20 Dec 2001
Littlewoods, the stores and home shopping group, said it will
concentrate on improving its margins over the next year and continue to
move away from discounting. It reported a pre-tax loss of 9.9m
for the six months to October 31, against a loss of 34.2m the
previous year.
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20 Dec 2001
| by SUZY BASHFORD
The Body Shop marketing director Ronnie
Helvey to take up its chief marketing role with a brief to launch ...
use of shop
windows.
- Expand Harrods.com.
- Think local as well as international ...
17 Dec 2001
, "consumer rag" Which? claims that "school-targeted shopping promotion schemes don't provide particularly ...
, the awards may seem chintzy, but they're only there as an extra incentive to shop. If the main reasons to buy ...
giveaway wouldn't attract people to shop for food when all they really want is a computer. Then again ...
13 Dec 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN and SUZY BASHFORD
Harrods has poached The Body Shop's marketing director, Ronny
Helvey, to fill its top marketing post, with a brief including the
launch of a credit card-based loyalty scheme for the world-famous
department store.
Helvey, who takes up the position at Harrods in the new year, will
assume ...
07 Dec 2001
| by MATTHEW COWEN, matthew.cowen@haynet.com
and that
leaves a good ten months when people go shopping rationally. At best,
Zoe Ball and company will leave M ...
06 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
in the future as ebookers.com, the online travel group, announces that it is to drop the dotcom appendage from...The company is the latest in a long line of companies which have distanced themselves from their dotcom beginnings. ebookers, Europe's largest online travel company, has changed its name to ebookers plc ...
out of online retailing and, last month, Sportingbet.com dropped the dotcom to become Sportingbet ...
06 Dec 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN
months.
Separately, sister Arcadia brand Top Shop has unveiled plans to launch a
range of Top ...
03 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
Fashionmall.com, a New York-based fashion portal, said it was considering pulling out of online retailing as it is doing too little business online to justify the continuing costs.
It is understood ...
as bringing the site back to life, it also bought the site's virtual shopping assistant -- Ms Boo ...
30 Nov 2001
as MyTravel. The firm plans to rebrand all its retail shops, its fleet of aircraft and online operations ...
getting online.
Not quite sure where men's magazine GQ 's brand strategy is heading, but news ...
30 Nov 2001
| by MATTHEW COWEN
that the sex
shop's ads purport to show the faces of men and women mid-orgasm, it's
rather the details ...
-grabbing, obviously, but they also offer a real
differentiation from the way sex - and sex shops - tend to be sold ...
ads and the
high-street sex shops positioning themselves as an extension of "girl
power". They cut ...