YUM International, owners of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchise brand, has added spice to its digital data management and virtual communication channels in South Africa with a Syncrony-developed central data clearing service. Syncrony is a Gauteng-based provider of Web design and content management services.

Episys has been selected to supply its Immediate Impact signage solution to the owner of two franchise supermarket stores in South Africa – Friendly Stores and Seven Eleven.

UCS Group and Cordys have signed a collaboration agreement that marks the beginning of flexibility for retailers’ software solutions.

ProScan Media Products (PMP) has extended their in-line coding and labelling solutions offering with the introduction of a range of label applicators from Collamat.

Alworths, a new chain of general merchandise stores in the UK, is using Immediate Impact from Episys, a global information technology services company, to ensure it has professional looking signage in place in time for its first store which opened earlier this month.

UCS Software Manufacturing (UCSSM), the software factory within the UCS Group, is to exhibit at the National Retail Federation’s 99th Annual Convention and Expo to be held in New York City from 10 to 13 January 2010.

With heightened competition in the marketplace it has become critical for retailers to connect more frequently and relevantly with their customers, and they are managing to achieve this through gearing their technology infrastructure to support marketing automation solutions.

QlikTech has unveiled how its dynamic analysis of information is delivering top and bottom line results across the retail and wholesale industries. More than 1 000 global retail and wholesale companies using QlikView include Alessi, Body Shop Italia, Eden Park, Fila Europe, Grotto (Gas Jeans), HR Group, Magasin, National Frozen Foods, Robinsons Group, Stonefly, Siba, The Cocoa Trees, Verdecora, VIP Auto, Visionlab, and WH Smith.

Running a retail or wholesale business in the hardware/building supply industry in the current economic climate requires innovative, affordable and effective IT solutions in order to remain profitable and competitive.

In-store media services provider Primedia Instore has embarked on a mobile technology implementation drive that will enable its retail store promotional staff countrywide to report back on individual store campaigns to regional and head offices on-line in real time no matter where they are.

Retail is one of the first industries to feel the immediate effects of lower disposable income and reduced consumer demand. At the same time, the typical retailer runs a labour-intensive operation where operating costs are fairly fixed.

An easy-to-use, flexible payroll solution is an important requirement for any company, writes Sharon Tayfield, operations director at Praxima Africa Payroll Systems.