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with up to 153m on Christmas Day , a period traditionally absolved from festive spending fever.
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23 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
In the week to 18 December, John Lewis reported a record weekly performance, with its second-best sales to date and marking only the second time the group has turned over 120m in a week, despite the sales freeze due to the cold weather .
However, the increases have stalled a little in the four days ...
consumers parting with up to £153m, according to analysis from the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG)....by analysis from payments company Visa, which estimates that 960,000 transactions, worth 36m in total ...
22 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
in an attempt to raise 100m, prior to a privitisation in 2011.
Postcomm has provisionally approved ...
157m loss on such "access' activities, where collections are made by rivals such as TNT, but delivered ...
parliament within a year.
Retailers are trialling an evening delivery service within the M25 ...
Breakfast cereal company Weetabix is reviewing its £10m advertising account....The statutory review is being handled by Oystercatchers and pitches will take place in February.
Incumbent agency WCRS will be repitching for the account. The agency won the business, then worth 10m ...
personalities, including Simon Greenall from 'I'm Alan Partridge', Matthew Holness from 'The Office', and Simon ...
17 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), internet sales accounted for 660m a week in the country, out of total weekly retail sales of 6.3bn, excluding fuel. The continued growth of internet retailing is stark, growing at 3.5 times the rate of the whole sector month to month. Internet sales rose 37 ...
10 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
growth of smartphones and the mobile internet, m-commerce has rapidly grown in to a huge opportunity ...
channel, clearly there are huge gains to be made with a transactional m-commerce strategy in 2011," he ...
for the UK media planning and buying business for its gardening tools division, worth £1m.
07 Dec 2010
| by Helen Edwards
, brands and categories need a reason to exist: I'm just not sure what this one is. With money tight ...
To some extent, this may soon be possible, thanks to a new initiative from Sky to provide up to 10m UK households with a range of energy services, including maintenance and repair.
The plan to help consumers become more energy-efficient makes perfect sense. Apart from its strong sustainability ...