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Rakuten chases overseas sales
Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-tail site, is chasing overseas sales as revenue from international shoppers grows at 19.7 per cent a month.Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani expects international sales to hit $1m (£621,300) a day by the end of the year. The e-tailer was founded in 1997 and has 47 million members ...
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NewsChimpogo.com combines social media and e-commerce
Showing perfectly how social media and e-commerce can be merged, Chimpogo allows visitors to its site to create a design or illustration for a t-shirt. Shoppers submit their design alongside some information on the story behind it, and other visitors to the site can then blog about it and rate ...
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OpinionRetail surgery: Working with voucher code sites
How can we work with voucher code sites so they only publicise codes that we want to make openly available?
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OpinionE-tail’s debt to the old retail greats
The principles of pioneers such as Gordon Selfridge are as relevant as ever in modern retailing
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AnalysisThe next generation of e-tail
No retailer can afford to be without a website these days, but what are the must-haves and what are the costly fripperies that won’t improve your bottom line? Joanna Perry explains today’s essentials
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NewsExplosion of fake designer shoes websites
The number of websites selling fake designer shoes has exploded, resulting in shoppers being increasingly conned by the counterfeit sites.
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NewsRetail sales grow 1.4 per cent in June
Retail sales in June grew 1.4 per cent on a like-for-like basis helped by the heatwave across the country and clearance Sales.
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NewsNext refines online search to lift Sale site
Next is working with its website search provider on the latest version of its Sale website, which will go live on July 18.
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NewsHot weather sends retail sales down
Last week’s hot weather hit retail footfall and sent general merchandisers’ sales down for a second week running.
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NewsN Brown thrives as online sales jump 25%
Home shopping specialist N Brown has enjoyed a strong start to its financial year with continued growth across its brands.
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Amazon could face £73.8m tax bill in Japan
E-tail giant Amazon could face a $119m (£73.8m) tax bill in Japan for unreported income over a three-year period.Local reports said that Japan’s tax bureau judged that because part of Amazon’s operations are Japan-based, an income report of tens of billions of yen should have been submitted and therefore would ...
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NewsMysears.com: Sears adopts OpenID platform
US retail giant Sears has adopted the OpenID platform to more closely connect the social networking sites it runs for its Sears and Kmart chains with sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
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NewsSocial site teams with aggregators to push products
Website iVillage.co.uk, an information network that targets women, has partnered with shopping aggregator sites Mydeco.com and ShopStyle.co.uk to integrate products within its content pages.
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OpinionBecome part of the story
Retailers should make the most of the media circus to raise their profiles, says Jacqueline Gold
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NewsCelebrities signed to mark rebrand of Littlewoods Direct as Very.
A raft of fashion faces and celebrities have been signed to celebrate the rebranding of Littlewoods Direct as Very.
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OpinionWindow shopping has moved online
A look at some recent results shows interesting diversity in the world of online retailing.
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NewsN Brown sales up 5.1 per cent
N Brown has made a strong start to its financial year with continued growth across its home shopping brands and a 5.1 per cent rise in turnover in the 18 weeks to July 4.