22 Dec 2000
Online games retailer Gameplay reported strong year-on-year sales growth yesterday, prompting its...LONDON (Brand Republic) - Online games retailer Gameplay reported strong year-on-year sales growth yesterday, prompting its share price to leap by 11.5% this morning.
The company said revenues for the half year ended January 31 were expected to exceed 40m in spite of current technology market trends ...
21 Dec 2000
News and information company Reuters has scrapped plans for a retail version of its online...LONDON (Brand Republic) - News and information company Reuters has scrapped plans for a retail ...
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The retail product is an equity-trading scheme for private investors. Reuters chief executive Peter Job said ...
business, allowing third-party retail brokers to licence and use it under their own brand-names.
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21 Dec 2000
The Body Shop is combining its e-commerce operations with its existing retail and mail...The Body Shop is combining its e-commerce operations with its existing retail and mail-order businesses after ending a partnership with Softbank Technology Ventures. The Body Shop will buy specific assets of the jointly owned company, The Body Shop Digital, paying either dollars 6m in cash or through ...
21 Dec 2000
Superdrug.com, the web site of the Kingfisher-owned health and beauty retailer, has handed its home...Superdrug.com, the web site of the Kingfisher-owned health and beauty retailer, has handed its home delivery service business to online fulfilment specialist M-box.
The partnership will see M-box s fleet of motorbike couriers deliver a selection of goods from the 2500 lines available on the Superdrug ...
21 Dec 2000
| by BEN ROSIER
eToys, the US online toy retailer, will shut down its UK operation early in the new year, resulting...eToys, the US online toy retailer, will shut down its UK operation early in the new year, resulting in the loss of about 90 jobs - if a significant new investor is not found.
Staff at the company s London offices were told of the decision, which comes as part of a drastic cost-cutting plan ...
20 Dec 2000
investor Softbank, in a move which will bring the retailer’s website in-house....LONDON (Brand Republic) – The Body Shop has severed its contract with its internet partner, troubled Japanese internet investor Softbank, in a move which will bring the retailer’s website in-house.
The ethical cosmetics and toiletries retailer will pay 6m for Softbank’s 24% stake in the joint venture ...
19 Dec 2000
Online retailer eToys.com is understood to be looking for a buyer after warning that its Christmas...LONDON (Brand Republic) - Online retailer eToys.com is understood to be looking for a buyer after warning that its Christmas sales will be well below expectations.
The company, which is based in Santa Monica, California, expects its third-quarter sales to be between 120m and 130m, after forecasting ...
15 Dec 2000
| by ALASDAIR REID
partnerships with the retail and banking partners that now inhabit Open s virtual mall. And it facilitated ...
by focusing on getting its content providers on board - its partners in the banking and retail sectors ...
even further to one of Open s partner retailers such as Argos and Comet. The system will deliver you ...
14 Dec 2000
retailer, spent about pounds 80m in the seven months before it went into receivership. In the contorted ...
13 Dec 2000
.com, the online retailer which allows consumers to name their own price for airline tickets and hotel rooms....LONDON (Brand Republic) – William Shatner, the former Star Trek star, is thought to have parted company with Priceline.com, the online retailer which allows consumers to name their own price for airline tickets and hotel rooms.
Shatner has acted as the advertising spokesman for Priceline.com since its ...