We understand that UPM Raflatac will implement a 10% price increase for all UHF inlays effective March 1; Avery Dennison will follow on April 1 with a 10% increase of their own. Some HF products will also be subject to the price increase. In our view this is simply a reaction to basic market forces [...]
Rica Lewis, a European provider of Jeans, has implemented item-level tracking RFID tracking to improve inventory management and merchandising. Our basic analysis suggests a compelling revenue enhancement benefit that well exceeds the incremental costs of deployment once fully implemented. The company sells roughly 5M pair of Jeans to retailers such as Carrefour, Auchan, Kiabi and [...]
The January 2010 edition of the RFID Monthly Newsletter is now available. In this edition we discuss the status of item level at retail from the recent NRF Show as well as our recent survey on the bar code and RFID markets. We also provide some quick comments on the recent acquisition of Sirit by Federal Signal as well as [...]
CEITEC introduced its De Boi chip, intended for cattle identification. The company plans to market De Boi chips globally and expand the technology to other markets. The chip was designed to meet health regulations such as those in the EU. CEITEC plans to manufacture the chip at its fabrication facility in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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Terso introduced a new RFID cabinet for healthcare suppliers and providers. This cabinet enables real-time automated inventory control and has a larger capacity than the company’s previous units. The cabinet has 25 cubic feet of storage space and has dimensions of 36” x 26” x 80”. The cabinet was designed to track and protect high-value [...]
Airetrak announced that the company has added Wi-Fi Temperature Monitoring functionality to its ResourceView software package. The new ResourceView functionality is intended to help hospitals and clinics meet guidelines on temperature monitoring of blood and drug products as well as aid patient safety. The package monitors temperatures of refrigerators, freezers and mobile storage in real [...]
Newport Digital Technologies (NPDT) completed AT&T’s network certification for its rugged handheld N37B computing device, which will be channeled through to AT&T’s Special Vertical Markets (SVM) with Ingram Micro as the logistics and distribution partner. Recall, NPDT is working with Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to commercialize [...]
TagMaster has received an order for its Heavy-duty RFID rail system from TagItalia, based in Prato, Italy. The RFID 2.45GHz based equipment will be used to identify rail vehicles in real-time, allowing measurement of weight, dimension and wheel profile to be associated with a particular car or wagon. With the system, a tag is installed [...]
American Apparel Update – American Apparel has added two additional stores and has provided some additional statistics. Recall our June 2009 case study focused on eight pilot stores and suggested a payback of just under five months. American Apparel has confirmed inventory accuracy of 95%, up from 65%-75% and a 50%-75% decrease of out-of-stocks as [...]
Fluensee announced that Craig Kavanaugh has joined the company as Director of Sales. Kavanaugh will oversee both the company’s direct and channel sales efforts. He was previously responsible for channel and U.S. western area sales for Intelleflex RFID solutions. Kavanaugh also worked for Symbol sales, where he launched the PartnerSelect program.
Acsis announced the appointment of [...]