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Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment But because the European Parliament is currently promoting comparative advertising, where competitor goods or services need to be identified, the ruling came down on the side of the Comparative Advertising Directive. [16 Jul 2008]
Agentrics Standardizes on IBM Rational AppScan Software to Help Deliver Safe Web Applications to Large Retailers
White Paper Agentrics serves as the trusted agent for the retail and consumer goods industry by helping retailers, manufacturers and their trading partners optimize shared business processes. To maintain its strong reputation, Agentrics needed to incorporate... [11 Jul 2008]
Dell's IT Infrastructure Services, Desktops, and Notebooks Allow Global Consumer Packaged Goods Marketer Unilever to Support Staff Efficiency and Productivity With Business-Critical IT Services
White Paper Unilever is a multinational corporation that owns 400 consumer brands spanning a wide range of home, personal care, and food products. The outdated client technology and non-standard services inhibited flexibility, limited scalability, and created... [08 Jul 2008]
Data - The D in RFID
White Paper While the tech innovation RFID is revolutionalizing the retail & consumer goods industry, the need for clean product data is often ignored. This whitepaper discusses how clean and synchronized product information forms the base to a retail... [03 Jul 2008]
RFID in the Supply Chain: Improving Performance Through Greater Visibility
White Paper A special section focuses on the recently announced RFID compliance requirements in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. This whitepaper offers an overview of RFID technology advances and the most relevant technology standards, before exploring... [03 Jul 2008]
An e-Guide to Cyberfraud
White Paper Forrester Research, an Internet consulting company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, estimates that the consumer market will sell $18.2 billion worth of goods in 1999--twice 1998 figures. This e-guide examines the trends in Internet fraud: what to look... [03 Jul 2008]
Mobile payments to hit $300bn by 2013
News According to the report - entitled Mobile Payment Markets: Digital & Physical Goods 2008 - 2013 - the ticketing segment will represent more than 40 per cent of the global transaction value by 2013, and will be driven by consumer usage on rail, air... [01 Jul 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News Online shopping is continuing to grow steadily across many ranges in May but the lack of a home nations team in the Euro 2008 football championship means sales of electrical goods and alcohol has fallen by around 10 per cent in the UK. [20 Jun 2008]
ERP Revisited: Midsized Companies Achieving Best in Class Performance While Keeping Costs in Check
White Paper Download this white paper from Consumer Goods Technology to learn about SAP's new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions and how they can be precisely tailored to meet the needs of midsized companies across a wide range of CP verticals. [18 Jun 2008]
Jane Scott
CIO Profile She then extended her knowledge of the fast moving consumer goods sector when she moved to Coca-Cola & Schweppes and subsequently to The Coca-Cola Company. Jane Scott joined food service distributor 3663 in 2003 where she has developed the IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment Jane Scott, IT director at food services group 3663 learnt her trade on the graduate management training scheme at Mars after studying Mathematics, and then moved into the fast-moving consumer goods sector with Coca-Cola, spending many years... [11 Jun 2008]
Procter & Gamble in $650m network deal with BT
News Consumer packaged goods manufacturer Procter and Gamble (P&G) has signed a $650m deal for BT to manage its global communications network. The five-year contract will see BT provide and manage P&G's local and wide area network infrastructure across... [10 Jun 2008]
Colgate drives innovation through strategic focus on IT optimization
White Paper Major fast moving consumer goods enterprises such as Colgate operate in complex, dynamic markets, competing against both local and global rivals. In order to respond more quickly and cost effectively to new opportunities, Colgate-Palmolive needed... [31 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment For smaller brands, in particular, it also opens doors and enables them to make the most of their goods or services associations with bigger organisations. Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark holder, the consumer or the... [30 Apr 2008]
UK online spend up 50 per cent this year
News I think this growth will continue, although perhaps not at the rate we have seen, as shoppers get more comfortable with buying a wide range of goods over the internet. Capgemini UK Consumer products and retail team VP Anthoula Madden told silicon... [22 Apr 2008]
