With New Year approaching, many marketers will seek to profit from all the resolution making that goes on, writes Alice Dunn, marketing executive, Kantar Media.
For brands facing insolvency it is vital that lucrative intangibles are separated from their poorer performing counterparts, writes Stuart Whitwell, managing director, Intangible Business.
Former M&S chief executive Sir Stuart Rose tells Andrew McCormick why he is banking on mobile.
Modern retailers need to get to grips with data to respond to the current and future needs of their customers, write Tim Watson, strategy director at Ogilvy Action, and Richard Matthews, head of customer insight at Logica.
Retailers planning to exploit Black Friday or Cyber Monday next year should tread carefully, writes Mark Ursell, CEO, Tpoll.
Despite the continued rise of ecommerce, a large number of British consumers are braving the traffic, crowds and cold to shop on the high street.
Microsoft has sold its online shopping portal Ciao to LeGuide.com, the pan-European publisher of digital shopping guides, for an undisclosed sum.
Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's will compete on Boxing Day and New Year's Day for shoppers' wallets, while the major supermarkets try to outdo each other with ambitious job-creation plans for 2012.
Thorntons, the troubled chocolate maker, has today ( 21 December) issued a fresh profit warning, citing poor customer confidence and rivals' promotions as hitting its performance.
Car and bicycle specialist Halfords is ditching its secret shoppers' initiative in favour of a customer feedback scheme.
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