Marketing & Ops Industry News

1. Life Is Good Leverages Demandware To Spread The Power Of Optimism In The Digital Space
   5/16/2012

   Demandware, Inc.,  a leader in on-demand ecommerce, recently announced that Life is good, the iconic lifestyle brand whose mission is to spread the power of optimism and help kids in need, has selected Demandware Commerce as the central platform to support its digital growth strategy.

2. VeriFone Media Brings Sky News Into London’s Taxis
   5/16/2012

   VeriFone Systems, Inc., recently announced an agreement with Sky News to broadcast news bulletins in London's iconic licensed taxis.

3. Demandware Extends Multichannel Strength With New Solution
   5/15/2012

   Demandware, Inc. (NYSE: DWRE), a global leader in on-demand ecommerce, today announced its expanded Multichannel Commerce Offering with its new solution, a comprehensive and prescriptive framework that enables high-growth retailers to extend the power of digital commerce to point-of-sale, kiosks, smart phones, tablets and other web-enabled devices.

4. RPE Consulting Receives JDA Alliances 2012 Leadership Award
   5/10/2012

   Retail consulting firm RPE was recently honored during the JDA Alliances 2012 Leadership Awards ceremony at JDA FOCUS 2012 in Las Vegas. Tom Dziersk, executive vice president, sales and marketing, JDA Software Group, Inc., presented the award to RPE for the Americas Retail Top Specialty Consultant. By JDA Software

5. Shoppers Are Making More Purchasing Decisions In-Store Than Ever Before
   5/9/2012

   The Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI), the global association for the marketing at retail industry, recently released findings from its 2012 Shopper Engagement Study.

6. New Independent Case Study Details How Knotice Customer Generated 10 Times More Revenue And Connected The Digital Dots With Customer-Focused Messaging
   5/3/2012

   Knotice, a provider of direct digital marketing software and services, recently announced that Forrester Research Inc. has released an independent, non-commissioned report on the improved marketing ROI of Knotice customer, Oreck, a vacuum and cleaning equipment manufacturer. 

7. Retail Hiring Down In April; Partly A Result Of Early Warm Weather Hiring In February
   5/3/2012

   Kronos Incorporated recently announced the May release of the Kronos® Retail Labor Index™, a family of metrics and indices that characterize the current state of the demand and supply sides of the labor market within the U.S. retail sector.

8. Upscale British Retailer Chooses A&O Danner For 5 Shops In New England
   5/1/2012

   In 2010, Jack Wills University Outfitters a British high-end clothing and accessories retailer, decided to cross the Atlantic and expand into New England. Following exhaustive due diligence and referrals, the company chose A&O Danner Companies, Inc., a builder and general contractor based in Plymouth, Mass., to build their first U.S. stores.

9. Smashburger Accelerates Customer Satisfaction With Empathica Local
   4/25/2012

   Empathica Inc., a leading provider of Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions to more than 200 of the world’s most respected brands, announced recently that it has equipped restaurant chain Smashburger with the means to attain a full 5.5 percent increase in guest satisfaction just two months into Smashburger’s implementation of Empathica Local. 

10. First Insight Named One Of Leading Analyst Firm’s ‘Cool Vendors’ In Retail For 2012
    4/25/2012

    First Insight, Inc., a technology company transforming how leading retailers make new product investment decisions, announced it was chosen as a Cool Vendor in Retail for 2012 by Gartner Inc.