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The garden centre chain’s new site will support the expansion of Dobbies’ social media strategy through blogs, forums and the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace
After spending over $5m acquiring the Toys.com domain name, Toys R Us has seen the site getting de-indexed by Google because it forwarded the domain rather than transferred it
“This business has continued to fall short of our expectations and customers’ expectations,” CEO John Donahoe has told analysts. “That’s not acceptable.”
The move follows the company’s decision to reduce its in-store involvement in the entertainment sector
Another week, another Asos competitor on its way, this time from John Lewis…
Following on from Shop Direct’s acquisition of Woolworths.co.uk, The Hut Group has bought Zavvi to bring it back as an online-only business and Toys R Us has splashed $5 million on the Toys.com domain name
Last year’s changes to its fee structure and efforts to attract established retailers to the site mean that British retailers and other big sellers could account for £1bn of sales on ebay.co.uk over the next five years, the company says
The company has seen a 50% increase in online sales since January 1, says chief executive Mark Newton-Jones, and Woolworths.co.uk will be back online in June
The home shopping giant has opened up its UK websites to overseas customers, launched a German version of its Simply Be catalogue and website and plans launches in North America, Australia and South Africa in 2010
“Grocery online retail has not yet been proven as a profitable model,” says marketing director Michael Bates
A new investigation into multi-channel marketing strategies has revealed most marketers now have clear plans to improve online and offline integration and deliver multi-channel personalisation
It looked for a moment as though Phones 4u had become the latest to make a clear statement that it would match its own online prices in store. Instead, the waters have been muddied still further…
Littlewoods, Great Universal, Empire, Kays, Marshall Ward, Additions — and potentially Woolworths — will all be run from one unified ATG ecommerce platform
A partnership agreement between the UK’s mydeco.com and Furniture.com from the US will see the two companies working together to promote each other to shoppers in each location
Online retailers are redesigning their web sites with a close eye on the bottom line, a new survey from Internet Retailer has found
Thousands of own-label items will be available online from Tesco’s new dedicated clothing website when it launches later this year
The world’s largest internet retailer has posted an 18% increase in sales for the last quarter and has announced it is to start selling non-perishable groceries online in the UK
Rumours are reaching the industry that Gap has, finally, given the go-ahead on a UK transactional website
New research into online selling by small and medium sized retailers has found that ecommerce is now in use by just over a third of retailers and multi-channel retailing has only reached a quarter
The right mix of online and offline strategies is the key to countering the economic downturn, says Hybris CEO Ariel Lüdi
