Betfair

Betfair is delighted to announce the winners of its first Technology Supplier of the Year Awards. [MORE]

Harrods

Harrods is an upscale department store on Brompton Road in London’s Knightsbridge region. The store was founded in 1834 in London’s East End, when founder Charles Henry Harrod set up a wholesale grocery operation. [MORE]

Ocado enhances the retail experience with BSI and Sun

Ocado is a revolutionary online supermarket, designed to change consumers shopping habits and make supermarket shopping a quick and easy, stress-free and enjoyable experience. In partnership with Waitrose, Ocados dedicated home delivery service includes online access to hundreds of offers on Waitrose goods, with free delivery for orders of £75 .....[MORE]

Pronto, an integrated POS Enterprise Management System, running on the future-resilient Sun Microsystems Platform

Jessops, the UK's leading specialist photographic and equipment retailer, is moving its Head Office and point of sale operations to PRONTO, an integrated POS Enterprise Management System implemented by Productivity Computer Solutions (PCS).

With approximately 14 million transactions taking place every year and this figure likely to grow, Jessops were .....[MORE]

Sun Flowers!

Formed over 75 years ago, Interflora has grown to become one of the world's largest and most popular flower delivery networks with 2000 member florists in the UK and Ireland, and 60,000 members worldwide, delivering flowers to 146 countries. Interfloras services can be accessed through a number of channels, .....[MORE]

Radii and Sun shine on Furniture Village's success

Two years after the initial rollout of its Furniture Retail System (FRS) system, major furniture retailer, Furniture Village, has the system in daily use throughout all of its 28 stores - and the benefits achieved from the system have repaid Furniture Village's FRS investment many times over.

The first store .....[MORE]

Sun E1000 cluster powers Dixon's Growth

Sun Microsystems has successfully completed the installation of a cluster of high-performance E10000 servers at leading consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group - providing the ideal solution to Dixons' need to update its Information Systems (IS) infrastructure, in anticipation of growing market demands.

The UK-based Dixons Group specialises in the sale of .....[MORE]

Jewson builds its catalogue operation with help of lago CMS

Jewson, the UK's largest timber, plumbing and builders merchant, has set up a catalogue operation to complement its UK wide network of trade branches, using Lago Catalogue Management System installed by Productivity Computer Solutions (PCS),

Jewson currently issues a monthly 74 page catalogue with variants and a full product catalogue .....[MORE]

The proof of the pudding

When you buy a product, you expect the people selling you that product to display some commitment to using it themselves. You would ask questions, for instance, if the man or woman trying to sell you a BMW then drove home in a Volvo.

It was for this reason that Clarity .....[MORE]

Aspective makes CRM plain sailing for Setfair.com

Setfair.com is a leading e-market place for the maritime industry, enabling ship owners, operators, shipyards and ports to procure everything they need to build and keep shipping maintained, repaired and operational. Thousands of individual suppliers will be able to provide everything from anchors and chains to state of the art .....[MORE]

Shops need to communicate

Traditionally shopping malls appear to be relatively simple in their design and construction. They consisted of individual shop units, and one or more food courts and car parks. As far as the consumer was concerned, that's usually about it. However, the new generation of Shopping centre destinations offer a completely .....[MORE]

onlinehighstreet.com fills its shopping basket at PCS

OnlineHighstreet.com is a unique three-dimensional high street on the Internet. The site enables the user to navigate through a virtual representation of a traditional 'bricks and mortar' shopping centre. The main high street features 'shops' from many household names such as Boots, WHSmith, Carphone Warehouse, Barclays and Blockbuster. 'Avenues' leading .....[MORE]

Scottish and Newcastle retail goes for growth with Sun

Formed in 1990, Scottish and Newcastle Retail ('S&NR') is one of the UK's leading pub and leisure companies, with a national presence of over 2,300 outlets spanning restaurants, bars, pubs, hotels, nightclubs and food-led entertainment centres.

S&NR's relationship with Sun Microsystems began in the mid-1990s, when Sun was approached by S&NR .....[MORE]

Sun Ray solution shines at Pauleys

As part of a major re-development of its core business systems, Northamptonshire-based fresh food procurement and distribution company, W Pauley and Company (Pauleys), has swapped out its network of 'Wyse 60' dumb terminals and PCs in favour of a desktop solution based on Sun Microsystems Sun Ray technology.

Pauleys employs .....[MORE]

Sun Enhances the Nation's Wellbeing

When leading UK health and beauty retailer, Boots, and leading European TV production company, Granada, joined forces to create a new, independent Internet and broadband company, the result was Wellbeing - a multi-channel proposition which aims to be a major British e-business for health, beauty and well-being.

Wellbeing comprises a sophisticated .....[MORE]