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News Since its conception it has signed up some big clients - including Circuit City, Coors Brewing, Lockheed Martin, Petco and Safeway. German software giant SAP is to auction its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, only two years after acquiring the company.
[16 Jan 2008]
News Ric Francis, executive director of operations with the Post Office, was involved in both the Smith Industries merger and Safeway merger with Morrisons. I was less involved in the Safeway deal and think it was less successful as a result, I do not...
[10 Jan 2008]
News Francis joined the Post Office in 2005 from Safeway, where he was CIO until it merged with Morrisons. The Post Office director of operations Ric Francis is leaving the organisation to embark on a career in independent consultancy.
[05 Nov 2007]
News Ric Francis, operations director of The Post Office and former Safeway CIO said: "I found myself constantly being frustrating by the organisation I was in, and always believed I could do a bit more [by] going out to find that challenge in another...
[17 Oct 2007]
Comment Post Office operations director and former Safeway CIO Ric Francis says there is little business sense in investing in proprietary core systems. Retail technology touches our daily lives at almost every turn and that's reflected in the fact that...
[02 Jul 2007]
CIO Profile In 1995 Angwin joined supermarket chain Safeway as director of business services and then moved across to become director of business IT development. What they say about him: "One of the many Mars IT guys who's used that excellent all-round...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Analysis Post Office operations director and former Safeway CIO Ric Francis says there is little business sense in investing in proprietary core systems. Yet retailers traditionally spend proportionally less on IT than almost any other sector, leaving many...
[06 Jun 2007]
News And the idea that CIOs can develop the necessary skills to secure the top job is shared by Ric Francis, former CIO at Safeway, who is now COO at the Post Office. When companies have selected a new CEO in past years it has often been the CFO or COO...
[07 Mar 2007]
whitepaper In fact, giant grocers like Pathmark and Safeway are committing high-value retail space in their stores to third-party gift card programs. These days gift cards are the most popular form of gift to give and receive among young people, and their...
[09 Nov 2006]
Photo Asked why CIOs and heads of IT often miss out when the top job of CEO is to be filled Royal Mail COO, Ric Francis, himself a former CIO at Safeway, suggested it may be because: "The marketing guy and the sales guy have been marketing or selling...
[26 Sep 2006]
Comment The following year after relentlessly struggling and stalling with the integration of Safeway's IT systems, Morrisons announced it was switching off the supply chain management systems that it had inherited from Safeway - a surprising move, given...
[23 Jun 2006]
Comment CRM had hit the buffers, and the whole area seemed to go quiet, with some big supermarkets such as Asda and Safeway canning their loyalty card programmes. Recent developments, though, do favour smaller players.
[23 May 2006]
whitepaper This case study describes how Unilever's UK Home and Personal Care company, Lever Faberge, in partnership with Safeway Stores and logistics providers, Tibbett and Britten and Wincanton, tagged packs of personal care products at the point of...
[24 Jan 2006]
Leader There's evidence of this already among our CIO Jury, with David Yu moving from CTO to COO at Betfair.com and Ric Francis, former CIO at Safeway, becoming operations director at the Post Office. This week silicon.com conducted two surveys which gave...
[24 Jun 2005]
News David Yu has moved from CTO to COO at Betfair.com while Ric Francis, former CIO at supermarket chain Safeway, has recently become operations director at the Post Office. IT bosses have dismissed suggestions there is a glass ceiling preventing CIOs...
[23 Jun 2005]
News Founding members of the Portfolio Management Advisory Council include AAA, Boeing, Safeway, Visa and Washington Mutual along with participants from the analyst and academic communities. Several leading US companies are forming a new council to...
[15 Mar 2005]
News The former CIO of supermarket chain Safeway has been appointed as the new operations director at the Post Office. Ric Francis was axed as Safeway CIO last March after the £3bn takeover of the company by Morrisons.
[08 Feb 2005]
News Major retailers already on board include Safeway, HMV, Shell and Selfridges. Fraud fears over the new chip and PIN credit and debit cards have been dismissed by APACS, the card payment body behind the programme.
[08 Nov 2004]
Leader Another retail CIO silicon.com used to know well was at Safeway, a supermarket chain this side of the Atlantic now owned by Morrison's. This week's news about how supermarket stalwart Sainsbury has stumbled in its use of IT highlights a...
[20 Oct 2004]
whitepaper Companies at the forefront of RFID deployment in the United Kingdom are confident that a mix of corporate attitudes and government initiatives has helped push the U.K.ahead of Europe and the United States in terms of RFID implementation.
[01 Jul 2004]
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