Archive for August, 2011

Event Organisers Please Take Note

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

September and October are incredibly busy months as the industry gets back to work after the July and August holiday season. As you can see from our events calendar every week in September there is an event. That’s all well and dandy but there’s a problem and it’s a big problem that needs to be […]

C-nario Lose Prominent Space At ISE

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In a move that says more about the vendor C-nario than the event ISE it looks like the former has pulled out of the latter in any large, meaningful way as we have yet found no mention of C-nario on the latest ISE floorplans. C-nario were always one of the vendors to take very prominent […]

Harrods Unveils New Digital Advertising Opportunities

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Harrods is set to offer its brands and clients the very latest in digital media advertising. The unveiling of a revamped state-of-the-art escalator complete with the latest generation of digital screens follows a multi-million pound redevelopment programme. The redesign of Harrods escalator 10, located at the stores premium entrance on Hans Road, reveals a minimalist, […]

NEC Competence Day, Köln

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We’ve ONLY heard good things about how good most of these NEC events are around Europe. These ‘special lectures’ from NEC and its solution partners explain market trends, growth opportunities and best practices for the implementation and management of projector and display solutions. The next NEC Competence day next week in Köln, Germany features a […]

CIO Retail Summit Random Photos

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

While we’ll be following up the CIO Retail Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, with more articles over the next few days, you might want to see if you recognize anyone you know in these casual photos here at the – highly recommended – Phoenician Resort at the foot of Camailback Mountain…

London To Amsterdam in 24 Hours

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Hats off to Harris Systems Limited’s International Marketing Director Ciarán Doran who will be leading a group of ten cyclists to ride from the headquarters of the International Broadcasting Convention in central London to the IBC show in Amsterdam (approximately 300 miles). They depart at 3pm on Saturday afternoon 3rd September with the aim of […]

Cognizant’s 2011 Shopper Survey

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Getting my vote as best speaker of the first full day at the CIO Retail Summit was Steven Skinner, vice-president, business consulting, retail, consumer goods and hospitality practice leader at Atlanta-based Cognizant, who gave detailed results on the recently-released 2nd annual Cognizant Shopper Experience Study. The survey involved 4,000 participants: 2,500 the U.S. and the […]

The Month Ahead (September 2011)

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are literally dozens of industry events during September and October. From our events calendar (no-one out there – not even the industry associations have one of these you know) here’s a closer look at everything happening in September … Friday 9th September sees the month kick off with IBC 2011 in Amsterdam. Overlapping that […]

There’s Been A Murder

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Media Displays‘ Digivans were used for an appeal in Nottingham, UK for the murder of a young mum. Last Friday† Police took to the streets, using this latest crime fighting weapon to identify a suspect and to gain vital information relating to the murder of young mum, 28 year old Caroline Coyne. Nottinghamshire Police used […]

Daktronics To Roll LCDs In Oz

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are hearing that Daktronics is close to completing an LCD project (yes an LCD project) for Westfield malls in Australia this month – something that will compliment their existing LED in mall big screens. Daktronics we believe are supplying software, service and integration for 10 locations around the Australian Westfield Mall properties. Each location […]