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RFID in Fashion

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Dates: August 13 - 14, 2008
Venue: The Fashion Institute of Technology
Location: New York, New York
URL: http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/fashion/
Contact: RFID Journal Events Contact, click here

Description: Learn how you can use RFID technologies to achieve real business benefits today

Savvy retailers in the United States, Europe & Asia are using radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies every day to cut costs and boost sales. Advances in RFID are reducing deployment costs and making it easier to track in-store inventory.


At this year’s event you’ll find out how leading retailers are using RFID to:

  • Track high-value products
  • Improve on-shelf availability
  • Track work-in process and improve shipping accuracy
  • Deter theft, diversion and counterfeiting

Plus, you’ll learn:

  • How retailers are benefiting from tagging individual items today
  • Best practices for using RFID to improve delivery speed
  • How RFID can help cut labor costs
  • And much more!

The first RFID event to bring you Walmart’s Linda Dillman and Best Buy’s Robert Willett will present a line up of the industry’s most innovative thought leaders to discuss the issues facing today’s RFID industry and offer insight into its future. [end] 

SML Group Ltd announced the launch of its new “ViziT” RFID item visibility solutions for the retail apparel and item tracking applications.

The ViziT solutions include a range of RFID/EAS enabled paper and woven labels, as well as tickets and sticker that can be attached to garments and stacked items. Using the SML ViziT IT cloud based data management software also provides for semi automated inventory control, as well as improved loss prevention by triggering alarms and item identification at the store exit.

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Murata and Beta LAYOUT announced a joint venture to launch an RFID starter kit aimed at printed circuit board (PCB) engineers and developers aspiring to incorporate RFID into their electronics design.

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Leo InnoTech (LIT) and UPM RFID have carried out a large-scale item-level RFID implementation for a Chinese apparel company focusing primarily on warehouse logistics optimization.

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International fashion brand DAZZLE has implemented an item-level RFID project in their China retail chain using UPM RFID inlays. The fashion brand collection will carry hang tags equipped with UPM ShortDipole and UPM Belt RFID inlays to improve supply chain and sales channel management.

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Mobile payment solution provider I Love Velvet announced that it has reached the second level of EMV certification (EMV2) which authorizes PIN and integrated chip payments from debit, credit and smart cards around the world.

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Proclaiming its entrance into the RFID space, Honeywell introduced part of a new product portfolio designed to bring efficiency to the retail industry, the Optimus 5900 RFID mobile computer.

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