Technology

Russ Berrie and Company Inc. launches a new business-to-business (b2b) Web site for its gift segment.

Century 21 Department Stores selects Escalate Retail's Merchandising, Planning and Allocation platform.

Groupe Danone, a leading maker of fresh dairy products and bottled water and the second largest provider of biscuits and cereal products, deployed ILOG Plant PowerOps (PPO) at its fresh dairy plant in Irapuato, Mexico.

RedPrairie Corporation announces that its new Pallet and Load Optimization technology -- part of its integrated E2e Solutions for Consumer Goods -- can reduce freight costs and product damage while improving shipment safety and compliance with customer and legislative trailer loading requirements.

Tom's of Maine, a maker of natural personal care products, recently received the Maine Governor's Council on Physical Activity 2007 Healthy Workplace Award - Medium Business Category for its long history of empowering employees to live healthy, active lives and for an innovative new rewards-based Wellness Challenge implemented earlier this year.

Haggen deploys a business intelligence and data warehouse system from Teradata and Manthan Systems to its 32 supermarkets.

B&H implements Coremetrics for data-driven analytics.

ColepCCL, Europe's largest contract manufacturer of personal and household care products and associated packaging solutions, selects Sopheon's Accolade product life cycle management (PLM) system to support group-wide implementation of the company's innovation management process.