/ Marketing

Leading online retailers focus on “searchandising”

More than half of best-in-class retailers surveyed use site search as a merchandising tool, and 70% say it helps to convert browsers to buyers, according to “Web Site Search: Revenue in the Results,” a new report from Aberdeen Group.

Posted 05/10/2007Paul DemeryPost a comment

Aberdeen Group expands retail practice

Technology research and consulting firm Aberdeen Group has added two analysts to its retail industry practice to expand the firm’s coverage of multi-channel integration and new technologies.

Posted 06/19/2006Kurt PetersPost a comment

/ Technology

How combining web-based task and workforce management benefits retailers

Web-based task management technology combined with web-based workforce management is helping retail chains bring store operations to a new level of consistent performance, industry analysts say.

Posted 04/19/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

Aberdeen Group names Paula Rosenblum director of retail research

Paula Rosenblum, former retail research director at AMR Research, has joined Aberdeen Group as director of retail research, where she will be responsible for creation of four major retailing reports over the next year.

Posted 03/29/2004Kurt PetersPost a comment

Technology: Flexible, bendable, profitable

E-merchants require technology that will “flex, bend and meet their complex needs,” says a new Aberdeen Group report.

Posted 02/28/2007Internet RetailerPost a comment

/ Press Release

Lynk Changes Company Name to RBS Lynk

Atlanta, GA - January 19, 2005 - Lynk Systems, Inc., a leading payment processor, announced today that following its acquisition by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group it has changed its company name to RBS Lynk Incorporated. The goal of the name change is to leverage the strength of the RBS brand name and more visibly align Lynk as a subsidiary of the RBS Group of companies. "The RBS Lynk name leverages the reputation of one of the world`s leading...

Posted 01/24/2005

/ Press Release

Amazon.co.uk to Open Second Fulfilment Centre

- Site Selected in Inverclyde, Scotland - Thursday May 20, 2004--Leading online retailer Amazon.co.uk today announced that it is planning to open a second UK fulfilment centre in Gourock, Inverclyde. The new facility, which is set to be operational in the second half of 2004*, is expected to create up to 300 new jobs within 18 months for employees in the local area. Amazon.co.uk`s decision to open a second UK fulfilment operation comes following...

Posted 05/20/2004

/ Press Release

IT Executives Expect to Increase Budgets, According to New Aberdeen Group Study

BOSTON, MA - September 24, 2002 -- Senior information technology executives plan to increase their budgets by an average of 3.7% over the next six-12 months, according to a recent survey by Aberdeen Group, a leading market analysis and positioning services firm. "We believe that this expected budget increase is indicative of a nascent resurgence in IT spending, especially since the same survey group indicated they planned to decrease budgets by...

Posted 10/02/2002