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RETAIL TECHNOLOGY HELPS Marketing Expo
SET DIGITAL SIGNAGE SCENE
(SMX) London
announced
Retail & Transport Cards
that Brian
2009
B
PL Broadcast Limited has a variety of commercial environments Fetherstonhaugh,
13th and 14th May 2009 launched a new website such as retail, public arenas, sports
chairman and
Copthorne Tara Hotel, Kensington, –
DigitalSignageScene.com stadia and transport concourses.
chief executive
London
– dedicated to supporting the needs News content for the website is
of OgilyvyOne
www.smi-online.co.uk/rtcards2.asp
of the fast expanding digital signage controlled by Miya Knights, editor of
Worldwide, will
community. Retail Technology and the Digital Signage
be the keynote
Retail Systems Forum 2009
speaker at this
13th and 14th May 2009 The new site will provide news and in Focus electronic newsletter. The
year’s event. As
Oxfordshire Country Golf Club,
analysis on the digital signage industry, site will also be supported by other
one of the world’s
Oxfordshire
including information on forthcoming broadcast and technology titles within
most in ¾ uential
www.retailsystemsforum.com
events. And it will support the Digital the BPL stable including IBE, C2M and
marketing
European IT Excellence Signage Zone at IBC2009 – a new Comms Dealer. executives, he will
Awards
visitor attraction at IBC, the broadcast A speci ½ c section of the site will open proceedings
14th May 2009
industry’s leading international be dedicated to supporting the Digital
on 18th May with
InterContinental Hotel, Prague
conference and exhibition. It, in turn, Signage Zone at IBC2009, which will
a strategic view of
www.iteawards.com
will be supported by and reinforce a bring together many of the organisations
how marketing is
The Search Marketing Expo new bi-weekly electronic newsletter and technologies that are emerging as
evolving and the
(SMX) London
critical role search
– “Digital Signage in Focus”. major forces in this new medium at the
18th – 19th May 2009
must play.
A recent report by MultiMedia heart of the broadcast industry’s leading
New Connaught Rooms, London
Intelligence predicts that the digital international conference and exhibition.
searchmarketingexpo.com/
signage market will more than double The Digital Signage Zone at
london/2009
in size by 2012 to consume 2.3 million IBC2009 is being jointly developed and
Sustainabilitylive!
displays, having grown by 34% from marketed by IBC, IT Europa and BPL.
19th – 21st May 2009
2007 to 2008 to 1.1 million displays. The IBC2009 exhibition takes place
NEC, Birmingham
www.digitalsignagescene.com will focus from 11th – 15th September 2009
www.sustainabilitylive.com
on the technologies, solutions and at the RAI, Amsterdam. IBC attracts
CHINA HI-END RETAIL 2009
content driving the dramatic growth more than 49,000 visitors and 1,400
26th and 27th May 2009
in the deployment of digital signage in exhibitors from 130 countries.
Shanghai, China
www.chinahiendretail.com
Mobile Retailing 2009
ADIDAS BRINGS HIGH STREET TO EVENTS
3rd June 2009
Westminster, London
Rapid Retail, supplier of portable
www.retail-knowledge.com
retail units and kiosks to sports stadia,
ECR Europe Forum &
entertainment venues and leading
Marketplace
retail brands, is taking the High Street
3rd – 5th June 2009 on the road for Adidas.
Barcelona, Spain
The company has provided three
forum.ecrnet.org
branded kiosks designed to look and
eTail Europe 2009
feel exactly like Adidas’s High Street
X In the new
8th – 10th June 2009
stores. The units will travel to sporting and Liverpool, can reproduce exact
global economy
Marriott Grosvenor Square, London
prepaid cards offer
events across the UK in the coming replicas of any High Street store down
www.etaileurope.com
a new channel
year to support the brand’s wholesale to the smallest details.
for businesses
European Supply Chain and
clients, increase brand awareness and There are considerable advantages
and consumers
Logistics Summit 2009
create new retail opportunities in to big brands taking their stores to
to control spend.
8th – 10th June 2009
tough market conditions. the customer said Nick Daffern,
Following its
Swissôtel Düsseldorf, Germany
successful launch
www.supplychain.eu.com
The units were unveiled at the managing director of Rapid Retail:
last year, Prepaid
European Retail Technology
Silverstone Flora Marathon in April, “Portable units are a ¾ exible and low
09, Europe’s largest
Summit
where over 8,000 runners kept the cost way of enhancing your brand
prepaid conference
9th – 10th June 2009
tills busy. Adidas will lease these units and increasing your retail footprint.
and exhibition
Dorint Hotel Amsterdam-Airport,
from Rapid Retail, who will manage all How many big brands use trucks and
is returning to
The Netherlands The Brewery in
www.ehi.org/itsummit09
transport and logistics for an initial 12- grubby marquees to sell merchandise
London on 15th to
month period visiting events like the and sample products at events and
17th June, where
Prepaid 09 Conference &
London and Reading Marathons and what is this saying about your brand?”
experts will reveal
Expo
Eastbourne Tennis Championships. “Our units look like High Street
innovative ways to
15th – 17th June 2009
Rapid Retail, which has also supplied stores and can be transported
expand revenue
The Brewery, London
streams, while
www.prepaid-conference.com units to Manchester United, Aston Villa anywhere quickly and easily.”
achieving cost
savings.
APRIL/MAY 2009 RETAIL TECHNOLOGY
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