Amazon has overtaken Walmart to become the world’s most valuable retail brand in the eighth annual Millward Brown Optimor BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands study.
The e-tailer grew its brand value by 34 per cent to reach $45.7 billion, and has risen four places to no.14 in the overall Top 100 ranking
Visa Europe believes contactless usage has reached a critical point of adoption across Europe
LaSer UK's announce partnership with established department store chain, Beales, to manage its ‘Love Rewards,’ loyalty programme
DFS, supplier of more than one in four sofas bought in the UK, has chosen K3 Retail and its Microsoft Dynamics manufacturing solution
International jewellery retailer, Anthony Nicholas Group (ANG), is rolling out a secure, fully managed communications network from Vodat International
Asda shoppers will be able to scan their groceries with a smartphone application that will help the grocer cut costs and gather customer data
Latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveal a 16 per cent year-on-year rise on spending in April
Judo, the pay as you go mobile card payment service, announced the completion of a successful partnership with this year’s Real Food Festival
Morrisons has agreed a deal with Ocado that will enable it to launch an online grocery service by January 2014
Online fashion retailer, Country Attire, has undergone a rebrand and unveiled a new website
ChannelAdvisor has announced a partnership with the UK’s third largest online marketplace, Rakuten Play.com
Ikano is to work in association with IKEA BUSINESS London, the business outfitting arm of the retail furnishings giant, to handle its new loyalty programme
Halfords is now using LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 and LANDesk Patch Manager to manage its IT Support Centre environment
Mobile devices have resulted in the creation of an empowered and knowledgable consumer, which is driving great change in the way retailers interact with them. Glynn Davis peers into the future to find out what will keep these new age shoppers engaged
Many retailers have addressed the multi-channel basics says IBM, but are they exploiting its true potential? Ellie Robinson investigates how retailers can harness the barrage of information produced across all outlets and use it to drive long-term growth in sales, profits and customer satisfaction
It was much hyped as ‘the year of mobile’ and it seems that 2012 was indeed the year that m-commerce became an integral channel for many retailers, writes Wayne Tuckfield Many are now predicting that mobile visits to retail sites will overtake desktop in the next year
There is no doubt that multi-channel is the present and future of every major retailer on Britain’s High Streets today. The future of multi-channel will see retailers respond to showrooming by turning their stores into interactive showcases for products
2012 was a year when the bad news just kept coming. High Street names like Comet, Blacks Leisure, Game Group, Peacocks, Clinton Cards, Thorntons and JJB Sports all suffered serious, sometimes terminal trading difficulties
With the boom in digital signage, kiosks and mobile devices for staff, the way retailers engage with their customers in-store has changed dramatically in a very short time. Ellie Robinson investigates
Like it or not, all retailers will be using cloud computing in the future. But will they opt for the traditional IT outsourcing companies, or the new kids on the block, such as Amazon and Google? Glynn Davis reports
Sudden spikes in demand for a product can still catch out even big names. Graham Buck examines the importance of merchandise planning in preventing empty spaces on shelves
The huge appeal of cloud computing is undeniable, but what is it that’s drawing retailers towards this kind of technology? Is it the agility cloud promises or is it the cost and time savings it delivers? Karen Moss finds out
