23 Dec 2011
| by Andrew McCormick
Former M&S chief executive Sir Stuart Rose tells Andrew McCormick why he is banking on mobile....for mobile retail.
The IMRG estimates that mobile retail was worth just 10m in the UK in 2011 ...
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Why the move to mobile and why now?
I'm a shopkeeper. It's never exclusively high ...
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I'm optimistic about what we're trying to do. I'm under no illusions. First of all ...
22 Dec 2011
| by Mark Ursell
The final tally is now in: Brits spent a staggering 19m per hour on Cyber Monday this year - that s a total of 456m.
The figures are up 14% on last year, and come at a time when forecasters are predicting that high street retail takings will fall 1.2bn year on year to 55.66bn over the festive season ...
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UK consumers are set to spend 186.4m online on Christmas day this year, 12% more than last year ...
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The 5.2m ad campaign, which launched in October and was created by Adam Eve, resulted in 526 ...
20 Dec 2011
| by Deborah McCrudden
I absolutely love Christmas advertising. It helps to get me in the festive mood. But I'm finding a...were watching last Sunday s final you will have noticed that the M S ad was edited to give Little Mix a ...
the position of social networks can be. At its December 2008 peak, Myspace attracted 75.9m monthly unique visitors in the US, according to ComScore. News Corporation bought MySpace for $580m ( 373m) in the same ...
- Marketing director, Ford of Britain. November
'I'm not in marketing to win awards. It's about ...
The retailer has posted sales of 133.1m in the week ending 17 December, which marks a 10.6% year-on-year increase and a 7.8% rise on last week's record figure of 123.5m.
The retailer claims cash-strapped consumers are being drawn to the store because of its commitment to the 'Never Knowingly Undersold' pledge ...
HMV has reported a £36.4m pre-tax loss and said it may be forced to sell its live music division...for the 26 weeks until 29 October.
Its 36.4m pre-tax loss compares to a 27.4m loss for the same period ...
UK consumers are set to spend £186.4m online on Christmas day this year, 12% more than last year...It is forecasting that on Boxing Day, consumers will be spending almost double the amount they spent last year, with online sales set to reach 367.8m.
According to IMRG, more consumers are going online on Christmas day to deliver Christmas messages on social networks via desktops and mobile devices ...