BT, Marks and Spencer and plenty of others bossed by foreigners, it would be easy for me to forget the success of Britons abroad. Take a look at Silicon Valley and Hollywood and witness the number of us at the top, as...
[27 Aug 2003]
Comment However, over the past few weeks it has announced some promising contract wins with companies such as UK retailers Tesco and Marks & Spencer. Marks & Spencer This was followed by the departure of CEO Graham Wallace, who bet C&W's future on the IP...
[27 Feb 2003]
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