Furniture retail is a global $300+ billion industry, but only 3% of sales take place online. Visualization specialist Cylindo.com is releasing a solution set to eliminate the dismal online conversion rates typical for online furniture ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Furniture Retail
The basket value of online clothes shoppers who use a virtual fitting room while making their purchase is an average of 7% higher than shoppers who don’t, more than offsetting the general 1% decrease in average basket values ...
Retail-ready packaging (RRP) provider Polymer Logistics has introduced new Wood Effect plastic crate. The new crate is said to use the active lock system that enables store colleagues to fold away the crates properly using the ...
Tags: Polymer Logistics, Wood Effect
The ToyNews Retail Advisory Board gives its views on the first major holiday of this year "Easter is the second biggest selling time behind Christmas," according to some of the UK's leading toy retailers. Traditionally a gifting period ...
Tags: Toys, Easter Toys
Retailers champion the global board game festival for driving footfall and boosting sales. Independent toy, collectible and comic stores across the UK are preparing for an onslaught of gaming fans this weekend, as International Tabletop ...
Tags: board game, Toys
Spring Fair International 2014, an i2i Events Group exhibition, opened its doors on February 2 2014 at The NEC, Birmingham, welcoming over 66,500 retail buyers, including more than 5,250 from overseas, a 2 per cent increase on last ...
Indie reports uplift in dress up and accessories sales through the annual event. If you have spotted a gaggle of Harry Potters at the local toy shop or a group of Peter Pans skipping through the town centre, there's no need to panic, it's ...
Tags: Toys
Woolworths has announced a profit increase for the first half Supermarket group Woolworths has announced a net profit after tax for the first half of the 2014 financial year of $1,321.7 million, up 14.5 per cent on the same period in the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Having worked with more than 100 component companies, many developing new innovations in semiconductors and related electronics, I’veVolumetric Efficiency experienced many unique situations that have created opportunities and ...
Tags: Product Launch, Electronics
February 10, 2014 Sophie Langley Retail food sales and manufacturing growth strengthening in Australia Year-on-year growth in retail food sales is at its strongest since early 2010, according to a report from food manufacturing industry ...
Tags: Manufacturing Growth, Food Sales, CHEP, AFGC
The 12th edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index shows year-on-year growth in retail sales at its strongest since early 2010. The index was 4.2 per cent higher in December 2013 compared with December 2012, up from an increase of 1.9 per ...
Tags: AFGC, ABS, retail environment, retailer
This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
Tags: Eurozone Financial Services, Business Lending, Financial Services
Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement worth around USD 1.2 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. In addition, the ...
Tags: EMGS, Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA, multi-client data library
Global Blue, the international retail tourism experts, report that total international tax free spend has surged up 21% to date this year with globe shoppers from South East Asian driving the growth. Thai spend in particular is up a massive ...
Tags: Global Blue, Tourist
From the end of March 2014, the Feed-in-Tariff will only be available for solar systems that meet the new rigorous demands of MCS 012. To date, only five products have received certification and three of the certificates have been issued to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Solar