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Asos sales soar
Fashion e-tailer Asos has enjoyed another bumper Christmas with sales in the nine weeks to January 16 up 118 per cent year on year.
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Aldi breaks into flower delivery market
Discount supermarket chain Aldi has this week launched a flower delivery website as it seeks to widen its offer in 2009.
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Online growth slows in December as sales hit £4.67bn
Shoppers spent 4.67bn online in December, but monthly growth online slowed for the first time in six years as consumers spent 1.5 per cent less than in November.
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Otto UK reviews 3,800 jobs
The jobs of up to 3,800 staff at Otto UK are under review as the home shopping group revealed plans for a huge overhaul of the business.
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QS like-for-likes climb
Value fashion retailer QS has revealed that like-for-like sales climbed 5.4 per cent in the quarter to the end of 2008.
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M and M Direct festive sales surge 31%
M and M Direct has become the latest online retailer to report a strong Christmas, with sales up 31 per cent in the 10 weeks to January 4.
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Shop Direct Group online sales soar
Shop Direct Group sales climbed 9 per cent in the six weeks to January 2 as more shoppers took advantage of later online delivery deadlines in the run-up to Christmas.
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Ocado plots overseas move after sales high
Ocado is eyeing franchise and joint venture possibilities in an attempt to take the online grocery business international in 2009.
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My-wardrobe Christmas sales rocket
E-tailer My-wardrobe.com has reported a sparkling Christmas with sales up 210 per cent like for like in December.
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Apple ups music download stakes with the removal of DRM
Apple has brokered a deal with the major record labels to offer their music without digital rights management protection on a new version of iTunes called iTunes Plus.
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CD and DVD sales continue to beat downloads
DVD and CD sales continue to outperform the growing download market, according to research released today.
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Ocado celebrates record Christmas
Online retailer Ocado has reported its best Christmas to date with year-on-year sales growth up 25 per cent in the four weeks to January 3.
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EBTM issues profit warning and considers disposal of group
EBTM, the music-inspired online fashion retailer, has issued a profit warning for the year to April 2009, and is considering a disposal of all or part of the group as it suffers in the downturn.
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£100 million Christmas day spend expected online
Shoppers are expected to spend over 100 million on Christmas day this year with 5 million people set to go online.
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Casino's Cdiscount launches in the UK
French grocery giant Casino has launched its discount e-tail site Cdiscount in the UK, as exclusively predicted by Retail Week earlier this year.
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John Lewis to push web merchandising
John Lewis’s online arm has selected a web merchandising system from Omniture to help it ramp up its sales.
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Mothercare’s online question system a hit
Mothercare has developed a knowledge base of around 500 questions since its online self-service system Ask Carrie went live a couple of months ago.
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Online’s Mega Monday sales spike still to come
The key Christmas sales day for online retailers, Mega Monday, is expected to happen a week later this year.
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NewsLa Senza adds interactive guide for men to its site
La Senza has launched an interactive buying guide for men on its web site to help them purchase gifts.
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'Mega Monday' delivers biggest sales online
“Mega Monday” delivered a strong sales lift for retailers who enjoyed their biggest day of online sales so far this year, despite traffic failing to reach an expected peak.