UK retail sales were up 1.3% on a like-for-like basis from August 2013, when they had increased 1.8% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 2.7%, against a 3.6% rise in August 2013. This is the best performance since January, ...
Time-stretched small business owners are having to put work before special occasions, a new study reveals. The YouGov survey, commissioned by First Data Merchant Solutions, quizzed over 1,000 British small business owners and decision makers, ...
The National Retail Federation today announced the formation of the Small Business Retail Council to organize, recruit and engage Main Street merchants and independent community retailers in grassroots advocacy activities. The Council will ...
TCPOS, provider of IT solutions for retail and hospitality, hosted a get-together with customers from retail and catering at the BORUSSIA-PARK in Mönchengladbach in early August. Even though the team from Mönchengladbach was defeated ...
Supervalu announced that it experienced a criminal intrusion into the portion of its computer network that processes payment card transactions for some of its retail food stores, including some of its associated stand-alone liquor ...
A new International Data Corporation (IDC) study confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market, accounting for a growing portion of hardware spending and exerting influence on hardware architectures ...
At the company’s Annual Shareholders Meeting, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. President and CEO Doug McMillon reaffirmed Walmart’s mission and outlined new ways the company will serve customers through three core principles. “First, we ...
Supply Chain Commerce Solutions provider Manhattan Associates has acquired the assets of Global Bay Technologies from VeriFone. The acquisition extends Manhattan’s market leading omni-channel Inventory and Order Management solutions by ...
Due in large part to softer customer traffic levels, the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) registered a moderate decline in June. The RPI – a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and ...
Effective August 1, the Fraport Group has expanded its international portfolio in the global airport market by acquiring 100 percent of U.S.-based AMU Holdings Inc., which owns Airmall USA Holdings Inc. (Airmall). One of the leading ...
There is no disguising the challenges that Nigeria is facing. The world is well aware of the concerns around terrorism and Nigeria’s ongoing struggle with poverty. However, there is another side to the Nigeria story that has been overshadowed ...
Back-to-school shopping is the second largest retail event of the year, only behind holiday shopping. However, businesses are failing to use loyalty programs in order to take full advantage of the $72.5 billion back-to-school shopping opportunity, ...
Data from retail analyst group Cogenta reveals that UK pricing activity is consistently up in the majority of consumer categories being tracked. The activity data monitored over six months (Q4 2013 plus interim figures for Q1 2014) is consistent ...
Dr. Michael Fries, former executive board member of CEWE Color, joins the business management of Onlineprinters, one of the leading online print shops in Europe, as of 1 July 2014. The experienced printing industry key player will take charge ...
According to a recent consumer survey from Voice of the Customer specialist eDigitalResearch, online grocery shoppers tend to buy fewer impulse purchases online than in store, resulting is smaller basket sizes. The survey of 1,154 online ...
PayPal launched PassPort, a website designed to educate and empower small businesses with free tools to expand their global sales. PassPort provides country-specific guidance on seasonal sales peaks, including holidays and events; cultural customs, ...
Food Marketing Institute (FMI) today released its annual analysis of U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends, presented by FMI President and CEO Leslie G. Sarasin at FMI Connect, which reveals dramatic changes in the consumer universe that have impacted the way ...
In 2013, Wincor Nixdorf maintained its market leadership in electronic POS solution deliveries to retailers in Europe and also solidified its market position as the no. 2 in the world for the segments food/non-food and general merchandise. ...
Due to Africa being home to seven of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world, the continent is fast becoming top of mind for many global businesses. According to Sumesh Rahavendra, Head of Marketing for DHL Express Sub-Saharan (SSA) ...
As part of National Small Business Week, the National Retail Federation today recognized a bipartisan group of 258 members of Congress as “Heroes of Main Street” for their support of small business and the U.S. retail industry, the ...
Despite nicer spring weather, consumers tempered their spending in the month of April. According to the National Retail Federation, April retail sales, which exclude automobiles, gas stations and restaurants, were unchanged seasonally-adjusted ...
MICROS, a global leader of innovative IT solutions for the hotel, hospitality and retail sectors, will host the MICROS Retail Forum 2014 in Düsseldorf on 26 and 27 June 2014. This event addresses retailers and industry experts, providing ...
Imported products sold in the United States from clothing to cars contain far more U.S. parts or other content and value and support significantly more American jobs than consumers or policymakers realize, according to a new report prepared for the ...
FSP, the UK’s leading retail consultancy, has signed a new framework agreement with leading global real estate fund manager, M&G Real Estate, to provide regular bespoke retail research, to help shape the organisation’s in-town and ...
The forthcoming Journal of Consumer Research study reveals that consumers who get the brush-off at a high-end retailer can become more willing to purchase and wear pricey togs. "It appears that snobbiness might actually be a ...
