13 Dec 2001
Debenhams has extended its e-commerce offering with a health and
beauty line featuring brands such as Estee Lauder, Calvin Klein and
Clinique as well as its own-branded health and beauty products. It is
also providing pre-Christmas free delivery as well as gift vouchers for
beauty brand Clarins....
06 Dec 2001
Janet Reger, the lingerie and nightwear brand, has launched its
first e-commerce site at www.janetreger.co.uk to challenge competitors
such as Agent Provocateur. Web design agency Reading Room overhauled the
previous content-only site. It now offers a gift-wrap service and
overnight delivery...
28 Nov 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Andreas Schmidt, CEO of Bertelsmann's eCommerce Group famed for inking a controversial deal with Napster, has been ousted from the German media giant amid reports that the unit he ran is to be folded into its direct-to-customer division, Bertelsmann Direct Group.
16 Nov 2001
| by ALASDAIR REID
It really could have been a lot worse, obviously, if some
translator deep in the bowels of the European Union labyrinth in
Brussels had not translated the phrase "opt out" into the Italian
equivalent of "opt in".
And vice versa. In the looking glass world of Brussels, there's usually...
08 Nov 2001
The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers has written to
e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander to express advertisers' concern
over EU proposals that would define internet cookies - the technology
that allows advertisers to anonymously track users' behaviour on the web
- as personal data....
20 Sep 2001
Woolworths, the high street retailer that recently demerged from
the Kingfisher group, has relaunched a stripped down e-commerce site
following last month's decision to scale back its e-commerce activities
and scrap its interactive TV offering on SkyDigital. The site now offers
only its entertainment...
24 Aug 2001
| by DEBORAH BONELLO
Beeb.com is moving focus from BBC brands to build e-tail.
Revamps, realignments, e-commerce rejigs. All these treatments have been
on the prescription list for dotcoms over the past 18 months or so, and
it seems that the next patient is Beeb.com, BBC Worldwide's shopping
portal....
17 Aug 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - Angela Megson, e-commerce director at Sainsbury's, has resigned just a week after the supermarket group and Carlton Communications pulled the plug on their joint-venture television and internet food and drink project, the Taste Network.
15 Aug 2001
| by MediaWeek
4car signs e-commerce deals
01 Aug 2001
| by Baumer and Poindexter
Cyberlaw and E-Commerce has been created to address the legal issues surrounding the Internet and Electronic Commerce in light of technological changes that have radically altered the legal realities that confront business managers.By Baumer and Poindexter