The sharemarket ended a three-day losing streak yesterday as the latest earnings results from US aluminium giant Alcoa reassured investors in the resources-heavy domestic bourse, with high-yield and defensive sectors of the market well bid. ...
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Furniture Today's 2013 Retail Planning Guide includes our economic analyses of the year that was 2012 and our outlook for 2013. The exclusive 49-page issue and report includes: Economic Outlook - A detailed look at 2012 furniture and ...
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Apple's lower-priced iPad Mini will significantly cannibalize sales of the company's full-sized iPad, with up to half of customers opting for the smaller tablet, an analyst argued today. Most experts have estimated the iPad Mini's ...
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Five years after German retail giant Otto provided investment capital for a start-up analytics software supplier, it achieved a 40% improvement in demand forecasting from the resulting technology. Otto derives revenue of €11.6bn ...
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BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Leisure Trends Group and the National Sporting Goods Association have reached an agreement that will provide NSGA members with access to retail sales data from Leisure Trends' Sporting Goods RetailTRAK program. ...
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Maple Lake, the retail software vendor that helps plan best-selling ranges for the likes of the Arcadia Group, Ted Baker, ASoS, adidas Group and Levi Strauss, has just released an 'out-of-the-box', pre-configured version of its ...
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Alexander Zeier, co-designer of SAP's HANA appliance, speaks to Computer Weekly about the evolution of in-memory analytics. Zeier joined Accenture eight weeks ago, having spent the last few years at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of ...
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A hot ticket at the annual Vision show is the AIA Networking Reception which includes presentations on machine vision market performance, with a focus on North America, a multinational panel discussion, and an opportunity to eat, drink and ...
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Just how much does Apple dominate competitors in the U.S. tablet market? The question has always been one left to estimates by analysts, but documents recently filed as part of the court battle between the company and Samsung provide actual ...
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Atterley Road, a new online store that brings high street fashion and independent designers together, has chosen e-rmis, the retail management system from Eurostop, a provider of solutions to the fashion and footwear sector. Recently ...
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Built NY, a Leading Lifestyle Brand, Signs Up with Enhanced Retail Solutions for Retail Synthesis to Analyze Product Sales and Trends Built NY, a New York-based lifestyle brand that offers a range of fashionable and functional products ...
Fashion retail chain O’Neill Europe has undergone a major IT consolidation to cut costs and use information more efficiently in a difficult trading market. The company works with 34 distributors in Europe, each previously with its ...
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The government's CIO,Andy Nelson(pictured),has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project,which include a structure more like Apple's App Store,and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not ...
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Retail sales in November, which are typically viewed as the beginning of the holiday shopping season, showed a solid performance with annual and sequential gains, according to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce ...
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