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Matalan cuts cost with offshoring
News Value fashion retailer Matalan has signed a six-year contract with Capgemini to offshore core IT systems to India and Poland.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Under the contract, Capgemini will support all of Matalan's applications from Mumbai... [12 Apr 2007]
Photos: Top 10 pieces of Linux kit
Photo IBM uses Linux for its SurePOS terminals, shown here, and major retailers including Matalan have adopted open source for their tills. Running Linux on Microsoft hardware has been the ultimate prize for open source fans and a wiki for the Linux Xbox... [22 Nov 2006]
Matalan writes off £20m over failed IT system
News Retailer Matalan is threatening to sue an IT consultancy after spending £20m on an unfinished new computer system that has now been scrapped. The £20m write-off has hit Matalan's profits, which fell from £86.3m last year to £36.3m for the financial... [04 May 2006]
Matalan Improves Customer Service With New In-Store Systems From Capgemini
White Paper Matalan is one of the UK's leading clothing and homewares retailers, trading from 6.5 million square feet in some 190 out-of-town stores. The technology being used within the business was more than 10 years old and was becoming a constraint on the... [26 Apr 2006]
Corporate Voodoo: Extract 4 - winners and losers
Comment Matalan The discount clothing retailers, like Matalan, were new and ferocious foes. The second issue in Slow businesses is fixation with product. The 1970s and 1980s saw the massive advent of brands. Corporations were branding and re-branding on a... [11 May 2001]
UK retailers slammed for 'ecommerce apathy'
News Harbige also claimed the UK's fastest growing retailers are Matalan and New Look - both criticised in the report for not having Web sites. The UK's top retailers are failing to make the most of ecommerce, with over a third still to launch any kind... [24 Mar 1999]
