WAE+ says it is on target to hit sales of £9m in only its second year of trading after turning in sales of £4.48m in the first half of its financial year.
The Birmingham-based pureplay sells goods …

Asos chief executive Nick Robertson today said £1bn in annual sales was “firmly in our sights” as he reported a 34% first-half boost to turnover at the fashion etailer, while profits grew by 19%.
The company …

UK retailers will grow their overseas online sales by more than seven times to hit £28bn in 2020, up from £4bn in 2012.
That’s the prediction of a new study from OC&C Strategy Consultants, working in …

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Claire’s Accessories is launching its first-ever affiliate programme.
The jewellery and accessories brand is working exclusively with global performance network, Affiliate Window, and the announcement comes soon after news of Claire’s first ecommerce website. The launch …

Amazon has unveiled sales up by more than a fifth, but profits down by more than a third.
The world’s biggest online retailer, which trades in the UK as Amazon.co.uk, last night announced net sales up …

The world’s largest retailers have slowed global expansion to focus instead on multichannel, according to new research.
Analysis of the Accenture Globalization Index, which analyses Planet Retail data for nearly 500 of the largest global retailers, …

N Brown Group said today that its online revenue had grown by 15% to £424m in its latest financial year, and now accounted for 55% of its total home shopping revenues.
More than a quarter (26%) …

Sports Direct said today that ecommerce now accounts for 15% of its total sports retail sales.
The news came as Sports Direct International said its sports retail sales had grown by 13.6% to £264.3m in the …

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John Lewis’ annual online sales have passed the £1bn milestone – a year early.
The multichannel retailer expected its yearly sales to hit £1bn in 2014, and says its success in reaching the milestone early, …

Asda today said it would invest more than £700m to accelerate the pace of development in its multichannel business. Innovations will include same-day delivery for online grocery orders, billed as a ‘world-first’ and set …

British online businesses are growing more than 50 times faster than the economy as a whole, a new study has found. The Barclays report came as separate spending data from Barclaycard showed online sales climbed …

Carpetright today said “self-help initiatives” including investment in digital media had helped the carpet-to-beds retailer to grow its UK sales  in the first quarter of the year.
In a trading statement today the company said UK …

In a move that raises interesting questions about what it means to be a online retailer, ecommerce giant Amazon has moved beyond content sale to content production.
Amazon Studios has launched its first TV show pilots …

Claire’s has looked ahead to the way its customers will shop in the future to design its first European website, aimed at the UK market.
Claires.co.uk integrates with social media and has a dynamic mobile site, …

Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke today pledged that the supermarket would work to become “the best multichannel retailer for customers.”
The pledge came as Tesco  announced its first fall in annual profits for almost 20 years, but …

Consumers bought online rather than venturing to the shops during March’s cold weather, official figures suggested today.
The ONS’ Retail Sales figures for March found that 10.4% of all retail sales took place over the internet. …

Debenhams today reported strong multichannel growth, with online sales up by 46% to £194.4m in the first half of its year. Some 12.7% of all the department store group’s sales now take place over …

Major changes are predicted for the high street in the coming year, with one in four retailers predicting that over the next year the UK’s physical stores will start to transform into showrooms where shoppers …