14 Dec 2006
| by by Staff
Confident, award-winning advertising has helped M&S stage a stunning financial comeback and restore...Connection slowly but surely began stealing M S's clothes (or at least they would have done had they not become so dowdy and old-fashioned).
Today, having undergone its catharsis, M S is a reformed ...
back the deserters.
It is a measure of how far M S's voyage of rediscovery has progressed that its ...
announced that like-for-like sales had slumped more than 7%, while profit dipped 8% to £111m. Despite ...
.
Next spends more than £2.9m on promotional activity in the UK each year: £1.1m goes on direct mail ...
07 Dec 2006
| by by Joe Lepper
, Amsterdam, Berlin and Madrid.
In October this year it awarded Carat its £15m pan-European media planning ...
06 Dec 2006
| by by Joe Lepper
LONDON - Waitrose and Marks & Spencer have topped an annual poll of loyalty among supermarket shoppers for the second year running.
06 Dec 2006
| by by Joe Lepper
in Europe for Tommy Hilfiger follows the awarding of its £15m pan-European media planning and buying account ...
stores before being forced to close all but five after losses of
£80m. Uniqlo's founder, Tadashi Yanai ...
. Instead of replicating the successful international game plan of brands
including H&M, Zara and Gap ...
The website, which goes live in March 2007, is being described by the publisher as an online interactive shopping website for style-conscious women and will have a target audience of more than 13m UK women.
Nicky Eaton, spokeswoman for Conde Nast, said that StyleFinder would act as a portal linking ...
01 Dec 2006
jolly way of showing the standard
car shots without Mr and Mrs Smug and family. I'm a total sucker ...
want to treat themselves at Christmas? Tell me I'm wrong, but
that's what the sales are for. If it ...
reason, I
really like this. I'm not overly sure why - maybe it's because it has
the feel of being fresh ...
30 Nov 2006
| by by Ian Darby
LONDON - Gap, the US fashion retailer, has kicked off a review of its £30m pan-European media...to the $100m business in June. PHD was the previous incumbent.
The retailer is battling to turn around its fortunes on the high street. Its global third-quarter profits were $189m, down from $212m in the same period in 2005.
Gap's 2005 European sales fell 6% to $825m from $879m the year before. In the past two ...
29 Nov 2006
retailer H&M, for example. By most accounts the brand is in great shape.
The problem for H&M ...
,
including Zara, and recently overtook H&M to become Europe's biggest
clothing retailer. While H&M ...
and will end 2006 with almost three
times as many outlets as its Swedish rival. H&M can feel pleased with a ...