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Micro Scooters UK looks to optimise online sales and experience with Maxymiser

Leading scooter manufacturer Micro Scooters UK has appointed Maxymiser, a specialist in testing, personalisation and optimisation solutions, to optimise its website. Maxymiser will work with the scooter specialist to develop and implement a strategy that identifies the optimum design, content

21/05/2012 | Online retailers, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
Online shopping site, mySupermarket, spurs expansion on $10m investment

Online shopping site, mySupermarket, spurs expansion on $10m investment

Online shopping site, mySupermarket, is on a roll. It is ratcheting up users, adding new brand stores, launching a transactional mobile website and expanding internationally on the back of a recent $10m investment led by WPP. James Foord, vp business

17/05/2012 | Online food retailing, Online non-food retailing grocers, Online retailers, Retail News | Read More
Wettest April on record depresses online clothing sales, e-Retail Index reveals

Wettest April on record depresses online clothing sales, e-Retail Index reveals

UK shoppers spent an estimated £5.7bn online in April, a year-on-year growth of 10% and equivalent to £112.00 per person, according to the latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. Although this growth level comes in lower than IMRG and Capgemini’s

17/05/2012 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Brand Match aids Sainsbury’s price perception and helps fuel 7.1% profits growth

Sainsbury’s has praised its Brand Match promotion for improving its price perception on branded groceries and helping to deliver a 7.1% increase in underlying profits to £712m in the year to 17 March 2012. Total sales, excluding fuel, rose 4.5%

09/05/2012 | Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
Retailers can adapt to weather changes with good planning, claims Torex

Retailers can adapt to weather changes with good planning, claims Torex

As Met Office figures confirm last month was the wettest April on record, global retail technology provider, Torex, says retailers can adapt to unexpected changes in weather with good merchandise planning systems. Charlotte Kula-Przezwanski, global enterprise practice lead, Torex, said:

04/05/2012 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More

Wettest April on record sees sales and traffic spike at duvet and pillow website

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

01/05/2012 | Data Time, Online retailers, Online retailing specialist, Research, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

Sales from mobile devices drive growth for online retailers at Easter, reports IBM

Sales from mobile devices surged 196% for UK online retailers in the week leading up to Easter Sunday 2012, helping to drive overall online sales growth of 6% year-on-year, according to new data from IBM. It found:  Mobile traffic accounted

13/04/2012 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Brightpearl reports its software customers post like-for-like growth of 35%

Brightpearl, a supplier of cloud-based software for small retailers, reports its customers’ growth figures are bucking industry trends. According to the company, its software has helped its customers record like-for-like sales growth of 35% between February 2011 and February 2012. 

03/04/2012 | Online retailers, Online retailing specialist, Retail News | Read More

Ireland’s top delivery company invests in IT to support internet-based sales

Ireland’s leading delivery company, Nightline, has invested in new IT to support its ability to handle rising parcel volumes from internet-based sales. Nightline is spending €900,000 on equipment from identification technology supplier Zetes, which will see the firm’s drivers and

21/03/2012 | Logistics, Online retailers, Retail News, Retailer News, Services Time | Read More

Sainsbury’s sales up 2.6% in fourth quarter but could do better, says consultant

Sainsbury’s has reported a 2.6% increase in like-for-like sales in the fourth quarter and claims its convenience, online and non-food businesses are all growing ahead of the market. However, a leading retail consultant argues the UK’s third largest supermarket should

21/03/2012 | Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

Online sales up 10% in February 2012 but driven by pure players, Index reveals

Figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveal shoppers in the UK spent a total of £5.4bn (equivalent to £106 per person) online during February 2012; up 10% on the same time last year, but representing a growth rate of just half that

20/03/2012 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Ocado poised to tap growth in UK online grocery market

Ocado poised to tap growth in UK online grocery market

Ocado claims it is well placed to exploit the expansion in online grocery shopping in the UK. Announcing a 16.6% rise in gross sales for the 52 weeks ending 27 November 2011, CEO Tim Steiner, said: “Against the backdrop of

31/01/2012 | Online food retailing, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

Online sales soar 16.5% to £7.9bn, IMRG Capgemini figures reveal

Online sales in the UK reached £7.9bn in December 2011, equivalent to £155.00 per person, fiigures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveal.  Sales were up by 12.2% on November 2011 and by 16.5% on December 2010, with the

19/01/2012 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Designer discount website group appoints Leloup as president

BrandAlley Group, the French parent company of designer discount website, BrandAlley UK, has appointed CEO Antoine Leloup as president.   The move follows the departure of Sven Lung who has left the Group at the end of his six-year term

03/01/2012 | People, Retail News | Read More

Hostway: retailers risk lost sales if they can’t handle mobile traffic

Web site hosting company, Hostway, has warned retailers risk losing significant revenue from missed Christmas and January sales if their IT infrastructure fails to cope with the sharp increases in traffic from mobile users downloading and using shopping applications.  UK

15/12/2011 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More

Retailers need to be ready for Cyber Monday online surge, experts warn

hosting providerOnline retailers are bracing themselves for a surge in shopping today, Cyber Monday, but they must deliver a good customer experience, internet experts warn. Kevin Flood, CEO of social shopping website Shopow, said: “The peak in online Christmas sales

28/11/2011 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More

AT Kearney: battle for share of Christmas spend will be fierce

Emmanuel Hembert, principal in the retail practice at management consultants, AT Kearney, predicts the battle for share of Christmas spend on the UK high street will be fierce and claims further casualties are inevitable “As the Christmas lights are switched

04/11/2011 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More
ASOS doubles online delivery volumes with twilight service

ASOS doubles online delivery volumes with twilight service

Online fashion retailer ASOS has launched a twilight delivery service, allowing customers to place orders up to midnight and receive home delivery the following day. The service was introduced in London and has been extended  to customers in Leeds and Manchester.

06/10/2011 | Online retailers, Online retailing specialist, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More

Retailers look online to appeal to modern shoppers, claims Shopow

Online retail continues to position itself as a vital platform for modern shoppers, according to social shopping website Shopow.  At the same time, high street chains are increasingly looking to the web as a new avenue for sales, it says. 

18/08/2011 | Data Time, Online retailers, Research, Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
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