CashStar Secures $12 Million in Funding
CashStar announced that it has secured $12 million in funding to support its growth in the digital gifting business, a rapidly growing segment of the $90 billion plus gift card market.
Kantar Media Reports Strong Digital Coupon Support For New Product Introductions in the First Nine Months of 2011
In the first nine months of 2011, 214 new products included free-standing insert (FSI) coupon support as part of their introduction according to Marx, a Kantar Media Solution. Digital coupons were used in 83 of these 214…
Oracle Honors Winners of the Inaugural 2011 Consumer Goods Industry Excellence Awards
Oracle announced the inaugural 2011 Consumer Goods Industry Excellence Award recipients including Diamond Foods, Herbalife International, Hormel Foods, Land O’Lakes, PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble at OpenWorld 2011.
Westwood Financial Corp. Makes Another Value-Add Retail Purchase
Westwood Financial Corp., one of the largest owner-operators of shopping centers in the U.S., has purchased the 24,452-square-foot Crossroads of Tempe retail center in the Arizona town. It is the company’s latest transaction toward the company’s value-add…
Retex Provides Retail Members a New Way to Connect to Their Customers with Text Messaging
Retex, a technology and business solutions buying consortium for retailers, has partnered with Mobile Advantages, to provide retail members mobile messaging solutions.
Hollywood Blockbusters & Traditional Favorites Dominate SortPrice.com’s Annual Top 10 Halloween Costume Lists for 2011
Consumers in 2011 are overwhelmingly targeting costume themes from some of the year’s biggest movies, as well as considering traditional Halloween classics, according to shopping search engine SortPrice.com’s annual list of the most popular Halloween costumes released…
Ugam Interactive Increases Competitive Intelligence Reporting
Ugam Interactive has redesigned its competitor monitoring solution, PriceTrac, to offer more report choices. The new release include usage reports for senior management, deeper assortment intelligence, and custom configuration.
Black Box iCOMPEL Receives TMC 2010 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award
Black Box Corporation, a leading communications system integrator dedicated to designing, sourcing, implementing, and maintaining today’s complex communications solutions, announced today that its iCOMPEL™ platform for digital signage has won TMC’s 2010 Communications Solutions Product of the…
Campbell Significantly Expands Healthy Request(R) Soup Line with Eight New Varieties
The new soups bring the Healthy Request product line, which offers heart-healthy versions of some of Campbell’s most popular condensed, Chunky and Select Harvest soups, to 33 varieties. All contain 410 milligrams of sodium per serving, meet…
DemandTec-Sponsored Research to be Unveiled at Consumer Goods Technology Conference
DemandTec, the collaborative optimization network for retailers and consumer products companies, today announced that the 2011 Consumer Goods Technology/Gartner Tech Trends Report, sponsored in part by DemandTec, will be unveiled at the Consumer Goods Business & Technology…