BOOTS & MOTHERCARE: Adding to a growing partnership with clothing
The two already have an agreement through which Boots sells toys from the Early Learning Centre which Mothercare bought in June 2007 for £85m. Now a range of children’s clothing and accessories is to be sold in Boots. CITY AM.

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SAP: Leo Apotheker – Gone after 8 months…
He had taken the helm at SAP, the world’s third-biggest software firm, only in May. Mr Apotheker resigned after SAP’s supervisory board had decided not to extend his contract. THE ECONOMIST

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GENERAL MOTORS: Opel arm on product offensive, and GM heading into India
Opel unit will invest 11bn euros ($15bn; £9.7bn) over the next five years to develop new products. Video discussion on developing into the Delhi markets by GM India chief, Karl Slym. BBC NEWS.

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IT SYSTEMS: Epicor Retail Business Intelligence 2.0.
New and enhanced features help retailers gain critical and timely business insight to gauge and improve execution and assist in enterprise decision-making, a new enhanced user interface, and an extended data model. RETAIL TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

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Trinity Mirror Group buys local paperS
TMG has agreed to buy Guardian Media Group’s local newspapers for 44.8 million pounds to extend its regional reach, the first major step in consolidating Britain’s battered local media. REUTERS UK

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Threat of the first ever IT staff strike back in talks at Fujitsu
Unite union members at Fujitsu have called off a strike as talks take place to solve the UK’s first ever national IT workers’ strike. More action threatened next week over pay, pensions and redundancies. CIO

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