Internet search engine Google has become the UK’s top brand for the first time, according to a consumer survey. It moved up two places from last year’s poll, beating Microsoft into second place and Mercedes Benz into third. Google also topped a poll of “superbrands” as judged by professionals earlier this year. No supermarkets made […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NEW YORK–Using a laptop, cell phone headset, building access badge, credit cards, or even a passport can make you a walking target for data thieves and other criminals, a security expert warned at the Last HOPE hacker conference here late Friday. In a frightening but entertaining session entitled “How do I Pwn Thee? Let me […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NEW YORK: A 1.4 million-member union in the United States has urged Citigroup to break itself up because the bank had become “too big and unwieldy to properly oversee.” Gerald McEntee, the president of the union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees president, sent a letter on Friday to Win Bischoff, the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RFID products fall into two basic categories: Passive and Active. Passive tags do not have batteries and have indefinite life expectancies. Active Tags are powered by batteries and either have to be recharged, have their batteries replaced or be disposed of when the batteries fail. Various Types of Antennas (above) RFID products are then broken […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lianhua Supermarket Holdings Co, Ltd., one of China’s largest retail operators, said that the company will open 15 new large-scale supermarkets every year — including two in Shanghai in 2008. Liang Wei, general manager of Lianhua Supermarket, said that although inflation in China is serious, the company will still maintain the 2008 ratio between its […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Volkswagen, the biggest European car maker, posted record first-half sales with a surge in China helping to boost global deliveries to 3.27m vehicles. The company said in a statement yesterday that the figure represented an increase of 5.8pc over the figure for the first six months of 2007, with China alone taking in 531,600 vehicles […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shirt retailer TM Lewin is to launch womenswear stores next year, as it revealed profits and sales have bucked the retail downturn. TM Lewin chief executive Geoff Quinn said: “We are hoping to go into ladies standalone stores for the first half of next year. We would start off in London.” Mr Quinn said that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is welcoming the new impetus given to retail rents reform by some of retailing’s biggest names. Arcadia owner Sir Philip Green and Lord Harris, Chairman of Carpetright, are among those now calling for commercial landlords to accept rents monthly rather than quarterly in advance. The BRC believes its two year […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
COIMBATORE: Future Group company Pantaloon Retail India will open new ‘Big Bazaar’ outlets in the major towns and cities of Tamil Nadu within the shortest possible period, a senior company official said today. To start with, a new outlet would be opened in Chennai within a month. Outlets would soon be opened in Salem, Tiruchirapalli, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grocery operator Vester launched its second outlet in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus. Investments in the supermarket, taking up 2,400 m2, comprised some $2m. The store features 10,000 SKUs. Overall, Vester is to open three new hypermarkets in Ukraine by the end of 2008, Interfax reported. Vester Hyper outlets will appear in Khmelnitsky, Kharkov […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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