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Amazon has announced plans to expand its grocery offering following record holiday sales. UK boss Christopher North has said that the online retailer plans to extend its Pantry service rapidly in 2016. The increase in Amazon Prime members over the recent festive period has reiterated the fact that consumer spending habits...
Superdry launched its menswear collaboration with celebrity Idris Elba at the end of November, ‘shutting down’ its flagship Regent Street store as a result of the launch. The event was driven by a strong social media strategy, reaching 2.8m consumers across all social channels on the day of the launch. To build...
After being acquired by sofa specialist DFS last year, furniture retailer Dwell is now continuing the second phase of its nationwide expansion. Over the Boxing Day weekend the retailer will open a new 5,500 sq ft concept store in Oxford, part of a strategy that will result in a 40% footfall...
John Lewis has said its clearance sale got off to a solid start after launching online on Christmas Eve at 5pm. In the first full hour of the sale, the retailer saw a 17.7% rise in orders compared to last year. Online shopping continued on Christmas Day with orders up 10.7%...
Fashion brand Abercrombie & Fitch has promoted Fran Horowitz, president of its Hollister brand, to president and chief merchandising officer of the company. The news follows the departure of Christos Angelides who served as Abercrombie & Fitch brand president from October 2014. In the newly created position, Horowitz will have responsibility for...
Wedding shop Wed2b has signed up for a new store at The Crescent Hinckley. The retailer will be moving early next year from Burbage into a new 5,000 square foot unit at the new development in Hinckley town centre. Wed2b now has ten stores across the UK and stocks around 1,000 designer...
Specialist video games retailer, GAME Digital, has issued a first half profit warning after facing weaker than expected sales. In the 21 weeks ending 19th December, total group gross transaction value dropped by 6.7% to £466.8 million. GAME said the fall was mainly due to a 20.3% reduction in low margin...
Fitted bedroom specialist Sharps has made its biggest marketing investment to date with a £2million omni-channel campaign to drive sales and appointments. Designed by The Market Creative last year, the ‘Created with You’ brand proposition will now be rolled-out across all channels and with a greater focus on home interest trends. The Market...
Homewares and furniture retailer Habitat has launched a new website to enable it to evolve its online customer experience after reporting an increase of over 35% in website traffic over the last year. Developed by an in-house team and digital agency Salmon, the new responsive site has been built with a...
John Lewis sales increased by 7% year-on-year last week in what was the final full week's trade before Christmas. As online sales rose by 30.3%, the retailer has extended its click & collect deadline to 8pm on the 23rd December which will enable customers to pick up orders on Christmas Eve in...
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