Stop Press
21 Sep 2000
International sales and internet shopping have boosted profits at supermarket chain Tesco. The company said international sales were up 42% to pounds 1.17bn in the half-year to August 12.
Argos, the high street and catalogue retailer, has poached Blockbuster's UK marketing chief, Siobhan Chatburn, to be its new director of marketing.
International sales and internet shopping have boosted profits at supermarket chain Tesco. The company said international sales were up 42% to pounds 1.17bn in the half-year to August 12.
Gap, Dixons and WH Smith have signed up to a pilot text messaging scheme on offer to retailers in the Lakeside Shopping Centre, Essex, that allows them to send messages to customers mobile phones as they enter the mall.
Courts, the furniture retailer, is hoping to attract a younger and more aspirational breed of shopper with a new pounds 20m advertising campaign, store redesigns and the launch of a transactional web site.
LONDON – Budgens, the convenience store group, has axed its internet home shopping service just months after its launch because it failed to meet expectations and drum up enough demand from customers.
Asda is buying the 48 concession pharmacies within its supermarkets from drug wholesaler Alliance Unichem for 100m.
EasyGroup, the parent company of easyJet, easyRentacar and easyEverything, has lost a cybersquatting case against easyMaterial.com over the use of its domain name.
Camelot should find out whether it is allowed to join Sir Richard Branson in a bid for the next lottery licence today.
William Morrison Supermarkets has bucked the trend of difficult trading in the food retail sector with strong like-for-like sales and a healthy profits increase.