All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 537
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Next ups fashion profile with online TV platform
Next has launched Next TV online to promote its fashion credentials to its web customers.
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Adili's festive sales soar
Ethical online retailer Adili recorded a 102 per cent rise in total sales over the key festive season.
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Shop Direct call centre closure threatens 1,150 jobs
Shop Direct Group could slash up to 1,150 jobs as it announced the closure of its Merseyside call centre.
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Figleaves rethinks website infrastructure for relaunch
Figleaves has set up a second data centre and created a virtualised server and storage infrastructure to support the launch of its new web platform.
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Sainsbury's trials in-store mobile phone charging service
Sainsbury’s is to trial a mobile phone charging service in its stores.
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Retail Trust raises over £1m
Retailers came out in force last night to lend their support to retail charity The Retail Trust and raise nearly 1.1m at its glitzy London ball.
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Ocado secures £10m Sharia'a financing
Online grocer Ocado has secured a 10m financing facility, raised using Sharia’a financing.
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ProCook to close all high street stores
Kitchenware retailer ProCook is to close all its high street stores as it focuses on internet sales and factory outlet stores after being bought out of administration last year.
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QVC's Steve Hofmann: With the programme
QVC has an unusually loyal shopper base. Boss Steve Hofmann tells Lisa Berwin why that will make it a force to be reckoned with in 2009 and why home shopping is no poor relation to the high street.
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Abel & Cole targets the big four
Organic online grocer Abel & Cole is to ramp up its marketing this year to push its price credentials in the face of fierce competition from the big four supermarkets.
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OpinionObama’s an example to us all
he presidential campaign is an inspirational model for any business that wants to touch people
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Sir Tom Hunter slams Flying Brands management
Sir Tom Hunter has lambasted the management of Flying Brands and said he will take a more active role in the future of the home shopping group following yesterday’s profits warning.
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Flying Brands issues profit warning
Home shopping group Flying Brands has issued a profit warning as the Jersey-based retailer continues to struggle with rising costs and shrinking margins.
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Empire Direct goes in to administration
Empire Direct, the UK’s largest independent electricals retailer, has gone in to administration.
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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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Opinion
NRF: Recession creates new rules of retailing
National Retail Federation president and chief executive Tracy Mullin opened the organisation's 98th convention in New York on Sunday with a blunt message to businesses trying to ride out the recession: they need to get real to the new rules of retailing.