Simon Palmer has replaced Lyle Finlay as chief executive of
Hawkin’s Bazaar owner Tobar.
Palmer was previously the company’s chief operating
officer.
As part of its strategy to focus on its digital operations in the
UK, video-games retailer Gamestop has closed its
four remaining shops, in Northern Ireland. The BBC reports that Gamestop’s UK website
will be operated from the company’s Dublin office and the company
will maintain its bricks-and-mortar presence in Ireland.
The European Commission has drafted an update to the EU data
protection law, their first overhaul since implementation in
1995. The changes would introduce a single set of rules on data
protection, valid across the EU-a move the Commission says will
save businesses some €2.3 billion a year in administrative
costs.
Among the changes, the reforms set out that companies must notify
the national supervisory authority, (currently the Information
Commissioner’s Office in the UK), of serious data breaches as
soon as possible, and within 24 hours “if feasible”.
Organisations will only have to deal with a single national data
protection authority in the EU country where they have their main
establishment and individuals can refer to the data protection
authority in their own country even when their data is processed
by a company based outside the EU. Further, EU rules must apply
if personal data is handled abroad by companies that are
operationally active in the EU market. Individuals will also have
easier access to their own data and will have a “right to
be forgotten”, giving them powers to delete their data if
there are “no legitimate grounds for retaining
it”.
Should the new proposals come into force, companies that violate
them could be fined up to 2 per cent of their global annual
turnover.
Skincare and cosmetics brand Clarins has
completed the rollout of 18 websites including eCommerce sites
for Clarins France, US and UK; a Thierry Mugler
US online store; a series of nontransactional brand websites, for
markets including Korea and Taiwan, and the first mobile commerce
site for Clarins US. Further mobile sites are planned during
2012. All sites are on the eCommera Commerce Platform using
Demandware technology.
Furniture retailer Dwell has launched its
new-look website. The new design features a faster and guided
search for products, enhanced product information and new
features such as trend updates.
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