Convenience retailer Spar UK has launched a digital sales promotion aimed at increasing brand awareness and driving own-brand sales.
Posted Oct 6, 2009

MySpace, the social networking website, is launching a new teen drama, which incorporates product placement of brands including Red Bull.
Posted Sep 1, 2009

Barclaycard is launching a loyalty scheme for small stores on the back of research, which shows six out of 10 retailers are attracting fewer customers due to the economic downturn with owners and proprietors the worst affected.
Posted Aug 4, 2009

Halifax-based display company TMC is expanding its core competences to ensure products fly off retailers’ shelves. Fiona Briggs reports.
Posted Aug 4, 2009

TNS Magasin is combining its eye tracking technology, which records what shoppers are looking at in-store, with technology that will help understand what is going on in their minds as well.
Posted Jul 7, 2009

Albert Heijn, the Dutch supermarket chain in the Ahold group, is investing in consumer driven IT including self-scanning and electronic payment.
Posted Jun 9, 2009

Metro Group, one of the world’s leading retailers, is investing in technology across its operations to create added consumer value.
Posted Jun 9, 2009

Despite the credit crunch, the internet is continuing to prove the medium of choice for more advertisers as they seek to maximise return on investment.
Posted May 4, 2009

Danish brewer Carlsberg has awarded a three-year contract for management consultancy and IT services at its European business to Accenture.
Posted May 4, 2009

Sainsbury's has installed LED lighting systems in 15,000 freezer display cases throughout its UK store portfolio. Sainsbury's claims an energy saving of 75% per freezer.
Posted Apr 7, 2009

These days, companies and businesses across the world are turning a critical eye toward becoming more environmentally friendly, particularly as products move from cradle to grave through the supply chain.
Posted Mar 5, 2009

Pret A Manger, the UK high street food chain, is rolling out contactless payment across its estate of 178 stores.
Posted Jan 6, 2009

Pay-as-you-go products show great promise with budget-conscious consumers, writes Mike Skinner, general manager of Coinstar E-Payment Services
Posted Dec 2, 2008

GS1 UK, the independent supply chain standards and solutions organisation, has launched an industry initiative to develop practical solutions for the UK retail supply chain to improve data quality and to build a roadmap to standard data sharing.
Posted Nov 4, 2008

The next CIES IT Conference will take place in Amsterdam on 22-24 April 2009.
Posted Nov 4, 2008

Barclaycard is rolling out its contactless payment technology to U.K. convenience stores and independent retailers.
Posted Oct 6, 2008