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Combines the power of location with the scale of TV to deliver targeted media to the right audience at the right time USIM (U.S. International Media), the fast-growing independent media agency, has announced a strategic relationship with Inscape, the leading provider of smart TV viewing data from more than 14 million smart TVs. USIM was recently recognized as the Independent Media Agency of the Year for 2019 by MediaPost based on the agency’s innovative approach to unlock location mapping and TV data and apply it in ways…

Lands’ End styles for the entire family coming to Kohls.com and select Kohl’s stores beginning fall 2020 Kohl’s announced a new partnership with Lands’ End to offer the retailer’s entire assortment of women’s, men’s, kids, and home merchandise on Kohls.com, directly fulfilled and shipped by Lands’ End, beginning fall 2020. In addition, Kohl’s will bring Lands’ End merchandise, with a particular focus on seasonal goods for the family, including outerwear in fall/winter and swimwear in spring/summer, to 150 stores beginning…

Global fashion brand launches omni order management, mobile point of service and inventory management, all run on iPhone apps NewStore, the first to provide Omnichannel-as-a-Service, today announced ANINE BING has launched the NewStore Omnichannel Platform, putting iPhone apps in the hands of associates worldwide. Mobile point of service unlocks in-store revenue drivers like mobile checkout, clienteling and endless aisle. Inventory is managed efficiently and accurately to support weekly product drops, and omni order…

Sonata Software announced signing of definitive agreements to acquire GAPbusters Limited (GBW), the Melbourne headquartered company that has been amongst pioneers in the CX domain, serving renowned brands globally for nearly thirty years. As companies are increasingly focusing on measuring and managing customer experience to stoke their growth, CX solutions are playing a significant part in most organizations' digital transformation initiatives. As per Fortune Business insights, "The demand for customer experience…

Enterprises on a mission to improve their customer experience (CX) will be able to access unrivaled technology and distinctive professional services from the combined firm InMoment and MaritzCX, recognized market leaders and proven innovators in the global customer experience (CX) sector, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine the two companies. The combined company will immediately support over 2,000 leading brands with a global team of 1,500 employees located in 20 offices spanning North…

OTTO.nl, one of the world's leading retail eCommerce brands chose Insider, the first integrated AI-powered Growth Management Platform, to drive personalization and growth across its digital channels. Insider will supplement OTTO.nl's vision to drive growth through effective customer segmentation and its AI-powered platform to deliver truly relevant experiences. "Personalization is an important driver for growth within OTTO.nl and crucial in delivering an optimal shopping experience. Insider is a partner that helps us…

Stable, high performance, with support for rapid growth Financial services firms are facing up to the challenges of rapid change as they transform to become truly digital businesses. Retail and investment banking, insurance companies and brokerages all serve customers who are demanding ever-higher service levels through mobile and application interfaces. All face tough regulators who demand ever-higher levels of data protection and availability. There is also more competition than ever, from new entrants and challenger…

Trax, a leading provider of computer vision and analytics solutions for retail, announced its acquisition of Qopius, a top provider of AI-based in-store technology solutions in Europe. The acquisition will serve as a force multiplier in pushing real-time store monitoring and autonomous inventory management into mainstream adoption, helping retailers across the world embrace data and digital innovation to cut costs and boost sales at every shelf. Retailers and consumer goods manufacturers around the world leverage Trax’s…

There is little doubt that every retailer needs to be considering some kind of transformation. The UK just suffered its worst year for retail sales by some measures and the industry has been in a state of rapid evolution for years. For retailers, like H&M, with large, physical footprints, leveraging a brick-and-mortar network to better serve customers makes a lot of sense. Consumers expect to be able to buy and return items on multiple channels. They want to be able to buy what they want when they want to and on the…

"Personalization tech powers regional call outs, product recommendations, local inventory counts and maps that drive foot traffic and sales." What are some of the changes you’re seeing in retail and how are they impacting consumer behavior? Retailers these days are easing the tension between mobile and brick-and-mortar. Brick-and-mortar stores are addressing the issue of showrooming—when people visit a store to look at a product and then buy it online elsewhere for a lower price— by pricing their merchandise…

