01/03/04
Gist wins Retail Week award
At the Retail Week Award ceremony, Monday 1st March, Gist and Marks & Spencer were announced as the winners of the Retail Technology Solutions Award for the implementation of RFID.
Gist and Marks & Spencer were up against Avon Cosmetics – ‘Field Transformation’ and B&Q & IntelliQ – ‘Retail Key Loss Prevention’. Andy Hodgkins and Ian Mumby, Head of Supply Chain & IT – Foods, M&S, collected the trophy in front of over 1,500 leading industry figures in the retail sector.
Gist and Marks & Spencer have jointly trialled RFID technology in the world’s biggest RFID implementation project in the retail sector and, as a result, are improving flexibility, efficiency and accuracy throughout the M&S foods supply chain.
Notes to editors:
Gist combines leading edge experience and expertise to transform supply chains through intelligent application of innovative leading edge technology, unique solutions tailored to customers’ strategies, managing change and embracing and enhancing the supply chain proposition. With industry specific experience, expertise and excellence, Gist’s solutions bring end-to-end visibility and implementation, from concept to delivery.
Gist, based in the United Kingdom, has its head office at Basingstoke in Hampshire. However, Gist’s 4,500 employees operate out of 28 locations, providing a full range of intellectual and asset-based business offering in the UK, continental Europe, Asia, Australasia and North America.
Gist’s customers (including Ocado, Marks & Spencer, British Airways, Carlsberg UK and Budgens) operate in a wide range of commercial and industrial sectors, including grocery, electronics, apparel and gas.
As part of the BOC Group, which serves two million customers in more than 50 countries, Gist also benefits from BOC’s global capability, synergy and scale.
To find out more about Gist, for photography or to arrange an interview with the Gist team please contact the Gist press office:
Tel: 01256 891111
Fax: 01256 891122
Email: Michele.mervin@gistworld.com
