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Retailers Reveal How RFID Can Boost Sales and Improve Customer Experience British designer Nick Tentis and Neco Can, co-owner of the Industry Standard boutique, will present new case studies at the RFID Journal—AAFA Apparel & Footwear Summit.

Italian Textile Firms Rolls Over to RFID Griva applies an EPC RFID tag to each roll of fabric it processes, resulting in lower labor costs, increased production and a rapid ROI.

Emprevi Launches Service for Securing, Tracking Cargo Using Savi active RFID seals and interrogators, the Colombian logistics provider expects to reduce security costs by $350 per container and cut shipment time by two days.

SPAR Uses RFID to Track Promotional Displays The supplier of merchandising services to product manufacturers and retailers is involved in several pilots employing active tags to provide real-time status reports and alerts.

RFID Vendors Collaborate on Open-Source LLRP Project By offering an open-source low-level reader protocol toolkit to RFID interrogator manufacturers and software developers, the group expects to help lower the cost of RFID implementations.

BRIDGE Expects to Launch Five European RFID Pilots This Fall The biggest of the EU-funded projects involve seven pharmaceutical and health-care organizations, using RFID and 2-D bar codes to trace drugs from the point of manufacture to delivery at a pharmacy.

Euro Pool System Tags Reusable Crates Euro Pool System is running an RFID pilot involving EPC Class 1 Gen 2 RFID tags molded into the bottoms of foldable plastic crates, enabling it to track the containers more quickly and efficiently.

Leading Shirt Manufacturer to Present New Case Study at RFID Apparel and Footwear Conference At the RFID Journal—AAFA Apparel and Footwear Summit, Esquel CIO Bridget Chan will explain how her company benefits from using RFID to manage cotton inventory and track work-in-process.

Using RFID to Manage Work-in-Process Is Companies' Top Objective In a survey by the Aberdeen Group, 57 percent of respondents said the need to manage WIP is the top driver for RFID adoption, while 41 percent cited managing raw materials.

Thai Shrimp Exporters Use RFID for Automation, Traceability The technology helps the companies reduce labor costs and improve the ability to trace the foods' origin and processing in the event of a product recall.