In This Issue

Data Warehousing
E-Commerce
Green Retailing
International
Loss Prevention & Security
Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances
Operations Software
Price Optimization
Space Planning
Supply Chain & Logistics
Who's Who
Submissions & Subscriptions

Helzberg Diamonds has chosen the Netezza Performance Server appliance for its enterprise data warehouse platform, serving more than 260 stores.

Melissa & Doug, a designer and manufacturer of educational toys and children's products, will launch a corporate website and online store powered by the Shopatron eCommerce platform.

Patagonia.com has implemented Where 2 Get It product locator technology to manage daily inventory management updates from Patagonia's online retailers and provide automated inventory level reporting.

Supermarketer HEB has signed a deal to research the use of vertical wind turbines at its grocery stores. The retailer says the study will take place at a company "retail support center" in south Texas. Working with Wind Energy Corp., HEB will conduct an 18- to 24-month observation and analysis of wind power opportunities in south Texas. Wind Energy will manage the installation, data collection and research associated with the project.

Morrisons, the U.K.'s fourth-largest supermarket group, has entered into a strategic relationship with Oracle to help increase operational flexibility across the business. Morrisons has purchased a prototype Oracle footprint that includes a suite of merchandising, planning and stores applications; the E-Business Suite; Oracle's Siebel CRM and Oracle Fusion Middleware. The grocer plans to implement the products over the next five years.

The Carphone Warehouse is implementing RedPrairie’s Execution Management application to view all aspects of store operations. The retailer operates 2,400 stores under The Carphone Warehouse banner in the U.K., The Phone House in European markets and in the U.S. market with partner Best Buy.

ACI Worldwide, an international provider of software for electronic payment systems, has formed a partnership with Infoglide Software, a provider of identity resolution and analysis software. The companies have combined resources to provide enhancements around returns authorization, loss prevention intelligence, employee risk screening and eFencing intelligence.

CKE Restaurants has approved HyperActive Technologies as a preferred provider of drive-through timer and OCB (order confirmation board) solutions.

Airport Wireless has selected Tomax’ Retail.net solution to support the 32-store airport retail chain. Additional Tomax solutions to be implemented include Tomax Portals, Workflow and Activity Management and Retail Analytics.

Hobby Lobby has selected SAP America’s flagship enterprise resource planning software, SAP ERP, to provide a solution platform to help manage operations.

C&K Market has selected StoreNext Retail Technologies’ Connected Services suite of web-based applications to manage the regional chain. C&K owns and operates 49 Ray’s Food Place stores in northern California and Oregon and five Shop Smart stores, five Price Less Food locations and 12 Pharmacy Express locations.

Hart Schaffner & Marx, a subsidiary of Hartmarx, is implementing New Generation Computing’s e-PLM for Product Lifecycle Management and TPM for shop floor control.

Grand Union Family Markets has chosen Revionics as its solution provider for price optimization. The portfolio includes price optimization, promotional planning and optimization, category analytics and competitive price auditing. Grand Union operates stores in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

Wesco, a self-distributed operator of convenience stores, has selected the KSS suite of fuel-pricing products -- PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile and KSS Visualizer -- for company-wide implementation.

Pacific Northwest grocer Haggen has selected the KSS Retail price modeling, optimization and forecasting solution to be used by its merchants for promotional and everyday pricing.

Winn-Dixie has selected Information Resources Inc.’s retail space planning software, IRI Apollo Designer Workstation, to optimize the performance of its retail shelf space, reduce out-of-stocks and improve customer satisfaction. The supermarketer operates 521 stores in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi.

The Charles C. Parks Co., a regional distributor to convenience stores in the southern United States, will upgrade the supply chain technology in its Gallatin, Tenn.-based warehouse with Retalix PowerWarehouse, Retalix Power Voice and Retalix Power Productivity software solutions.

Retail Equation, a provider of retail transaction optimization solutions, has named Bob Walters and Tom Rittman to its sales and marketing team.

Jim Kuschill has joined RewardStream, a provider of SaaS loyalty marketing technology, as vice president of market development.

John Karonis has been named managing director, consumer products division, North America, at global consulting firm Kurt Salmon Associates.

Bart Petterle has joined Revionics as senior vice president of sales.

Hypercom has appointed Heidi R. Goff as president and managing director, the Americas.

James K. Marstiller has been named senior vice president at TNS Retail Forward, a global management consulting and market research firm specializing in retail intelligence and shopper insights.

Nick Pahade has joined GSI Commerce as president of gsi interactive.