Online and direct consumer sales are tipped to deliver the most growth in the wine industry, according to a survey of delegates registered to attend next week’s Wine Vision conference, 18-20 November 2013. Wine Vision found 43% of delegates believe online
Adobe has released its Adobe Digital Index 2013 Online Shopping Forecast, which focuses on predictions for this year’s holiday shopping season, defined as the entire months of November and December. In Europe, the company’s data analysis predicts 12.4% of total
The Nordic e-commerce market is in a phase of robust growth. According to a new report from logistics firm PostNord, more than 14m citizens of the Nordic region bought goods online last year. Nearly one in three people in the
A quarter of British small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are expecting to boost their Christmas sales this year by taking advantage of international online demand for British goods, new research from PayPal has found. The survey of 900 SMEs found
ChannelAdvisor, a leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions that enable retailers and manufacturers to increase global sales, has announced the launch of its integration with Tesco’s marketplace, offering selected ChannelAdvisor customers the opportunity to work with one of the UK’s leading
John Lewis predicts this year will be the UK’s first ‘mobile Christmas’ with traffic from mobile phones and tablets overtaking that from desktops for the first time on Christmas Day itself. Mobile made up almost 50% of all traffic to johnlewis.com on 25 December
Online retail sales increased by 13% between August and September 2013, the highest growth for this period in 13 years, according to figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. This is the second Index-lifetime record seen this year, following the
Smartphones will influence £18bn of UK store sales this year, according to the latest research from business advisory firm, Deloitte. In contrast, consumers will make only £5bn of sales directly on mobile devices (including both smartphones and tablets); less than
Few UK shoppers buy confectionery online, according to the latest Online Shopper Intelligence report from Kantar Media Compete. It reveals only 12% of the 7m online grocery shoppers in the UK visit a confectionery related page online, and just half
ChannelAdvisor, a leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions that enable retailers and manufacturers to increase global sales, has released new technology designed to simplify cross-border trade and cross-channel e-commerce. The company’s 2013 Autumn Release is said to offer support for more
E-retail is set to grow by almost 50% over the next five years to be worth over £50bn in 2018, when one pound in every seven spent on retail will be made online, according to new research from Verdict. One
Online retail sales have continued to surge impressively, especially during the peak Christmas season, according to IBM’s new Christmas Readiness report. It found mobile devices are powering an ever-greater share of sales and playing a greater role in buying decisions,
Figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveal the e-retail market returned to double digit growth in August 2013, with online sales up 18% year-on-year; double that of the growth rate in July (9% year-on-year). This was led by a return
Three quarters (74%) of UK consumers say traditional text-based keyword queries are inefficient in helping them find the right items online, with 15% of these shoppers saying they regularly encounter trouble finding what they’re looking for using keyword searches, according
Retailers must be prepared to maximise the customer experience at all possible touch points in the multi-channel era where 72% of the UK population owns a smartphone and 50% use them to make purchases, experts warn. Maximising customer engagement across all
Ride-away, one of the UK’s top retailers for horse-riding equipment and supplies, has announced a full rebranding of its business – a task which includes the showroom in York, its bi-annual catalogue and the website. The company, which was purchased by
Majestic Wine has launched its next generation e-commerce website to enhance the customer experience and drive further growth in online sales. The new solution includes device-optimised sites, an improved stock system reflecting local availability, and personal recommendations provided by its
The percentage of online sales completed through a mobile device (smartphones and tablets) has doubled in the space of a year according to figures from IMRG and Capgemini, illustrating just how quickly the popularity of using mobile devices for online
The UK’s largest online white goods specialist, Appliances Online, has rebranded as ao.com. The online retailer, which was named Best Pure Play Etailer in the 2013 Paypal Etail Awards and delivers around 20,000 appliances every week, has revealed the new name, logo, brand identity and
A fifth (20%) of Brits now buy more items online than they do in store, while a further 18% buy the same amount on the web as they do offline, according to the latest E-Commerce Index from online marketplace, Rakuten. The
Online sales rose by 9% in July, the weakest annual growth since January 2010, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. The Index also recorded the first ever negative growth between June and July (-2%), following strong annual growth in
Stripe, a new way to accept card payments on websites and in mobile apps, launches today in the UK, its first European country. Stripe claims it gives UK businesses a simple yet powerful way to accept payments online, replacing legacy merchant processors and
Walkers and Muller have the highest number of promotions running across the five leading online supermarkets, according to analysis of the 10 most popular FMCG brands for the week commencing 13 May 2013 by pricing intelligence provider Profitero. Based on Kantar Worldpanel’s recent
A short spell of warm weather in April had a positive impact on shoppers’ purse strings, recording a 16% rise in online sales compared to the same time last year, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. The travel sector
Retailers have received a double blow to early April spending from the usual post-Easter slowdown and from the unseasonably cold weather, according to spending data from Barclaycard. Combined, it found these created a 4.8% decrease in overall spending compared to
