All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 519
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Ocado to expand beyond food
Ocado is to expand beyond food into areas such as clothing and health and beauty as it notches up sales of 1 billion.
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Ebay triumphs in counterfeit goods case
EBay has survived a four-year legal wrangle with Tiffany over the jeweller’s claim that the online auction site should be held liable for the sale of counterfeit jewellery on its site.
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Flying Brands to shut Greetings Direct after US move flops
Home shopping group Flying Brands is to shut its Greetings Direct business after its US launch failed.
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Up close and personal
Asos wants to tailor its communications to different customers. Marketing boss Hash Ladha tells Joanna Perry how a customer relationship management system will help it meet its aims
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Asos set for overseas assault as profits race booms
Asos is poised to launch foreign-language versions of its web site as it sets its sights on international expansion to continue market-leading growth.
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EBay hit by retailer backlash
EBay is facing a backlash from retailers and brands after the online auction site was ordered to pay damages of €40 million ( 31.9 million) to LVMH this week.
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EBay to pay out to LVMH
Auction site eBay has been ordered by a French court to pay almost €40 million ( 31.7 million) to luxury goods group LVMH for failing to block the sales of counterfeit goods on its site.
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Asos profits rocket 117%
Online fashion retailer Asos continues to buck the downturn, recording pre-tax profits up 117 per cent to 7.3 million.
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The message is clear
Consumers are not yet using their mobile phones to do all their shopping, as some forecast, but retailers are still finding them a powerful tool. Joanna Perry investigates
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Fast retailing
Aggressive international expansion was causing headaches for Comptoir des Cotonniers IT director Marc Bernhard. The solution? An EPoS system that could integrate easily and be delivered and managed remotely. Joanna Perry reports
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EBTM profits soar
Multichannel music retailer EBTM has increased its revenue 401 per cent to 6.7 million in its full-year results, driven by acquisitions it made last year.
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Average price of grocery basket up 21 per cent
The price of a shopping basket containing 24 staple items of food has increased by an average of 21 per cent year on year, according to online price comparison site Mysupermarket.co.uk.
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Flying brands: the city view
Tricia Killen, former president of Reader’s Digest for Western Europe, has her work cut out as the new chief executive of home shopping group Flying Brands.
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Flying Brands to miss targets
Home shopping group Flying Brands has continued to suffer from bad debts and warned that it will miss full-year profits by 1.1 million.
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Play.com reveals first phase of site revamp
Play.com has revealed that the redesign of its web site is only the beginning of a phase of planned development work.
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AnalysisCode cracker: Lack of post code system hampers home shopping in Ireland
Home shopping and internet retailing have failed to achieve their potential in Ireland. And there is one very good reason why: aside from Greece, Ireland is the only European member state that does not have an established postal code system, which means that offering a home delivery service is proving an extremely complex and often expensive challenge.
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Asos to launch menswear catalogue
Online fashion retailer ASOS.com is to launch a menswear catalogue this week.
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NewsNet-a-Porter launches review
Internet entrepreneur Natalie Massenet is understood to be conducting a review of her fashion e-tail business Net-a-Porter.com.
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Ocado opens door to float with five-year Waitrose deal
Ocado has agreed in principle a landmark five-year deal with Waitrose, paving the way for a potential flotation of the e-tailer.
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Asos picks Paperchase IT boss to drive web
Asos has poached Paperchase global IT chief Gary Mudie to bolster its growing web site, as it revealed a sharp rise in full-year sales.