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figleaves.com revamps website
News The underlying ecommerce suite for the new version of the site is supplied by ATG and allows the retailer to analyse customer buying behaviour to tweak the shopping experience. Online lingerie and nightwear retailer figleaves.com is set to relaunch... [16 Jul 2008]
Michel Khan
CIO Profile Michel Khan has headed up the IT of this eye-care retailer for the last 12 years. Before joining Specsavers, he was IT director at duty free retailer Allders International. In that time, he has won accolades for the company's supply chain and... [11 Jun 2008]
Mothercare buggy about new financials software
News Children's clothing and equipment retailer Mothercare has signed a contract with Coda to provide financials software and services. Alongside accounts, ecommerce, supply chain, sourcing and ranging facilities have also been consolidated to support... [27 Mar 2008]
Toy retailer entertains web upgrade
News Independent toy retailer The Entertainer has completed a website refresh and contracted ecommerce specialist Escalate Retail to provide a software suite for the back-end. The implementation cost just over £400,000, including overall hosting... [30 Jan 2008]
Woolworths boosts ecommerce functionality
News Mixed merchandise retailer Woolworths has built on its use of product reviews on its website with the development of an automatic recommendation engine. Woolworths online marketing manager Mark Batty said the retailer expects an uplift of online... [06 Dec 2007]
How Topshop.com survives the Kate Moss effect
News Clarke said the Arcadia site, which includes the retailer's seven brands - Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Outfit, Topman, Topshop and Wallis - was revamped 16 months ago and is being continually updated. [22 Nov 2007]
Online shoppers get savvy in run-up to Xmas
News Two in five said they would never go back to a retailer if they received poor customer service from its call centre when calling about a website problem.silicon.com Retail & Leisure The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive for customer service... [05 Nov 2007]
Dixons to become online finance guru
News The Dixons.co.uk service will enter the already crowded price comparison market by the end of 2007, although the retailer said that basic development work on the site and call centre is already completed. [20 Aug 2007]
De Beers ventures into selling diamonds online
News The retailer already has sites geared for its Japanese, UK and US markets but these points of presence did not allow viewers to purchase goods. Products on offer include the retailer's bridal range and its Tallisman Collection. [19 Jun 2007]
IE 7 gives secure sites the green light
News VeriSign has about 300 customers, including online retailer Overstock.com, that have signed up for the green bar certification process, said Spiros Theodossiou, a senior product manager at VeriSign. Nearly $2bn in US ecommerce sales were lost in... [05 Feb 2007]
XML and Web Services at the Service of Service Level Agreements for Uniform Network and Systems Management
White Paper The paper follows a tutorial like approach in introducing the reader to the emerging trend taking advantage from the advances made in the Web Services technology and the popular acceptance of XML as the near future de facto data representation and... [09 Aug 2006]
Dixons moves from high street to the web
News Dixons will move off the high street and exist purely as an online retailer, electrical goods retailer Dixons Stores Group (DSG) announced today. Dixons ecommerce operation has recorded more than 50 per cent year-on-year sales growth over the last... [05 Apr 2006]
Banks set up text, email fraud alerts for customers
News Both banks were among the scores of financial institutions forced to reissue thousands of debit cards in the past two months after hackers broke into the computer systems of a national retailer and made off with customer data - including PINs. [17 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.09.05
Round-Up In 1999 the retailer advertised a television for sale on its website for £3 but after a rush of customers taking it up on the deal the company refused to honour the sale, claiming it was clearly a mistake. [02 Sep 2005]
Amazon ends patent dispute with $40m
News Soverain, an ecommerce software company, originally filed a claim against both Amazon and clothing retailer Gap on 12 January 2004, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Soverain had alleged that Amazon and Gap infringed on... [12 Aug 2005]
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