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You’ve voted for them, now come and watch them win. The Supplier of the Year Awards evening is just one of the highlights of this year’s ECMOD Show, celebrating the sector’s most trusted suppliers.
Taking place on Wednesday 30th November, tickets are a snip at only £25. If you book more than five places, tickets cost just £20 each. To book your tickets and enjoy drinks and canapés with colleagues and peers, call us now on 01271 866112; you can find more details online at www.ecmod360.co.uk.
So round up the team and come to toast the suppliers who’ve been your biggest supporters throughout 2011. We look forward to seeing you there!
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The Gro Company, a marketer of baby sleepwear, has upgraded its order fulfilment with an integrated warehouse management system from IT provider Balloon One. The wireless real-time system will enable orders to be picked, packed and made ready for despatch within seven minutes of receipt.
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Online bed and mattress retailer BedzRus has launched a mobile website developed by Sayu. BedzRus has seen traffic from mobile devices grow from 3.87 percent of total site traffic in October 2010 to 11.72 percent in 2011.
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SSI Schaefer, the logistics systems supplier, has designed and installed its dual-purpose picking and storage system for Integrated Distribution Services (IDS) Logistics on behalf of high street fashion retailer Republic to manage the storage, picking and distribution of its flat-packed garments.
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Department-store chain ouse of Fraser is using ChannelAdvisor’s marketplaces platform to sell clearance items through eBay.
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Joules, the fashion retailer, has installed Island Pacific’s merchandising and store operations planning software. The solution will be used across all channels, including retail, web, mail order, international and wholesale.
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Toolbank, a distributor of hand and powered tools, has appointed Conveyor Systems (CSL) to streamline its order picking process. The new system will reduce manual handling, improve efficiency and accuracy of order picking.
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There’s just one more edition of Direct Commerce before 2012. Here’s what’s coming up in the November/December issue:
Supercharged Marketing: last-minute tips and tweaks to help merchants hone their Christmas campaigns, our close-up on marketing will explore how you can drive sales without blowing the budget.
ECMOD in Focus: the who’s who and what’s what of ECMOD Direct Commerce Show 2011. Containing a full exhibitor list, comprehensive conference programme, news from the floor and content from speakers and conference leaders.
Want to know more? Subscribe today and for £65 a year (UK) you’ll receive 10 issues and all our supplements. Plus, you’ll gain complete access to our website where you can read subscriber-only articles from our regular contributors, as well as all our Q&A interviews with industry leaders and up-and-comers, in-depth web and catalogue critiques, and much more. For more details click here.
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Discount apparel etailer M and M Direct has confirmed that chief executive Steve Robinson has left the company, a spokesperson declined to comment further.
Philip Cooksey, formerly head of sales at Technogym, has been made UK sales director of fitness equipment company York Fitness.
Abcam, a producer, distributor and marketer of antibodies for scientific research, has appointed two ecommerce heavyweights to help power its next stage of growth. The new directors are Murray Hennessy, currently chief executive of thetrainline.com, and former commercial director of John Lewis Department Stores and Michael Ross, founder of ecommerce services company eCommera and cofounder of lingerie etailer Figleaves.
