Online retailers, find out who’s doing what in the online retail space, who is innovating online, who the winners & losers are & what they are doing
ChannelAdvisor, a leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions that enable retailers and manufacturers to increase global sales, has announced a partnership with the UK’s third largest online marketplace, Rakuten Play.com. Rakuten Play.com’s busy marketplace, which has categories including music, DVDs, clothing,
Condé Nast International has led a $20m investment in farfetch, a leading e-commerce marketplace for independent fashion boutiques. The deal was announced today by Condé Nast chairman and chief executive, Jonathan Newhouse. Existing investors, Advent Venture Partners, Index Ventures and e.ventures,
River Island and Rocks TV have signed up to a new international home delivery service from DPD. DPD Direct – a dedicated B2C home delivery service – will deliver these and other retailers’ parcels to the 12 largest international markets
Online marketing services supplier, Rakuten LinkShare, has reported a strong fourth quarter performance, which saw brands on its network enjoy a 35% increase in sales compared to the same period a year ago. According to the company, brands in its
Shopping4Fans, a membership-based internet shopping club focusing on licensed merchandise, is launching its first online shopping event, featuring product from London 2012. Shopping4Fans.com is described as a one-stop shop, providing members with limited-in-time shopping events to purchase a variety of official
Tesco has recorded a 1.8% increase in same store sales for the six weeks to 5 January 2013 – its strongest growth rate for three years. According to the retailer, growth was driven by a much stronger food performance than
Mobile Fun, a leading UK online retailer of mobile accessories, has confirmed it will expand into 20 new countries by the end of the current financial year. Mobile Fun said it is on track with eight of the 20 sites
German mail-order retailer OTTO and predictive analytics business, Blue Yonder, have teamed up to research the key reasons for product returns in a bid to reduce their frequency. According to Blue Yonder, OTTO examined its big data in the course
ShopStyle.co.uk, the UK online fashion shopping site, has launched a widget which allows users to tag an item they want and receive a notification when the item goes down in price. The widget is one of the new features introduced
Leading UK footwear brand, Clarks, is launching a click and collect service through the CollectPlus network of stores. CollectPlus will also be providing a returns service for those customers shopping with Clarks. With 5,000 CollectPlus stores and petrol stations in
Tween fashion website, FashionPlaytes, has launched a festive holiday clothing line including skirts, tops, dresses and outerwear. According to the company, the holiday line will empower fashion-forward tweens to create their own signature look for the holidays. The upcoming season presents
Ecwid, the maker of a popular Facebook shopping cart app, has reported strong sales growth at its Facebook storefronts in the year to date. In the third quarter of 2012, Ecwid said total sales from all of the Facebook stores
High street retailer, Wilkinson, has appointed leading retail logistics provider, Clipper, to provide multi-channel fulfillment, including home delivery and click and collect from store. The logistics solution, which was implemented in early autumn, handled almost a quarter of a million
Micros, the leading provider of technology for the retail and hospitality industries, has launched a multi-channel, pay-as-you-go, Software as a Service (SaaS) integrated Cloud POS and e-commerce platform where the application and entered data are held in a secure PCI compliant central environment,
Wayfair.co.uk, a leading UK online homewares retailer, has announced its sales predictions for Cyber Monday, the web’s biggest shopping day which falls globally on 26 November 2012. Peak shopping time on the site is expected to be between 4-5pm, with
PrePay Solutions, Europe’s leading prepaid services company, has teamed up with Ticketmaster UK to launch a Facebook delivery mechanism, allowing consumers to purchase and deliver e-gifts via the social networking site in the UK and Ireland. PrePay Solutions has worked
Leading online home furnishings retailer, Wayfair.co.uk, is launching a pillow in the UK, which is designed to mirror the average man’s torso and arm, following its success in the US. The ‘Boyfriend Pillow’ is claimed to provide firm sleeping support
Vandanel, the professional football kit supplier, is launching a new brand in association with Sports Direct. The new Sondico Professional line will provide sports apparel to all levels of the game, from grassroots to pro clubs, and aims to become
A new shopping website designed to enable local, independent retailers to set up shop online is being launched today in the South West of England. MyHigh.St is the brainchild of former Marks & Spencer executive, Loaye Agabani, and mobile internet
Online fashion shopping site, ShopStyle, is relaunching its website today with a fresh look aimed at delivering new merchant and brand opportunities for the 2m users who regularly visit it for a fashion fix. Claimed to be the no.1 fashion
Online fashion retailer, MandMDirect, claims it is set to give a significant boost to Teenage Cancer Trust by donating 10p from each sale of Official Olympic merchandise to the charity. The discounted fashion and sports brands retailer is the official
A new website, FashionPlaytes (www.fashionplaytes.com), is targeting the ‘tween’ market and creating a digital community of girls who can shape and influence its product designs. Its first product launch – The Hair Fling – has been inspired by comments and
Online home furnishings retailer, Wayfair.co.uk, has reported record growth one year after the company consolidated multiple homeware sites and launched under the unified Wayfair brand. Wayfair said it has experienced significant growth over the past year, in the UK and
Shopping site, mySupermarket, has launched an app, which it claims offers all the benefits of its site and will pop up when a shopper is on another retailer’s website to let them know when they could swap-and-save to a cheaper like-for-like
Mark Elkins, commercial director digital at Coca-Cola, explored how the business is accelerating growth online and in-store at the IGD’s Trading in a Digital World event. Elkins said Coca-Cola’s starting point online was defining digital and it spans two areas