On average Brits will wait just under six minutes in a shop queue before they walk out. That’s according to a survey conducted by global retail technology provider, Omnico, as part of an investigation into the effect of queues on ...
The latest figures from Ipsos Retail Performance show an improvement to average weekly shopper numbers in March. The Retail Traffic Index, which measures the number of shoppers entering over 4000 non-food retail stores across the UK, rose by ...
The number of retailers who expect mobile to be their top marketing priority will more than quadruple over the next five years, according to a study by Yes Lifecycle Marketing. In Q4 of 2013, multichannel marketing solutions provider, Yes ...
Nearly one in five shoppers (19%) say they will be better off in the year ahead, which is the highest level since January 2011, when only 10% felt this way. That’s according to research published today (Tuesday) by IGD ShopperVista, which ...
A study by Kingston Business School students has found a majority of local businesses would welcome the option of trying out a local currency, and that most are confident about their trading prospects for the next three years. The Kingston Pound ...
A new study designed to help large, organized retailers determine where and how to best enter Sub-Saharan Africa’s rapidly growing retail sector is published by A.T. Kearney, a leading global strategy consultancy firm, today. Rwanda, ...
iXtenso, the online journal for the retail sector, has published the special issue "Retail Trends" in time for EuroShop, "The world’s leading Retail Trade Fair", which will take place in Düsseldorf from 16 to 20 ...
The global department store market will grow by 22.2% in the five years to 2019, boosted by a 38.1% rise in spend in China, which will account for almost half of the $100bn incremental spend. According to Verdict’s Global Department Store ...
Several new employees have joined CashGuard in recent weeks. Distributed among R&D, Support, Sales and Marketing, this expansion is the latest step toward achieving CashGuard’s ambitions to increase its global market ...
Neschen is pushing ahead with restructuring of the company and strengthening its management in Sales by adding two experienced new members to the team. Emphasis is being placed on the increased independence of the respective Production and Sales ...
The global retail industry is currently facing some of the biggest challenges in decades. Radical changes in consumer buying behavior, rapid technological change, which enormously influences both the internal processes in companies as well as the ...
The 4thWorld Retail Congress Asia Pacific returns to Singapore for the second timewith an in-depth focus on the new era in Asia retailing. The Congress will run fromMonday 24th to Thursday 27th March2014 at Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore. ...
In today’s rapidly changing, consumer-centric retail landscape, there is a critical need for retail CIOs to transition from a focus on the “back office” to driving innovation as C-level strategists, according to a study released ...
Höft & Wessel does not build its terminals, handhelds, etc. all by itself. The Hannover-based company relies on strong partners like Zollner Elektronik AG from Bavaria/Germany. How does their co-operation work, and how do customers stand to ...
Technology start-up Shelfbucks Inc. today announced it has appointed a 25-member advisory board of senior corporate executives and business school leaders to help guide the company’s long-term growth and introduction of its technology ...
First Insight, the world’s leading solution provider empowering retailers and manufacturers to introduce the right new products at the right price, today announced its Big Ideas Session at National Retail Federation's (NRF's) 103rd ...
Ergonomic Solutions, an acknowledged leader in the design and supply of technology mounting and security solutions in the retail, mass transit, hospitality and healthcare sectors, today announced that it has been appointed a Together Commerce ...
Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. Petra B. enters the store. She is on a mission. Petra B. is a mystery shopper. Armed with her wallet, a trained eye and exact instructions by the storeowner, it is now up to her to put the service quality of the store ...
The Asia Pacific region is witnessing rapid change. Increased urbanization, a growing middle class and a new, technology hungry generation have meant that today’s shoppers are more sophisticated and demanding of retailers. Greater ...
Karin S. works in the service area of a gas station. Her daily routine includes taking in money for gas and oil as well as snacks, beverages and other food items. Even at gas stations, test purchases contribute to making service better. Mrs. S. ...
It sounds mysterious, but it is far from being cryptic. On the contrary, so-called mystery shopping provides important information about customers, employees and service in retail. Christian Karrenbauer is the Managing Director of the MSM Group. His ...
How much ground-breaking technology, innovation and solutions can you cram into 190,000 square feet of EXPO Space? Quite a bit. With 520 solution providers, the BIG Show EXPO floor is huge playground full of new technology, innovative products ...
Euclid, the leader of in-store retail analytics, measured data on nearly 25 million domestic shopping sessions during November, revealing that shopper traffic and window conversion improved significantly as heavy promotions brought shoppers back out ...
The technology enterprise Hoeft & Wessel AG pursues a dedicated growth strategy. This is essentially also to be implemented by new managerial staff at the operational level. Guenter Kuhlmann (51) has been in charge of the Research & ...
At the Annual General Meeting of Hoeft & Wessel AG, a new Supervisory Board was elected on schedule. In Dirk Ulrich Hindrichs, the managing shareholder of D.U.H. GmbH & Co. KG and former managing personally liable partner of Schüco ...
