A prestigious line-up of packaging and brand professionals has been unveiled by Easyfairs, show organisers of Packaging Innovations, Empack and Label&Print, for its Learnshops programme. Keynote speakers include Weetabix, Innocent Drinks, Kraft Heinz, Britvic, Taylors of Harrogate, John Lewis, Wilkos,
Harvey Nichols and Kwik Fit produced the most engaging Christmas ads by high street retailers, according to Realeyes’ annual Christmas study, which measures how people feel while they watch ads by tracking their facial expressions. John Lewis – last year’s winner
John Lewis is bringing the next innovation in connected home technology to the high street, as it today announces that Peeple, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) hardware and software startup, is the winner of this year’s JLAB, the retailer’s technology business accelerator. Peeple
John Lewis, the UK’s largest department store retailer, has improved the online experience for its johnlewis.com customers since expanding its deployment of Oracle Commerce in March 2015. Enhanced search capabilities are producing more relevant results, in turn reducing drop-out rates and increasing conversion. John
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Visitors to this year’s Chelsea Flower were guaranteed to come out smelling of roses and for more than one reason. The quintessentially British soap and fragrance brand, Heyland & Whittle, donated the hand washes and lotions used in all of
John Lewis and Vodafone UK have announced a partnership to sell mobile contracts through selected John Lewis shops. In addition, John Lewis is boosting its technology offering with a new mobile strategy, offering over 25 SIM free mobile handsets which
AO.com has won Verdict’s prestigious Best Retailer Award for 2015, showing that selling online only is no longer a barrier to delivering great customer satisfaction. The electricals pureplay retailer won the accolade at Verdict’s Customer Satisfaction Awards, which were held
In-store services across every John Lewis store can now be booked online for the first time using BookingBug’s scheduling platform. These 12 services include everything from personal shoppers to home design consultancies. Since being deployed online bookings are reported to
Amazon, Marks & Spencer and John Lewis are the UK’s most meaningful brands, according to a new study which ranks brands by their impact on consumer wellbeing and their personal finances. Online retail giant Amazon secured the top slot in the UK retail
John Lewis today announces the 2015 launch of JLAB, its start-up accelerator run in association with technology entrepreneur Stuart Marks’ investment fund L Marks. The JLAB accelerator is designed to bring the world’s foremost innovators together with one of the UK’s
UK department store John Lewis has selected Stibo Systems’ award-winning product information management (PIM) solution as a key part of its omni-channel retail strategy. By delivering highly accurate and specific product information, consistently across all of the retailer’s channels, Stibo Systems’ STEP
UK retailers must focus on seven key pillars for success in 2015 – as outlined in a new report, ‘Winning the Retail Battle in 2015’, released this week by retail insight specialist Kantar Retail and global law firm Squire Patton Boggs.
The UK’s most enjoyed and best-loved Christmas TV advertising of 2014 is John Lewis’s Monty the Penguin, according to research carried out by Millward Brown. Lidl’s Surprises ad proved to be the most persuasive, with respondents saying it made them more likely to
John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, LK Bennett, Coast, French Connection, Topshop, Boots and Burton are some of the latest brands to go live on intu.co.uk as part of its new online affiliate programme. The website is the UK’s first virtual shopping centre
As the big stores and supermarkets saturate TV schedules and the internet with their blockbuster Christmas advertisements, an Oxford academic argues many of them miss the point – and might even be counter-productive – by failing to understand their customers’
Steve Rothwell, founder of Eagle Eye Solutions, believes John Lewis may have missed a trick in its 2014 Christmas advertising campaign John Lewis has once again set the benchmark with its annual Christmas advert, generating a press and social media frenzy of activity
In a year of activities to commemorate 150 years in business, John Lewis has another reason to celebrate: the UK’s largest department store retailer has scooped two awards with its logistics automation supplier, KNAPP, at the European Supply Chain Excellence
New research from City Numbers has revealed consumers rate Marks & Spencer as the best retailer for Christmas marketing campaigns, beating John Lewis into second place. The survey, which looked into consumer attitudes to Christmas marketing, put Aldi, in third place, followed
Microsoft and John Lewis have announced the launch of ‘Monty’s Magical Toy Machine’, a new approach to extending the reach of online creative campaigns with immersive, technology enabled, in-store experiences that brings children’s toys ‘to life’ using a Kinect 2-enabled
Retailers are king, in the eyes of British consumers. In research released today, the top 10 most authentic brands, named unprompted by consumers, are dominated by well-known high-street names, such as M&S, Tesco, John Lewis, Asda and Waitrose. The research
One4all, the multi-retailer gift card company, has announced that leading department store John Lewis has become the latest of its portfolio of partners, giving One4all customers even more options when spending their gift card. The One4all Gift Card is a
John Roberts, CEO & founder, ao.com; Simon Belsham, managing director, Grocery Home Shopping, Tesco.com; Catriona Marshall, CEO; Hobbycraft and Paul Coby, IT Director, John Lewis are lined up as keynote speakers at RBTE 2015. Key issues and challenges will be
The second annual John Lewis Retail Report launches today, exploring a year’s worth of shopping data to reveal why and what consumers bought, and how they bought it in the last 12 months. Never before have shoppers been so comfortable with browsing and buying on
John Lewis will extend its ecommerce lead in 2014 as the UK online department store market frontrunner, according to Verdict’s Department Store Retailing in the UK report. The retailer’s multi-channel proposition has propelled growth, and with Verdict forecasting the online
CollectPlus, the UK’s leading store-based parcel service, has completed the national roll-out of its click & collect service for John Lewis following a successful trial that began in September 2013. This means that every John Lewis customer in the UK who makes
