UK Business News

Despite the weather doing its best to keep us away from the high street, the retail sector is still holding its own in the run up to Christmas, but our attitudes as purchasers are changing rapidly and the lure of online shopping from the comfort of our own homes is proving too much to resist.
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Despite a recent report from Google suggesting that the UK internet economy is worth £100 billion annually, research from the Direct Marketing association (DMA) reveals that one in five UK companies are losing out on business through poor customer service, failing to respond to online customer enquiries.
The DMA research team conducted their research by posing [...]

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There is some interesting reading this week regarding the UK alcoholic drinks industry, with reports that sales of both wine and real ale are booming despite or maybe because of the current economic situation.
The specialist drinks industry magazine Drink Business carried out a study into the hitherto little researched market of virtual wine sales in [...]

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“In 10 years’ time we’ll still be on the High Street, but we’ll be big online too.” – Clinton Lewin

High street greeting card retailer Clinton Cards has announced pre tax profits for the year of £24.1million, up from £22million a year ago. Chief executive Clinton Lewin also revealed plans to launch an online card service [...]

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Shop Direct, the company that bought the famous Woolworths brand name in February have said that they have had over one million visitors to the newly launched woolworths.co.uk online shopping site during it’s first week of trading.
Although no actual sales figures have been given the company says that in the first week consumers had ordered [...]

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