STOP PRESS: News in brief
28 Jun 2001
The Body Shop has announced that its takeover talks with Omnilife de Mexico SA have ended.
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Tesco is taking a 35 per cent stake in Groceryworks, the online retailing arm of the US supermarket giant Safeway Inc. Tesco is to help Safeway relaunch the loss-making online retailer following its success with Tesco.com, its UK online retailing arm.
The Body Shop has announced that its takeover talks with Omnilife de Mexico SA have ended.
The Body Shop has announced that its takeover talks with Omnilife de Mexico SA have ended.
LONDON - Tesco has announced plans to expand its online retailing operation in the US through a partnership with Safeway, one of America's largest food retailers.
LONDON - BACS, the organisation that runs debit and credit processing in the UK, is talking to creative agencies about its 2 million Direct Debit account.
Reg Vardy, the UK's third-largest motor retailer, with 80 dealerships across the country, has shortlisted M&C Saatchi, Bates UK and TBWA/London to contest the creative assignment on its TV account. The company's press and radio advertising is handled in-house.
Daily Mail & General Trust has threatened to end its distribution contract with WH Smith. The move may upset the retailer's proposed sale of its newspaper and magazine wholesale division. - Financial Times.
Benetton has apologised to the families of US murder victims distressed by its "Death Row" campaign. It is also paying dollars 50,000 in compensation to a fund for victims of crime, but refused to accept that the main thrust of the campaign was wrong. - The Independent.
Consumers are not put off buying electronic products, despite the speed with which the technology is superseded, according to research by Taylor Nelson Sofres for Marketing. Just over one-fifth of people interviewed, 21%, said that they have been put off buying an electronic product in...
Budgens is launching a year-long Best of British campaign to highlight its commitment to British producers. The push will focus on four of the supermarket chain's suppliers and will feature them in promotional material.