Confectionery comes up trumps

Barclaycard data suggests that online retailers could miss out on one of the biggest trading periods of the year as a last minute in store shopping rush is expected on Valentine’s Day this Sunday.

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Emerging importance

Nestlé has caused a lot of speculation with the appointment of Wal-mart executive Wan Ling Martello as chief financial officer as a successor to Jim Singh. She is currently Walmart’s executive vice president of global e-commerce and emerging markets and has been involved in the food manufacturing sector before at Kraft Foods and Borden Foods. […]

Actinic and Oxatis join forces in EU SME e-commerce

UK ecommerce vendor Actinic has agreed a strategic partnership with Oxatis, one of the main ecommerce providers in France, Spain and Italy. The joint venture will create a European group providing ecommerce systems to the start-up and SME markets with a customer portfolio approaching 20,000 e-tailers.

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