Archive for January 2013
Aldi edges out Spar (UK) as top UK drinks retail website
Brought to you by Retailinsider.com and Cookie Reports The cat and mouse battle between Aldi and Spar (UK) continued at the head of the table of the UK’s Top 25 leading drinks retailing websites, with the German supermarket taking the prime spot this month with a particularly impressive score. The business moved up two places…
Read MoreCall centres – from dog-end to top-dog
Last year while attending an e-commerce exhibition in London, Retalinsider.com mistakenly ventured into the wrong hall and into the midst of a call centre expo. Call centres: take your pick. Not wishing to stay too long in the dog end of the retail industry a hasty retreat ensued. The poor reputation of call centres has…
Read MoreRetail Species – The Personal Shopper
The Person: Andrea Talha The Company: Style Liberation The Job Title: Personal Shopper (and founder of Style Liberation) The Story: Fashion is in the family and Andi Talha has been doing this ever since she can remember. Family members got her to buy their clothes when she was a teen. Boyfriends were always comprehensively styled.…
Read MoreMovers & Shakers Q&A with David Hathiramani
Brought to you by Retailinsider.com and K3 Retail David Hathiramani, co-founder of A Suit That Fits 1. What is the greatest opportunity for your business? The opportunity we see for the business is the same as the one we saw when we started – to revolutionise the bespoke tailoring industry and bring it onto the…
Read MoreInnovative Retailer – Look Mum No Hands!
Brought to you by Retailinsider.com and PCMS The Name: Look Mum No Hands! The Place: Old Street, London EC1 The Story: Back at junior school Matt Harper and Lewin Chalkley… Matt Harper No, seriously. You can’t start a business story at junior school. I was only going to say that two of the three founders…
Read MoreGuest slot from Ajaz Ahmed – a letter to Argos
Ajaz Ahmed founded the industry-changing Freeserve and is currently running Legal365. He also likes to tell it like it is as you will see over a short series of columns: A little while back a business story appeared on BBC Breakfast about Argos announcing that its profits had collapsed and that they had hired…
Read MoreMovers & Shakers Q&A with Martin Newman
Brought to you by Retailinsider.com and K3 Retail Martin Newman, CEO, Practicology 1. What is the greatest opportunity for your business? Everything comes down to data and the insight that can be derived from it. We all want to make fact-based decisions. So we’re making quite a big play on that moving forward and we’re…
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