Unsatisfactory online grocery experiences-especially on special occasions-are a sure-fire way to undermine brand loyalty,writes Andrew Don. A typical suburban family home last Christmas Eve:presents around the tree,table laid in ...
Tags: Asda, online service, online grocer Ocado, UK
A new partnership between the National Skills Academy for IT, training provider NITP and telecoms giant BT will create 550 IT apprenticeships in 2013. Some 100 apprentice jobs in small to medium-sized enterprises are already up for grabs, ...
Tags: National Skills Academy, IT, NITP, Computer
A streetlight strategy in Milton Keynes is currently under review after concerns were raised following two deaths on grid roads where lights had been switched off. Coroner Tom Osborne wrote to Milton Keynes Council after inquests into ...
Tags: lighting policy
Milton Keynes based Impact Production Services (IPS) supplied all the lighting, staging and rigging for the recent James Bond Premiere at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Working for Limited Edition Event Design, IPS built various Prolyte ...
Tags: IPS, Impact Production Services, lighting, staging
Network Rail chief information officer (CIO) Susan Cooklin has taken on the added responsibility for finance and HR shared services. The expanded role, which has officially commenced on 30 November, sees Cooklin’s team expand from ...
Tags: Network Rail, HR shared services, finance, IT industry
Out with the old Delivering the “near-impossible” The agenda for 2013 Focus on Apple The next funding period Susan Cooklin has had an eventful 2012. The CIO at Network Rail delivered major technology upgrades, while driving ...
Tags: Apple, Susan Cooklin, technology upgrades, cycle of transformation
As a leading consumer packaging company with 83 manufacturing sites across the globe, Rexam makes the packaging for many of the world’s favorite brands, striving to produce it as efficiently and sustainably as possible. Producing 4.5 ...
It seems that not a day goes without an email popping in to my inbox from a supermarket or national chain advertising a toy sale. Of course, toys aren’t a grocer’s core market, and driving footfall via any temporary deal or ...
Tags: asda, disney, dominic sacco, grocers, retail, supermarkets, toynews blog
“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
Tags: 1nterview, CIO, Royal Mail, Catherine Doran
AG Barr is to move into a new £41m Milton Keynes manufacturing and logistics site next year The project will create 100 jobs in the area and will be completed in February, with the site fully operation in the summer of 2013. A ...
Dutch brewery Grolsch has selected Rexam Beverage Can to produce 50cl cans to support the company’s partnership with an annual charity fundraising event, 3FM Serious Request run by Dutch radio station 3FM. Rexam's Milton Keynes ...
Tags: Beverage Cans, Rexam Beverage Can, 50cl cans
British Gas has been selected as exclusive supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for vehicles of Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi Motors within the UK. The collaboration will further allow customers to access a range of ...
Tags: Mitsubishi, British Gas, EV charging
Milton Keynes Council will be introducing cutting edge lighting technology in the city's underpasses. The council is undertaking an energy saving conversion of all underpass lighting across the city, using the latest LED (light ...
Tags: LED lighting
Ark Lighting are pleased to announce that they have been successful in securing contracts with local authorities in Milton Keynes and Sheffield. The new contracts will help the local authorities to achieve a 67% carbon reduction and a ...
UK-XL Events supplied audio and video equipment for two of the Skoda display areas at the recent 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed,Chichester,West Sussex. One was in the Moving Motor Show where approximately 40%of visitors entered the ...
Tags: XL Events supplied audio and video, two of the Skoda display areas