Online sales grew by 12.3% in February: ONS - Online sales grew in value by 12.3% in February, compared with a year earlier, official figures suggested today. An average of £870.8m a week was spent via ecommerce, accounting for 13.1% of all retail spending, excluding automotive fuel, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in its Retail Sales report, February 2016. That’s up from 11.9% in February 2015. But while online sales grew compared to the previous year, they were down by 1% co...

Next sets out how it is following customers as they move towards mobile and away from home delivery

Screwfix sales reach £1bn as it provides model for five-year Kingfisher transformation plan

MasterCard to bring Android Pay to cardholders in the UK - Millions of MasterCard cardholders and Android device owners in the UK will soon have additional safe and secure ways to make mobile payments and purchases, as Google today announced it will launch Android Pay in this market. HSBC, Lloyds, MBNA and M&S Bank will be the first banks to support Android Pay in the UK, following Android Pay’s successful launch in the United States in September 2015. Android Pay enables MasterCard credit,...

Laura Ashley online sales grow by 5.3% to reach £51.1m - Laura Ashley [IRDX RLAU] today said online sales passed the £50m milestone in its latest financial year. Ecommerce sales of £51.1m were £2.6m, or 5.3%, ahead of the same time last year. Online now accounts for 19.5% of UK retail sales at the fashion to homewares company, a Top100 company in the IRUK Top500. The udpate came as Laura Ashley reported sales of £289.5m in the year to January 30. That’s down by 4.6% in total, but up by 4.8%...

Jimmy Choo set for omnichannel rollout as part of ongoing transformation

Next shows what’s next for e-commerce - News that Next [IRDX RNXT] – a Leading company in IRUK Top500 research and leader in the Operations and Logistics Performance Dimension within that ranking – is seeing a massive volume of e-commerce traffic coming through mobile channels comes as no surprise. What is interesting is what it reveals about shopping habits and apps verses m-web. Next has always been something of a pioneer in mobile, being one of the first major retailers to have a transac...

BHS wins backing from landlords for plan that will see it refocus on multichannel

Game puts multichannel retailing at heart of strategy as it fights back from falling sales and profits

DFS focuses on omnichannel, and reports ecommerce sales up by 17.7%

Naked Wines hits £100m sales for the first time - Crowd-funded, social media-driven Naked Wines has reached £100m in sales for the first time, its parent company said today. Majestic Wine [IRDX RMAJ], a Top100 company in IRUK Top500 research, today said the milestone had come in a year that started on March 31, 2015, and was thanks to a focus on social distribution to provide ‘angel’ customers with exclusive access to quality wine, backed up by customer service. Naked Wines now has more tha...

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