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Continued ecommerce growth pushes New Look back into post-CVA profit

04 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

Ecommerce sales at troubled fashion retailer New Look have seen strong growth in Q1 of its latest financial year and helping pull the company to a £108m profit

IKEA is offering £35 in free clean electricity to UK households that switch to green energy

04 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

IKEA UK is partnering with green energy experts Big Clean Switch to offer £35 of free green energy to every British home if they switch to clean energy as the retailer continues its sustainability push

Big Clean Switch Ikea Industry Sustainability

GameStop gets a boost as Twitter experiments with shoppable tweets

04 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

US online and physical games retailer GameStop is one of a number large retailers taking part in a trial that sees Twitter turning its platform on to ecommerce

GameStop Industry Mobile Selling Social Commerce Twitter

Voice-assistant commerce could hit $19bn, but only if platforms open up to third parties

04 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

Ecommerce transactions carried out using voice assistants are set to hit $19.4bn by 2023, rising from $4.6bn billion in 2021, but only if check-out process can be streamlined and the big platforms open up to third party retailers

Amazon Apple Google Mobile voice commerce

Millennials drive international, cross-border D2C ecommerce as pandemic shopping habits stick worldwide

04 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

More than half of millennials have purchased goods directly from international brands in the past six months, building on shopping habit that started in lockdown

Brands Customer D2C Growth 2000 Growth 3000 Europe International millenials

57% of shoppers say they want digital engagement in the aisle to improve purchasing decisions

04 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

UK shoppers are increasingly demanding more digital information at the shelf edge to improve in-store shopping experiences and help inform their buying decisions

converstion CX Location Mobile shelf edge Strategy & Innovation Strategy and Innovation Technology

“Never the same again” - Stephen Langford of Marks and Spencer | RetailCraft recap

03 Aug 2021by Scarlette Isaac

Covid-19 Customer Industry Resilience Strategy and Innovation Technology

48% growth in ecommerce sales leads Joules to 4.3% growth

03 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

Ecommerce sales at fashion and lifestyle brand Joules have grown 48% to £122m for the year to 30 May, driving overall company revenues up by 4.3%

fashion Industry Joules

INTERVIEW Stuart McClure of Love the Sales on the importance of getting the price right

03 Aug 2021by Chloe Rigby

’We encourage brands to consider smarter discounting,’ says McClure in this extract from the RetailX Brands and Marketplaces 2021 report

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UK shoppers have started to think about Christmas shopping – are you ready?

03 Aug 2021by Paul Skeldon

As many as a quarter (25%) of UK shoppers that celebrate Christmas say they will have started thinking about Christmas shopping before the end of August, says eBay, as they tentatively hope for a more normal festive season than last year.

Growth 2000 Peak

Media, Games and Television 2021 in discussion - Webinar

2021 EU Top500 Brand Index Webinar: Who are Europe's best D2C Brands? - Webinar

EDITORIAL New Look back in profit, IKEA giving away power, Twitter gets shoppable and voice commerce set to take off

EDITORIAL Joules perky results, Amazon’s fine and how Christmas shopping has started already

GUEST COMMENT Intelligent automation and organic search - preserving your brand in the AI era

Coming Soon: RetailX European Top1000 2021

Continued ecommerce growth pushes New Look back into post-CVA profit

IKEA is offering £35 in free clean electricity to UK households that switch to green energy

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Continued ecommerce growth pushes New Look back into post-CVA profit

IKEA is offering £35 in free clean electricity to UK households that switch to green energy

GameStop gets a boost as Twitter experiments with shoppable tweets

Voice-assistant commerce could hit $19bn, but only if platforms open up to third parties

Millennials drive international, cross-border D2C ecommerce as pandemic shopping habits stick worldwide

57% of shoppers say they want digital engagement in the aisle to improve purchasing decisions

“Never the same again” - Stephen Langford of Marks and Spencer | RetailCraft recap

48% growth in ecommerce sales leads Joules to 4.3% growth

INTERVIEW Stuart McClure of Love the Sales on the importance of getting the price right

UK shoppers have started to think about Christmas shopping – are you ready?

Group orders and in-car collection: how Domino’s revamp its app for the end of lockdown

Warnings of delays to home deliveries and supermarket shortages as HGV driver shortages bite

74% of European shoppers have no intention of scaling back online shopping, study finds

Second quarter sales at B&Q and Screwfix owner Kingfisher fall back across channels compared to pandemic growth

UK brands losing EU customers post-Brexit – even as direct sales rise post-Covid: study

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