The retail sector is going through a monumental transformation. The deepening high street crisis is placing huge pressure to keep customers coming through the doors – while increasing back-office efficiencies to cut costs. Automation in the Workplace RPA is growing fast: Gartner Inc. predicts that by the end of 2022, 85% of large and very large organizations will have adopted some form of RPA. That’s because RPA offers not just productivity benefits, but also a reduction in error rates and huge processing capability. It…

Visionary innovation experts conduct a webinar on the segments redefining the future of retail The retail industry will undergo massive changes as the age of disruption continues to impact consumer behaviors and buying trends. In this constant flux, retailers should understand and prepare strategies to retain customers and gain an edge over the competition. Marketing Technology News: RingCentral Named a November 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide…

Cegid’s luxury and fashion retail customers are able to turn on Chinese QR mobile payments to grow top-line revenue and streamline the payment process CITCON, a leading cross-border mobile payment and marketing platform has teamed up with Cegid, a unified commerce solution leader with POS management solutions for luxury and fashion, beauty and specialty retail, to launch Chinese QR mobile payments Alipay, WeChat Pay and UnionPay QR, empowering luxury and fashion retail brands to streamline their in-store payment process…

Lowe's makes technology investments to deliver exceptional customer experiences and empower store associates Google Cloud and Lowe's announced the two companies are expanding their work together to create a best-in-class technology foundation to help Lowe's deliver exceptional customer experiences and empower store associates with tools to better serve customers, regardless of how they shop. This technology foundation for the home improvement company includes new investments toward modernizing Lowes' e-commerce,…

AI-fortified, cloud-ready SAS Intelligent Planning Suite enhances the customer experience for global retailers and consumer goods manufacturers NRF 109th NRF Big Show and EXPO – Recent enhancements to the SAS Intelligent Planning Suite have infused it with artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud agility to help companies localize assortments, optimize inventory, automate forecasting and maximize profits. Leading companies like Carrefour, Grupo Exito and Nestle rely on analytics leader SAS and its proven portfolio of software…

The Company to Debut Its New Products at the NRF 2020, the Largest Retail Technology Event in North America, on the Coming 12th Attends NRF 2020, the largest retail technology event in North America, to showcase new IoT RFID products for establishment of enterprise RFID environment. Plans to expand its position in the related market through strategic products with strong partnership. With two decades of effort in development of advancing technology, take another leap forward global top tier through new IoT RFID…

David Brown has joined Manifest as Executive Chairman, effective January 1.  Manifest was recently named the 2019 Content Marketing Agency of the Year by the Content Marketing Institute. In this new position, Brown will oversee all aspects of Manifest, with a focus on continuing growth throughout North America. "We couldn't be more excited to have David join our team," said Eric Goodstadt, Manifest's President. "Building on our success in the past few years, David's deep…

To generate the trends likely to affect the luxury industry in 2020, Luxury Institute conducted a crowdsourcing project with its Global Luxury Expert Network at the end of 2019. The Global Luxury Expert Network (GLEN) is a growing network of hundreds of luxury goods and services experts who form the core of Luxury Institute’s research, training, and business solutions teams. The network is made up of the best minds in the industry who have a minimum of 12-years of operating experience and are current and/or former C-level, …

77% of retail leaders report that a recurring revenue model is a prerequisite for doing business According to a new study conducted by NAPCO Research and commissioned by Ordergroove, the leader in Relationship Commerce, retail leaders are experiencing growing return from recurring revenue programs - such as subscriptions, memberships, reordering, clubs and boxes - with the majority of respondents indicating they consider these programs a “prerequisite for doing business.” Findings from the study, “Retail 2020:…

"AI can process millions of data points, detect the correlation between them, see the patterns no one can see, and use all of these to offer proper insights for the right decisions." Could you let us know your journey into technology? What inspired you to start Competera? I’ve always wanted to get away from my past in Consultancy. I remember how it took consultants a lot of time and money to generate the same price and promo recommendations based on econometrics, mathematical statistics and sales forecast for different…