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Drinks giant Diageo taps into Second Life
News Changing consumer trends and the new generation of young "digital natives" are forcing drinks giant Diageo to exploit new digital marketing channels such as the virtual world Second Life. One of the issues for Diageo is... [11 Jun 2007]
Web mall disowns Drinks Direct
News Following Silicon.com's investigation into the problems faced by online drinks gifts retailer, Drinks Direct, the barrage of complaints has caused the company's Web host to disassociate itself from the... [26 Jan 1999]
Online drinks retailer has sobering Christmas
News Online retailer Drinks Direct has admitted it ran into trouble over the Christmas period when it lost database access to a host site. A Drinks Direct customer services representative blamed the problem... [14 Jan 1999]
Drinks firm toasts IP telephony
News The company behind drinks brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Bailey's and Guinness has chosen Cisco to help it deploy 2,000 IP-based telephones at its global headquarters. Diageo said it chose an IP system because... [21 Aug 2002]
AT&T drinks to $18m Allied Domecq deal
News Drinks company Allied Domecq has signed an $18m deal with AT&T to deploy an IP virtual private network (VPN) across 150 sites in five continents. The three-year deal will consolidate Allied Domecq's previous four network... [06 Nov 2003]
Macaw Soft Drinks Gets a Taste for SAP
White Paper Macaw Soft Drinks supplies a range of more than 180 label products to six of the leading UK supermarket retailers. Macaw had outgrown its two existing IT systems - a dedicated warehouse management system and a 16-user... [16 Nov 2004]
Drinks giant downs £85m CGI outsourcing deal
News It has been signed up to look after the information technology needs of soft drinks giant Cott around the world, at a cost of CDN$210m (£85m) over 10 years. Canadian IT services outfit CGI Group has landed another hefty... [28 Jun 2004]
Drinks giant Diageo hires new CIO
News Drinks giant Diageo has appointed a new CIO to fill the seat left vacant after previous IT chief, Robin Dargue, left to join Royal Mail. Diageo's new CIO is Brian Franz who joins from rival PepsiCo International where he... [03 Mar 2008]
Cornish brewery drinks to mobile working
Case Study St Austell Brewery is speeding up decision-making and getting information to its sales team on the road by using mobile technologies. The Cornish brewery has been running two projects - one to provide key workers with email on the move... [06 Sep 2006]
Dot-com offers $1m drinks
News More than 80,000 cases of rare wines from failed e-tailer wine.com are up for grabs as it attempts to pay off its creditors. The sale could raise as much as $1m. Online auctioneers, Realm Connect, will help sell off 80,000 cases of wine... [07 Aug 2001]
Whitbread drinks to its own success in 1999 IT awards
News The Whitbread Beer Company won the prize for Information Management Project of the Year at last night's Information Management 1999 awards. The Whitbread subsidiary beat close contenders Midland Electricity and Shell Services... [01 Dec 1999]
How SAP Retail Has Helped Cellar5 Cut Its Inventory by Half
White Paper Cellar5 Group is one of the country’s leading independent drinks retailers. The Right Choice chain of convenience stores offers a wide range of fresh and packaged groceries, drinks, news and other goods... [03 Jul 2008]
Microsoft's Ballmer calls for $1bn cuts
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has told employees in an email that he wants the company to save $1bn in the coming year - and if that means getting rid of company drinks machines, that's a step he's prepared to take. [07 Jul 2004]
Ubiquitous Commerce: Bluetooth Mobile Service Link
White Paper With any Bluetooth-enabled machine - a drinks dispenser, photocopy machine, petrol pump or parking meter, for instance - the user can place an order, receive goods and pay for them electronically via a hand-held device. [13 May 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Coffee gets wired, the ebusiness porn model, and ASP SLAs
Comment These e-espressopoint machines will allow individual users to order their drinks of coffee online with full access to all of the usual features of the machine - setting the strength and sugar settings for example. [14 Nov 2000]
