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  • Professional services firm bolsters retail offering with new hire

    Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services firm specializing in turnaround and interim management, performance improvement and business advisory services, has hired Tom Phelps as a managing director. He will help retailers in the U.S. and worldwide improve business performance.  

  • Made in Memphis: Electrolux begins production in Tenn. Facility

    Electrolux North America has recently begun production on its first Memphis, Tenn.-made home cooking appliances.

    The inaugural products produced at the Memphis facility, the Frigidaire and Frigidaire Gallery slide–in ranges, rolled off the assembly line, were crated and loaded onto trucks for warehousing and retail distribution throughout the United States. This marks the culmination of a two-year construction effort of the $266 million facility.

  • Sears selects Descartes’ home delivery solution

    Waterloo, Ontario -- Descartes Systems Group announced that Sears Holdings Corp. has selected Descartes' home delivery solution to enhance its ability to serve customers and improve the efficiency of its home delivery operations.

  • Another new wrinkle in the e-commerce revolution

    The retail industry continues to hurtle toward an omnichannel reality with the most recent example involving SharperImage.com and the integration of “buy now” mobile capabilities provided by Digimarc into its print catalogs.

  • Profit amplifier adds IT exec to board

    Veteran information technology executive Joe Zucchero has joined the board of advisors at big data solutions provider Profitect.

    Profitect said Zucchero’s expertise in IT operations, cross-organizational implementation, and an understanding of the technology needs of the retail industry aligned perfectly with the company’s suite of solutions.

  • Former Microsoft exec to develop gaming sector at Virtual Piggy

    Virtual Piggy has appointed Sébastien Motte to lead business development in the gaming sector.

  • SharperImage.com print catalogs to have embedded mobile capability

    Beaverton, Ore. -- Digimarc Corp. announced that SharperImage.com is using the Digimarc Discover platform to make it easy for consumers to simultaneously browse print catalogs, research and buy from their mobile device.

  • To ITO or Not to ITO: Retailers Ask the Question

    Information technology outsourcing (ITO) enables organizations to cut labor and infrastructure costs, improve operating efficiencies and increase flexibility in the IT department. Although certain aspects of retailing are ideally suited to out-of-house automation via ITO, the retail industry as a whole has not embraced ITO as much as some other industries.

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