Retail Meter: Society, Consumers, Brands and Business

IPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top 1 Million in a Day

2011-10-10T23:05:00.000+01:00

Apple Inc. received more than one million pre-orders for the iPhone 4S in a single day, 67 percent more than for the previous version of the device.

Business Week

Herman Van Rompuy acredita

2011-07-10T08:53:00.001+01:00

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Coca-Cola rolls out more electric trucks for fuel efficiency

2011-07-08T22:38:00.003+01:00

Coca-Cola Co. is rolling out a half-dozen new electric trucks in Los Angeles, San Francisco, D.C. and New York as part of its plans to use fuel more efficiently.

Coca-Cola Refreshments, a division focused on bottling, sales and distribution, says it has more heavy-duty hybrid trucks on the road in North America than any other fleet. The company also operates more than 650 hybrid medium-duty trucks as part of its alternative fuel fleet. It is training drivers in "eco-driving techniques" such as braking and throttling to reduce fuel consumption.

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Read: ajc.com

P&G pet food renews European transport deal

2011-07-08T21:45:00.000+01:00

"More and more forward-thinking businesses with their fingers on the ‘green’ logistics pulse are switching from road transport to pioneering intermodal solutions that move their goods in a reliable, cost efficient and sustainable manner."

"The catalysts for change continue to be rising fuel costs, toll charges, drivers’ wages, increasing congestion, inadequate infrastructure and the drive for lower CO2 emissions."

Read: Logistics Manager

101 Awesome Marketing Quotes

2011-06-24T22:30:00.000+01:00

101 Awesome Marketing Quotes

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Unilever Plans Fivefold Boost to China Business

2011-06-15T21:49:00.000+01:00

Unilever, the world’s second-biggest consumer-goods company, plans to increase its business in China to as much as five times the current level, Bloomberg reports.

Spectacular Coca-Cola 3D 125th Anniversary Illumination

2011-05-13T23:56:00.000+01:00

18.65 Million iPhones Sold: Apple Reports Record Earnings

2011-04-20T22:56:00.001+01:00

Apple's profit almost doubled in the fiscal second quarter, with a net profit of $5.99 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share ($3.07 billion, or $3.33, a year earlier). Sales jumped 83 percent to $24.7 billion in the quarter.

Impressive figures for this second fiscal quarter (Jan-Mar2011), compared over the year-ago quarter:

18.65 million iPhones, +113%
4.69 million iPads
3.76 million Macs, +28%
9.02 million iPods, - 17%

More: Yahoo Finance

U.S. Mobile Market Share: Android Platform Now Accounts for 1 in 3 Smartphone Users

2011-04-02T11:12:00.001+01:00

comScore, reports key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending February 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.8 percent market share. Google Android led among smartphone platforms with 33.0 percent market share.

69.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2011, up 13 percent from the preceding three-month period. Google Android grew 7.0 percentage points since November, strengthening its #1 position with 33.0 percent market share. RIM ranked second with 28.9 percent market share, followed by Apple with 25.2 percent. Microsoft (7.7 percent) and Palm (2.8 percent) rounded out the top five.

More data: comScore, Inc

Smartphone market will grow 49% in 2011. Android will be the leader

2011-03-30T18:52:00.000+01:00

According to the International Data Corporation,

"the worldwide smartphone market is expected to grow 49.2% in 2011 as more consumers and enterprise users turn in their feature phones for smartphones with more advanced features. Smartphone vendors will ship more than 450 million smartphones in 2011 compared to the 303.4 million units shipped in 2010. Moreover, the smartphone market will grow more than four times faster than the overall mobile phone market."

The same report predicts that

"Android is poised to take over as the leading smartphone operating system in 2011 after racing into the number 2 position in 2010. By 2015 Android will reach 45.4% and IDC expects Windows Phone to be number 2 operating system worldwide, with about 21 % market share. Nokia's recent announcement to shift from Symbian to Windows Phone will have significant implications for the smartphone market going forward."

Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web, and Amazon Cloud Player for Android

2011-03-29T06:25:00.004+01:00

That's it! Amazon Cloud Player is now live, a streaming and storage service for music, videos, photos, and documents. Keep whatever you need online and access your files from anywhere.

So... where's Apple?? We may say that Google is here, as the service comes with an Android player, but there's no iOS player, sorry!

The Amazon Cloud drive offers 5 GB of free online storage that you can access from any computer. If you need more storage space, paid plans are available for storage up to 1,000 GB.

Outside US, please note that you can only have this 5GB plan. No upgrade plans for now.

When you purchase digital downloads from the Amazon MP3 Store, you can choose to automatically save your purchases to your Cloud Drive. All your purchases will be backed up and available to download anywhere, anytime.

