Is advertising a key Christmas ingredient?
17 Dec 2010 | by Keith Glasspoole
Fifty five percent of UK adults agree that Christmas ads help set the mood for the festive season, new research from Ipsos ASI reveals.
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Online retailers enjoyed a welcome boost following a December blighted by weather-related disruption with Christmas Day achieving record figures and Boxing Day proving to be the busiest online shopping day of the year.
Fifty five percent of UK adults agree that Christmas ads help set the mood for the festive season, new research from Ipsos ASI reveals.
Frantic shopping brought Tesco's Christmas clubcard website offer to a standstill earlier this week, as consumers chose to redeem a Christmas offer at the last-minute.
Waitrose's Christmas app has broken into the BR app chart, while celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has made a higher entry with his new Jamie's Recipes app.
Waitrose is expecting a surge of activity as 600 extra Christmas puddings, developed by chef Heston Blumenthal, prepare to hit the shelves just days after a total sell-out created a lucrative online market.
Retailer John Lewis has posted strong trading figures for the first week of Christmas shopping, but said the results did not reflect wider consumer confidence.
Sainsbury's showed strong growth in sales of 7% to £11.9bn over the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year, with pre-tax profit up 36.3% to £466m.
Marks & Spencer is to focus on its core UK brand before pushing it around the world, according to chief executive Marc Bolland this morning, as pre-tax profits rose by 17% to £348.8m in the first six months of the year from sales of £4.6bn.
Retail giant Tesco has launched a new Clubcard promotion to allow customers to double the value of their points for a month in the run-up to Christmas.
The cast of 'Coronation Street' have got together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to record an album marking the 50th anniversary of the UK's longest-running soap.