Department Store Retailer Ripley Selects Manthan Systems to Power its Retail Analytics

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - - Launch of IT Programme Management Company Certeco, a specialist IT Programme Management, Quality Assurance and Testing Services company are delighted to announce the launch of their company in the UK market. The focus of the company is to enable large enterprise business to control and verify IT business system implementations.

October 8th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - Manthan Systems, a leader in the Business Intelligence and Analytics software space, today unveiled the latest version of their product ARC 6.0. The new version of ARC features advanced analytics, data mining and optimization capabilities in their comprehensive performance management suite.

August 30th, 2009 CHICAGO - Manthan Systems, Inc., a leading producer of retail analytics and performance management solutions, today announced that The Kitchen Collection, Inc., a leading specialty retailer for kitchenware, has selected its popular retail analytics product, ARC Merchandise Analytics. Kitchen Collection was looking for a solution that would empower their merchandising and marketing teams with on-time, actionable information for decision making and ARC Merchandise Analytics was a good fit.

August 26th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts - - Market-leading columnar, MPP analytic DBMS chosen to reduce cost of data warehousing terabytes of retail data in North America and Europe Contemporary apparel and consumer products manufacturer Guess?, Inc. has selected the Vertica Analytic Database to help the rapidly growing company analyze dozens of terabytes of point-of-sale (POS), manufacturing, inventory, customer and store performance data in several global data centers.

August 17th, 2009 READING, England - - UK's largest catalogue retailer to sell COOL-ER ereader Only months after its worldwide launch, Interead Ltd., maker of the COOL-ER ereader, today announced that it has partnered with Argos, a leading UK catalogue and online retailer of consumer products, to sell COOL-ER ereaders. The distribution partnership is the first announced by Reading-based Interead, which launched the COOL-ER in May.

July 22nd, 2009 LONDON - - New Report Reveals it Pays to Collaborate, Rather Than Squeeze Suppliers New research published today reveals the retail and wholesale distribution industry could unleash a staggering GBP6.1 billion per year (3.8% of operating costs) by agreeing better, more mutually beneficial supplier-buyer deals. By thinking creatively about the terms involved in contract negotiation, suppliers and retailers could improve business performance, productivity and profitability.

July 8th, 2009 DUBAI - - An Episode of Paris Hilton's 'My New BFF Dubai' was Filmed at Salam Stores, Wafi, Dubai Salam Stores, the home-grown boutique department store concept in the Middle East with stores in Oman, Qatar and UAE, recently hosted actress, designer and entrepreneur Paris Hilton at their sprawling retail outfit in Dubai. Paris Hilton was visiting Dubai to film the third season of her popular reality show and Salam Stores became an associate for 'My New BFF Dubai'.

June 30th, 2009 LONDON - In a video interview Carrefour CEO Lars Olofsson explains how he's going to turn round the world's 2nd largest retailer. Also available, a guided video tour around three new store formats that Carrefour is introducing in France, its home market.

March 16th, 2009 SINGAPORE - Manthan Systems today announced the appointment Paul Gaddes in the position of Senior Vice President - Strategic Relationships (SEA). Paul comes to Manthan with over 14 years of experience in providing business and technology solutions across the retail and supply chain segments from both sales and implementation perspectives.

March 16th, 2009 CANBERRA, Australia - Australian specialty sporting goods retailer Sportsman's Warehouse today announced a successful deployment of ARC Retail Performance Management Suite 5.8 to improve their business performance with data driven decision making capabilities. The specialty retailer had deployed ARC for its unique, built-in decision making capabilities for fashion merchandising business processes.

June 4th, 2009 Target May same-store sales slip 6.1 percentMINNEAPOLIS — Target Corp. says its same-store sales declined worse than analysts expected in May.

May 8th, 2009 Jo-Ann 1Q same-store sales rise 1 percentHUDSON, Ohio — Craft and fabric retailer Jo-Ann Stores Inc. said Thursday its same-store sales rose 1 percent in the first quarter.

July 9th, 2009 Target June same-store sales fall 6.2 percentMINNEAPOLIS — Discount retailer Target says its same-store sales fell 6.2 percent in June as customers continued to shop sparingly and spend mainly on necessities such as healthcare products and food. Still, the Minneapolis-based company says it expects to meet or exceed analyst expectations for second-quarter profit.

August 11th, 2009 Select Comfort July same-store sales edge up 1 pctMINNEAPOLIS — Bed retailer Select Comfort Corp. said Tuesday that its same-store sales edged up 1 percent in July, partly helped by the closing of more than 50 stores.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - Former high street store Woolworths has made a comeback as an online retail company called Woolworths.co.uk. The brand was taken over by Shop Direct, the online and catalogue retailer owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, after the retailer collapsed leading to the shut down of 800 stores and a loss of 31,000 jobs.

July 30th, 2009 KOLKATA - Spencer's Retail Ltd, the retail arm of the Rs.150-billion RPG Enterprises, has seen a revenue growth of 15 to 16 percent in the quarter ended June 30, a top official said Thursday. "Sales per square feet are actually going up.

May 30th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Wal-Mart Stores Incorporation opened its first cash-and-carry store in Amritsar on Saturday. Bharti Wal-Mart, the joint venture between the American retailer and India's Bharti Enterprises, was scheduled to launch the store on Tuesday.

July 9th, 2009 PLANO, Texas — J. C. Penney Co. said Thursday its June same-store sales fell 8.2 percent, but beat analysts' expectations.

August 3rd, 2009 German retail sales down 1.8 pct in JuneBERLIN — German retail sales saw an unexpected month-on-month fall in June as the global crisis maintained its grip on Europe's biggest economy, an official estimate showed Monday. The 1.8 percent drop compared with May followed a 1.3 percent decline the previous month.

August 26th, 2009 DSW 2Q profit beats Street viewCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Shoe retailer DSW Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit fell 31 percent but it still beat Wall Street's consensus prediction.