População hispânica nos EUA chega aos 50 milhões

2011-03-24T14:30:00.001Z

O aumento do número de hispânicos nos EUA é surpreendente, de acordo com os resultados preliminares dos censos a comunidade hispânica aumentou mais de metade na última década, tendo atingido a marca dos 50 milhões.

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Consumers are in charge. You can’t do okay work. Do great work.

2011-03-08T17:10:00.000Z

Consumers are in charge. You can’t do okay work. Do great work.

As information becomes overwhelming, brands will become more important. Brands are the shortcut that consumers use to filter information

There’s a lost generation of people in their 40s. People in their 20s grew up digital. People in their 50s are forced into digital by their kids. If you’re in the lost generation, you need to deliberately engage with technology to overcome this handicap.

[Keith Weed, Unilever’s CMO] : CPG Leader Transforms Digitally « Agency Collaboration

Nestlé's Profit Triples

2011-02-17T13:23:00.001Z

Nestlé SA said Thursday that 2010 net profit tripled from the year before, helped by the sale of its eyecare business and increased sales in emerging markets and at its nutrition division.

WSJ.com

PPR Chief to Run Gucci Brand Himself

2011-02-17T13:17:00.000Z

The French luxury magnate François-Henri Pinault said Thursday that he would personally take charge of Gucci Group as he reorganizes its parent company to focus on the most profitable businesses.

Read at: NYTimes.com

Spain's youth unemployment tops Egypt's

2011-02-16T22:18:00.000Z

Bloomberg reports about youth unemployment in Spain, where the jobless rate among the young exceeds that of Egypt and Tunisia.

Microsoft Is Paying Nokia "Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars" To Go With Windows

2011-02-11T22:40:00.001Z

How much is Microsoft paying [Nokia], exactly? Is it just in-kind or is there cash as well?

Good questions!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-is-paying-nokia-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-to-go-with-windows-2011-2#ixzz1Dh0N5G4K

Apple's New iPad in Production - WSJ.com

2011-02-08T22:55:00.000Z

Apple has started production of a new version of its iPad tablet computer, WSJ reports:

The new device will be thinner, lighter and will come with a faster processor, more memory and a more powerful graphics processor, said the people familiar with the matter. It will have a front-facing camera for the first time for features like video-conferencing, but the resolution of the new iPad's display will be similar to the first iPad, they said.

Smartphones Outsell PCs

2011-02-08T21:43:00.001Z

According to IDC, smartphone manufacturers shipped 100.9 million devices in the fourth quarter of 2010, while PC manufacturers shipped 92.1 million units worldwide. Or, more simply put, smartphones just outsold PCs for the first time ever.

More @RWW: Smartphones Outsell PCs

Cap Gemini, Intel to Develop Household Energy-Management Tablet

2011-02-01T20:59:00.000Z

Cap Gemini, Europe’s largest computer-services company, and Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, will cooperate on a tablet-style computer that will let customers adjust appliances’ power use.

Cap Gemini, Intel to Develop Household Energy-Management Tablet - Bloomberg

Android Tablets Gain on Apple IPad in Fourth Quarter

2011-01-31T22:02:00.000Z

Google Inc.’s Android software boosted its share of tablet computers almost 10-fold in the fourth quarter, narrowing the lead of Apple Inc.’s iPad, market researcher Strategy Analytics said.

Android devices captured 22 percent of global tablet shipments in the three months to Dec. 31, up from 2.3 percent in the preceding quarter, the Boston-based researcher said in a statement today. The iPad accounted for 75 percent of shipments in the period, down from about 95 percent, it said.

Via:

Bloomberg - Android Tablets Gain on Apple IPad in Fourth Quarter

Is Nokia About To Embrace Android?

2011-01-28T21:05:00.002Z

Nokia's earnings report for the December quarter contained more bad news -- profits down 21% from last year, market share down to 31% from 35% last year -- but new CEO Stephen Elop says the company is finally taking serious action.

"Nokia must compete on an ecosystem-to-ecosystem basis. In addition to great devices, we must build, catalyze, and/or join a competitive ecosystem."

So,BI asks... Is Nokia About To Embrace Android?

Link me to Davos 2011

2011-01-25T23:12:00.000Z

Selected articles to link you to the World Economic Forum, Davos 2011

Ivory Coast's president-elect Alassane Ouattara imposes cocoa export ban - Telegraph

2011-01-24T00:16:00.000Z

The price of cocoa is expected to spike on Monday after the Ivory Coast's president-elect, Alassane Ouattara, imposed a one-month ban on cocoa exports in an effort to oust his rival.
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Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of cocoa beans and accounts for approximately one third of global production.

The price of cocoa had already hit a five-month high last week – at $2, 150 (£1,340) per tonne in London – over concerns about political unrest following the disputed election.

Telegraph, pr

Social shopping Comparison Analysis Kaboodle vs ThisNext

2011-01-21T21:06:00.001Z

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