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 ...
22 Dec 2000
| by Louise Banbury
not trading, will go to retail group Kingfisher for 219m. Sainsbury s will also keep an 18% stake in Homebase ...
, but managing director Kate Swann has resigned to join catalogue retailer Argos. Sainsbury s has been looking ...
15.4% market share, compared with Sainsbury s 15%, the retailer said. However, in a BBC Online ...
21 Dec 2000
| by MARK KLEINMAN
of marketing services at the telecom giant s commercial division, BT Retail....of marketing services at the telecom giant s commercial division, BT Retail.
MacKenzie will take charge ...
, reporting to Ray Smith, managing director of BT Retail.
She will work across day-to-day implementation of advertising and PR for all three of BT Retail s units: consumer, corporate and small businesses.
She ...
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 ...
.
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.
www.reuters.com
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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
JD Williams, the catalogue retailer that is part of the N Brown group of companies, is outsourcing...JD Williams, the catalogue retailer that is part of the N Brown group of companies, is outsourcing customer-order taking by hiring beCogent. The telemarketing company will handle 50,000 in-bound calls a week.
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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 ...
21 Dec 2000
| by TANIA MASON
at Nike, most recently as marketing manager for its European retail division. She said she made the jump ...
21 Dec 2000
| by BEN ROSIER
itself as a more modern luxury retailer, reflecting its diversification into online sales.
A key part ...