Grocery comparison website, mySupermarket, is supporting the Live Below The Line campaign (7-11 May 2012), which aims to increase awareness of poverty by challenging people to spend five days feeding themselves for £1.00 a day – the UK equivalent of the
Spanx, the shapewear brand promoted by celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Oprah Winfrey, has launched a UK website www.spanx.co.uk Spanx reports it has sold more than 5.4m Spanx Power Panties worldwide. Meanwhile, its creator and shapewear guru Sara
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) company Hit Search, reports it is focusing its services to online fashion retailers enabling them to take advantage of current online trends. The emergence of platforms such as Google+ and Video Search, Facebook local search listings,
Morrisons is feeling the squeeze in the mid-market with a 1% fall in like-for-like sales in the first quarter, according to retail consultancy, Retail Vision. While the supermarket claimed it had made a “satisfactory start to its new financial year”
Zetes has launched a mobile app – Cleantrak – designed to control retail cleaning and facilities management in response to the increasing cost of compensation claims made by consumers after accidentally tripping in retail stores. According to Zetes, the system provides
Spar wholesaler and retailer, AF Blakemore, has relaunched its shopfitting business, Complete Shopfitting, as Blakemore Design & Shopfitting. According to the company, the rebranding heralds a new era of design innovation, workmanship and great customer service. Operating under a new
Point-of-sale supplier, UK point of Sale, is encouraging retailers to merchandise gifts and cards in creative ways in order to capture spend on Father’s Day (17 June 2012), estimated to be worth £771.4m in 2010. The company recommends: The range
Deodorant and antiperspirant sales in the US have increased by 16% between 2006 and 2011 and population growth will continue to drive this market through 2016 and beyond, according to Mintel’s latest report. “Antiperspirant/deodorant use among teens is at 92%, placing
The Co-operative Food is marking this year’s Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations with the launch of two limited-edition British beers: Jubilation and Salutation. Launching in Co-operative stores nationwide on 2 May 2012, the new Truly Irresistible premium own-brand ales are brewed
Leading ingredients and chilled foods supplier, Kerry Group, has invested in a new SAP solution designed to enhance its procurement processes. According to SAP, Kerry Group achieved close to instant value with its SAP Sourcing OnDemand solution. “What we needed
Online retailer, The Duvet and Pillow Warehouse, has reported a 48% increase in sales and 61% increase in traffic in April 2012, compared to the same period last year. The online sales surge comes as Met Office figures confirm last
Publicly-listed packaging company, API Group, claims the introduction of plain tobacco packaging would do significant damage to its business, according to its CEO. Interviewed by the Hands Off Our Packs campaign, which opposes the introduction of plain packaging, API Group
November 2012 sees the launch of an inaugural promotional week designed to celebrate and promote gift cards and vouchers as the ideal gift to both give and to receive. Giftcard & Voucher Week is supported by the trade association for
Most people in Britain with a connected TV lead a disconnected TV existence, according to a new study of the consumer take up and usage of digital devices and media. Research by Kantar Media shows, while connected TV is well
Law firm Olswang reports its property team has been busy buying and selling shopping centres in cities across the north of England and has invested nearly half a billion pounds on behalf of its clients in the last 12 months.
Specialist bean company Easy Bean has won Fairtrade status for a third product – its Spanish Puchero pot. The award-winning Spanish Puchero – Fairtrade white beans with Riojan chorizo, red pepper and pimentón – is said to be the perfect standalone choice
Visa Europe is launching a digital wallet service, V.me by Visa, to consumers in the UK, Spain and France in autumn 2012. The company has also announced payments processor WorldPay will be a key development partner in the delivery of
The British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) has launched its Guide to the Storage and Handling of Frozen Foods 2012 edition to continue to facilitate a common approach to the frozen food supply chain in light of recent developments in the
Call centre specialist, Datapoint, has appointed Matt Taylor as group services director with a remit to build on the company’s strong 2011 performance and broaden its market offer into professional and managed services. Jim Kent, CEO of Datapoint, said: “The unified
Aurora Fashions, the group behind women’s fashion brands Coast, Oasis and Warehouse, is spearheading the international roll-out of its multiple brand e-commerce site with launches in the US and Australia this month (May 2012). The move will be followed by four
Barclaycard has teamed up with the cloud-based e-commerce platform Powa to help its small business customers trade online in a secure and optimised way. The new venture will provide business customers with an online presence, support the need to
Torex, a leading global provider of technology to the convenience and fuel markets, is partnering with Gilbarco Vedeer-Root to offer forecourts integrated Outdoor Payment Terminal (OPT) technology, which it claims will help reduce the risk of drive-offs. Forecourts who adopt
Sunpride is launching a range of exotic fruit juice drinks to tap growing sales growing interest in exotic flavours in the UK. According to IRI EPOS data, the tropical fruit juice market is now estimated to be worth around £140m
Stuart Adams, partner and global head of enforcement at IP specialist law firm Rouse, advises retailers on the top five IP pitfalls they must avoid during London 2012 “Retailers should be only too well aware by now there are a
Wet and cold weather, combined with financial pressures on household incomes, has dampened the expectation of an increase in shopper footfall in April on March 2012, according to Ipsos Retail Performance. Its Retail Traffic Index (RTI), which monitors the volume
