Top Tips For Finding Your Niche
Giles English, Co-Founder of Bremont Watch Company, provides seven top tips for niche businesses looking for global market success. Niche markets are extremely valuable, if sometimes tricky areas in which…
UK Mail Group Strains To Cope With Ex-City Link Volumes
The mail and parcel carrier UK Mail Group has warned that its costs have been hit by taking on too many parcels in the wake of the collapse of rivals…
Aldi To Launch UK Online Store
German discount grocer is considering the launch of an online store in Britain, according to reports. While the retailer has offered the online delivery service of alcoholic beverages in Australia…
The E-commerce Boom
The emergence of e-commerce, with its demands for fast and flexible customer service, has had a major impact on most businesses. European online retail sales are expected to grow at…
Why is the logistics market still focusing solely on revenue?
By Laurence Armiger, Director, Zizo The simple answer is that it is difficult. It is however achievable when organisations change from having very little focus on data, to being rifle-focused…
New Fulfilment Portal Offers Advanced Data Mining for e-Retailers
A major upgrade to its cloud-based software platform – including a completely new interface and major functionality improvements – has been implemented by e-retail fulfilment specialists James and James. The…
eBay Said Postage Costs, Delivery Issues Hampering SME Growth
E-commerce giant eBay has said small online businesses in the UK believe postage costs and delivery issues will be the major limiting factor to their growth this year. The firm…
Shell Sells A Quarter Of UK Petrol Stations
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell around 185 petrol stations in the UK to two forecourt operators. The number is a quarter of Shell’s portfolio and is part of…
Like-for-like retail sales up 3.2% in March
Retail sales increased by 3.2% in March on a like-for-like basis compared to the same month last year. On a total basis sales were up by 4.7%. Figures published in…
Poundland Sales Pass £1bn For First Time
Poundland has reported that its full year revenues topped £1 billion for the first time after a “solid” fourth quarter of sales growth. In the 13 weeks to 29 March,…