News for Retail & Consumer
Thursday, January 26, 2012
UK’s Biggest Pub & Restaurant Operator Goes Cloud
The company that owns Harvester, O’Neills and Toby Carvery is rolling out cloud computing across the whole group. Mitchells & Butlers, the largest restaurant and pub operator in the UK, has partnered with Fujitsu to extend networked SaaS to its 1,600 branches.
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Thorntons in line from £2m savings from outsourcing
UK chocolate brand Thorntons has stated that outsourcing its IT and other activates will help deliver an annual cost saving of £2 million.
“This, together with the ongoing benefits of our procurement review and the recent restructuring of our head office cost base, should deliver a full-year benefit of £2 million that will flow through in full in the 2012/13 financial year,” said a Thorntons spokesperson.
HP provides Thorntons end-to-end management and support for IT, networking and applications.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Retail slump leading to squeeze on IT investment
Expenditure on new IT systems for 2011-2012 to drop to one per cent of retailers' total sales revenue on average, the lowest since research firm Martec International first started compiling records nine years ago.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
50% of firms in DACH Region to up software expenditure; PAC
Nearly half of companies in DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) plan to increase their expenditure on CRM and ERP software, according to a recent survey conducted by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC).
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Premier Foods renews IT contract with Capgemini
Premier Foods, one of the UK’s largest food producers, has renewed its long-term IT outsourcing alliance with Capgemini once more.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
ITC and Oracle join forces in loyalty and marketing BPO services
Global IT services & solutions company ITC Infotech, fully owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd, is working with Oracle to provide Loyalty & Marketing based BPO services.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
William Hill nearshores telebetting to Gibraltar
Gaming specialist William Hill Online (WHCL) is to establish a new telephone betting operation based in Gibraltar; the move will also see the firm close the group’s telephone betting subsidiary in the UK, William Hill Credit Limited (WHCL).
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Grupo Vips selects BT for comms network contract
Spanish restaurant and retail operator Grupo Vips, has picked UK telecoms operator BT to renew its current communications network.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Unilever extends BT contract
Unilever has extended its outsourcing contract with BT, a deal worth around additional €173m.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Value of outsourcing contracts increase by 3% report finds
Last year, companies in the Forbes Global 2000 (G2000) index –the world’s largest public companies – collectively spent $71bn in annualised contract value (ACV) on outsourcing, a 3% increase over 2008.
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