Shoppers made a slightly smaller proportion of their retail purchases online as they started to emerge from lockdown in March, the latest official figures suggest
This month Elevate Brands bought its 20th Amazon marketplace seller, and it’s targeting a stable of 100 by the end of next year, and a turnover of $150m this year - while it prepares to open a European office in London. It’s a fast pace of growth for a business that started life as an Amazon seller as recently as 2016
Gear4music says sales grew by almost a third over a ’transformational’ year and it expects to report record profits following strong demand in lockdown. Now it is laying the foundations for future online and European growth
European online fashion and lifestyle platform Zalando has launched a new experience in the fashion store enabling customers to browse the more sustainable fashion assortment according to the values they care about
Maserati, FitBit, Bosch, Sage, Lutron and Facebook are all taking part in a trial of a new immersive shopper experience set to go live at Westfield London
As consumers hit the shops after months of closure, shopper footfall on the High Street increased +178%, with an estimated £1.6bn spent in-store on the first weekend of trading. However, ecommerce revenues also saw a rise, up +2.5% week-on-week
In a drive to help consumers make sustainability-based choices, payment processing company Klarna has launched CO2 insights for all shopping purchases as part of its 1% pledge, involving the donation of $10m to initiatives supporting planet health.