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Thomas Sabo invests in ShopperTrak for store traffic analytics

Retailer will use leading traffic counting solution to analyse global performanceHigh Wycombe, UK — 5th February 2014 - Thomas Sabo, a global jewellery and lifestyle brand, has selected ShopperTrak to manage retail traffic counting and analytics in its 86 standalone stores worldwide. The system will be used across 13 countries to provide Thomas Sabo with daily insight into store performance and sales conversion rates. The organisation will extend the system to the company's franchise network...

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Cogenta Is First To Launch Multi-National Retail Pricing Comparison Tool

Leading retail intelligence technology group Cogenta (www.cogenta.com) has launched a multi-national version of its Cloud-based Retail Insight platform. The innovative pricing intelligence application is the first system to enable international retailers, manufacturers, brand managers and market researchers to monitor consumer goods pricing data from major economic centres in 24 countries across the globe, including Europe and the Americas. The platform can manage price data collections in any language. Users of the new platform will benefit...

UK Online Sales Slowdown For Christmas Whilst Eurozone Sees Significant Expansion According to Computop

UK shows a decrease of 23% in sales but overall basket values increase by 22%Online sales in Eurozone up 35% on 2012 for pre-Christmas periodBiggest winners are consumer electronics with sales up 18 %London, UK - 16 December 2013 - Computop, a leading payment service provider, has analysed payment patterns across its global payments network in Europe for the period 1 November 2013 up to 10 December 2013 compared to the same period in 2012....

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Amazon is top US retailer on Pinterest this Christmas shopping season

Festive Pinterest boards on display from US retailers such as Walmart and QVCNew York - December 12, 2013 - Amazon.com is the most popular US online retail site when it comes to having web content shared on Pinterest, the pin-board style social network, in the run up to Christmas 2013. In a study of ten top US retail sites[1], images and pages from Amazon.com are being shared most frequently on Pinterest, with Walmart and Apple...

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Esendex Acquires Text Marketer in First Acquisition Following MBO

Acquisition will ensure Esendex continues to lead growing business SMS market UK, 12 December 2013 - Esendex, the business SMS expert, backed by Darwin Private Equity, has acquired Text Marketer as part of its commitment to lead and develop the business SMS market. The combined business will be able to further capitalise on this rapidly-growing industry, working with an even wider range of customers.It is the first acquisition following the £11 million management buyout (MBO)...

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Zylpha Systems Support Bott & Co In Recovering £1million for Delayed Flights In Just Over 10 months

With airport chaos dominating the news recently, award winning aviation practice Bott & Co has recovered £1million from airlines for clients claiming for delayed or cancelled flights. Over the course of just ten months Bott & Co, who have settled over 2500 claims for clients, using EU legislation, has a total on-going claim value of €4.5m and currently represent a further 10,000 claimants.The process is made possible through a data transmission system designed by leading...

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STE & Bohemia Interactive Simulations announce strategic partnership

Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) are excited to announce a strategic partnership with STE S.p.a. for business development and sales in Italy. This consists of an exclusivereseller agreement for STE which is the first of its kind executed by BISim anywhere in the world.Pete Morrison, BISim CEO said, "This strategic partnership allows BISim and STE to develop the use and understanding of VBS in Italy where we have a growing number of experienced users and customers....

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Rubicon Project Hires Craig Mytton as Head of Buyer Cloud for UK and Ireland

Mytton to lead team working with agencies, trading desks, ad networks, DSPs and other buying partnersFormer Head of RTB Demand Luke Fenney becomes Head of Yield Management, International and Luke Rimmington joins from Xaxis LONDON - 29 November, 2013, Rubicon Project, which operates one of the advertising industry's largest, fastest independent technology platforms for buying and selling digital advertising, is expanding its technology and buy side capabilities in the UK with the appointment of Craig...

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Eyefreight hires Bogdan (Bob) Fedorciow as Executive Vice President, International

November 27, 2013 - Eyefreight (www.eyefreight.com), a leading provider of Transportation Management System (TMS) technology, is pleased to announce its recent hire of Bogdan (Bob) Fedorciow, who will join the Eyefreight team as the Executive Vice President of International. Within this role, Fedorciow will lead Eyefreight's international sales team.

GGM’s High Growth IT Fund invests €1.4m in Optimitive Group

November 26, 2013 Luxembourg — Today, GGM Venture Capital (www.ggm.lu) the Luxembourg-based venture capital fund investing in early stage European technology-driven companies, announced it has invested though its sub-fund GGM High Growth IT Fund, a total of €1.40m series A investment into Optimitive (www.optimitive.com). The round was led by GGM Venture Capital and joined by SURGE Accelerator. Optimitive graduated from the SURGE Accelerator program in May 2013. Founded in Spain in 2008, Optimitive provides a...