American grocery store chain Albertsons Companies will buy meal kit startup Plated for an undisclosed price, in a move to attract more customers to its stores. The acquisition of the New York City based food tech company, founded in 2012, ...
Tags: food tech
Evrything, the Internet of Things (IOT) Smart Products Platform for consumer products, has announced industry-first connection of GS1 identifiers with the IOT industrial scale. With this integration, consumer goods brands can use billions ...
Tags: consumer product, industrial scale
SAP SE announced an investment in Vivanda, provider of a data-driven, context-sensitive personalization platform for the food and beverage industry. The investment allows SAP and Vivanda to jointly enable food industry companies to ...
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DFS has reported a continued strong performance in its H2, with revenue up 7% YOY, and also up 7% for the whole financial year. In light of this, the retailer expects to deliver a record performance this year, with results towards the upper ...
John Lewis has continued to outperform the market in uncertain trading conditions, with gross sales up 2.8% to £4.56bn (4.4% on a 52 week basis). To ensure that customers can shop whenever and however they want, John Lewis has ...
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Acuity Brands, Inc. announced newly enhanced LED luminaires for retail applications that incorporate ByteLight™ technology to create an ultra-precise indoor positioning and wayfinding system. ByteLight technology from Acuity Brands ...
UK's leading international fashion retailer, Karen Millen, has deployed the omnichannel supply chain solution, Merret, by Retail Assist, a leading retail IT solutions and services Company providing UK and international retailers with ...
Tags: tailoring, coats, eveningwear, women's clothing, Karen Millen
Sir Philip Green's Arcadia has claimed a clean sweep of the best omnichannel retailers across the UK, Germany and France, with Topshop taking the top spot, closely followed by sister brands Wallis and Miss Selfridge, according to a survey ...
Retail e-commerce is maintaining its impressive growth irrespective of market size, according to the 2015 global retail e-commerce index published by AT Kearney, a leading global management consulting firm. The index highlights ...
French sporting goods retailer Decathlon reported price cuts, a broader selection and omnichannel initiatives helped it post its second highest sales growth in a decade in 2014. At Decathlon France, net sales increased 4.33 percent, ...
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PAI Partners, the Paris-based private equity firm that acquired Europe's largest outdoor retailer in February, is considering acquiring U.K. Trek and Specialized dealer Evans Cycles from a British PE firm, The Telegraph reported March 27. ...
Toy giant will move from country-by-country leadership structure to a pan-European approach to drive greater efficiencies across its European business. Toys R Us is taking ‘aggressive steps in the months ahead’ to achieve ...
John Lewis continued to outperform the market in year ended 31st January 2015 with gross sales up 9.2% to £4.43b (7.5% on a 52 week basis), beating the BRC by 4.9%, combined with growth in operating profit, up 10.8% to £250.5m ...
Famous women apparel brands Lela Rose and Protagonist have chosen the cloud-based FashionManager enterprise software solution by RLM Apparel Software Systems Inc., software solutions provider to the fashion industry’s biggest and ...
Tags: Womenswear, Textile
NYSE listed and US based apparel retailer, Macy’s, Inc said it reported its sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth in adjusted earnings per share in the fiscal month ended January 31, 2015. According to Macy's, in fiscal ...
Tags: apparel retailer, Apparel