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Revolution Beauty, one of the world’s fastest growing beauty brands, has partnered with leading digital agency, Astound Commerce, to launch a new e-commerce solution to support its rapidly scaling business and direct-to-consumer (DTC) offering.
The UK retail sector’s charity, retailTRUST, is calling on the industry to activate four Ds – download, donate, direct and delegate – during the charity’s Financial Health and Wellness month in January.
Experts in learning and development through play, Early Learning Centre has partnered with educational experts to create a hub of content, aimed at helping families throughout the lockdown period. With schools currently closed and parents and carers home schooling
The pandemic has accelerated the dispersal of consumers seeking and accessing promotions across channels, but suspicions remain around the value and consistency of discounts offered by retailers and brands digitally versus in-store.
Co-op has served-up a new store to serve the community in Gower Road, Sketty, Swansea.
In The Style, the fast-growing e-commerce womenswear fashion brand with an innovative influencer collaboration model, has reported a 169% uplift in sales to £13.5m in the 13 weeks to 31 December 2020 compared with the same period last year.
Take-home grocery sales in Ireland rose by 17.0% in the 12 weeks to 27 December 2020, the latest figures from Kantar show. A record-breaking €1.2 billion was spent on groceries in December, making it the busiest month ever as families
BSI, in its role as the UK’s National Standards Body, has published a new standard for community face coverings to help UK manufacturers, testing houses, retailers and consumers, to ensure single-use and re-usable face coverings are safe and fit for
British e-mobility specialist Pure Electric today calls on the Government to encourage over 65s to get back in the saddle through a new, nationwide ‘Cycle in Retirement’ scheme.
Central England Co-op has released details of what shoppers looking to kick-start the new year with a health kick or a lifestyle change put in their baskets last January as people make their resolutions for the year ahead.
Namogoo, the pioneer of Customer Journey Hijacking prevention, is delighted to announce a new partnership with M&S.com – the UK’s second biggest clothing retailer.
Furniture retailer Heal’s had seen a huge transformation in its website’s traffic. In the first quarter of 2020 natural search traffic had been down on the previous year by as much as 40%. Just six months later and this position
Today, Sainsbury’s is announcing the mass roll out of its first plant-based own brand tea bag from June 2021. The innovative move comes as part of Sainsbury’s ongoing commitment to halve plastic packaging by 2025 and the company’s pledge to
Marks & Spencer chief executive Steve Rowe said trading at the retailer was “robust” over the Christmas period, given the on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns due to Covid-19.
UK adults spent close to £7million pounds on vape products between January and October of 2020. With nearly 3 million adults now vaping, Vype was curious to find out which UK cities had embraced vaping the most. Vype took a
ASOS, one of the world’s leading online fashion retailers, today announced that it will invest £90m in a brand-new state-of-the-art fulfilment centre in Lichfield, Staffordshire, with a plan to employ 2,000 people at the site over the next three years.
Mindful Chef, the UK's favourite healthy recipe box service (source: Trustpilot) is on a mission to make healthy eating easy, whatever the occasion.
Following today’s release of Sainsbury’s figures for Q3 FY2020/21; Thomas Brereton, senior retail analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, comments: “Sainsbury’s results are undoubtedly a pleasing read. Strong but expected grocery sales growth is supported by an
The UK’s leading multi-store gift card, One4all Gift Cards, has announced a new retail partnership with the onboarding of leading high street jewellery brand, Pandora.
The Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop, Costa Coffee, has today lifted the lid on its most exciting drinks menu yet, the new Limited-edition Latte+ drinks range.
Total retail revenue through Joules’ own-branded retail channels was up by 0.3% in the seven-week period to 3 January 2021, against the prior year, with the growth in Joules e-commerce sales more than offsetting the decline from stores.
With consumers at the forefront of new product offerings, in 2019 epay and Circle K commenced a small pilot of prepaid gift cards in select stores. The success of the pilot demonstrated real demand from Irish consumers for gift
Button, a leading mobile commerce technology company, today announced that Deliveroo, the leading online food delivery company in Europe and Asia, has launched with EvolutionTM, Button’s product suite that provides industry-first personalization and intelligence products. These products are designed to
Eurosonic Group, a UK-based specialist supplier in quality homeware, kitchenware and electrical supplies, has partnered with e-commerce experts, Visualsoft, for the launch of the new Hairy Bikers World eCommerce website and ongoing marketing support.
Lidl has announced the return of its £5 off £25 for new Lidl Plus members this January. From Thursday 7 January until Wednesday 20th January, new users will be able to get £5 off their shop when they spend
