New Look had a tough Christmas trading period (didn’t almost everyone?) but it doesn’t seem to be worried. The company said sales grew 5.6% in the nine months to December 26 as its standalone menswear stores proved to be a hit and its web sales surged. Comparable sales rose 4.5%, with a 4.3% rise in…
How has the combined Yoox and Net-a-Porter online fashion giant been faring since the Italian and UK businesses linked-up? Pretty well actually with global growth in the double-digit growth and its m-commerce sales growing fast – very fast. OK, for three-quarters of the period covered, Yoox and NaP continued to operate separately (their ‘merger’ was…
OK, this is big news. That’s B.I.G. Sainsbury’s is just about there with its plan to buy Home Retail Group (HRG) – or Argos as we should now call it since HRG has already reached a deal to sell the Homebase chain to Wesfarmers. The “possible” deal doesn’t quite hit the £1.4bn HRG wanted but…
As with Apple, so it is with Amazon. The problem with giant, dominant-in-their-fields companies that grow year after year, is that expectations are high, VERY high. Investors can be disappointed even after storming results. For Apple this week, it was all about the blind panic that iPhone sales might slow down. For Amazon yesterday, it…
The world of e-shopping is now global and it’s also mobile. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the British Retail Consortium and Google looking at the last quarter of 2015. In fact, UK retailers are benefitting from a surge in international shoppers browsing their sites on their smartphones in particular. BRC chief Helen…
A new global survey has found that all of us are becoming increasingly m-commerce-friendly as our phones get bigger and more powerful, and as shopping apps and responsive websites make small screen shopping a breeze. But consumers in which country are the most obsessed with buying stuff on their mobiles?
2015 was the year of the mobile wallet. But despite the fast take-up, the payment method didn’t quite take off in the way it should for 2016. However, the conditions are right for mobile wallets to really take flight this year. Mobile payments are set to expand fast over the next 12 months with Samsung…
Saturday’s always a big shopping day in the UK so what happened this year on the first day after Christmas? Well chez Halliday, we got up late and ate Turkey sandwiches. And elsewhere? Everybody went shopping. And how. Presumably buoyed by an ever-rising number of gift cards received from their nearest and dearest, footfall surged…
It’s Christmas Day and many of us are doing what we usually do on the biggest festive day in the Western calendar when most shops are shut – shopping. Yep, Britons are expected to spend over £700m online today. OK, that’s relatively small-scale compared to Black Friday’s spend (£1bn-plus) but it’s still pretty huge considering…
Too many high-end designer brands are getting it oh-so-wrong when it comes to their e-commerce sites says a new report. And you might be surprised who are the sector stars and who are failing to maximise opportunities online.
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