Morrisons is starting a search for the best local food producers who can help to feed the nation, as a new report calls for the UK to be more self-sufficient in food production and new consumer research shows an increasing appetite from ...
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Adventurous new food brand, Outlanddish, is bringing its meat range to UK supermarket shelves this month. The Outlanddish range is the brainchild of Dundee-based entrepreneur Christian Nissen who made venison mainstream with the launch of ...
Tags: Outlanddish, supermarket shelves
UK shoppers’ ongoing love for the high street experience will keep town centre shopping alive, according to a new report launched today. Online Vs Instore by shopper behavior experts The Market Creative found that 75% of consumers ...
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Cherokee Global Brands, a global marketer of style-focused lifestyle brands, has entered into a new license agreement with Argos, a subsidiary of Home Retail Group plc, to launch a broad family-assortment of Cherokee lifestyle products ...
Seven-year old company has established itself as the number one premium RC brand in the US. US toy firm Propel RC landed in the UK in October, and the company has told ToyNews that the UK is key to its international growth plans. The ...
Tags: customer service, premium products, Toys
The annual 2014 Specsavers everywoman in Retail Ambassadors have recently been announced at a ceremony in central London attended by Dame Mary Perkins and several hundred leading business figures representing over 50 retail brands. Twelve ...
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BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor reports global results for Q1 2014 depicting increase in the total volume of overseas consumers searching for UK apparel retailers. BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor Q1 2014 results -Q1 2014 experienced a ...
Tags: UK Apparel, Apparel, Textile
Helen Dickinson, British Retail Consortium Director General, said: "More shoppers were out and about in January, with a solid 1.6 per cent in overall footfall across the country. It’s good news for retailers and it helps to explain ...
Tags: UK Retailers, Footfalls
The BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor has repoted that footfall in January was 1.6% higher than a year ago, up on the 2.4% fall in December – the best footfall performance since December 2011. High streets reported the only fall – ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Robert Opie, founder, Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising No. Most people are very brand loyal and buy the product because they like it. People go for the one they trust unless there's a big special offer and they're tempted to ...
WeSEE, advertising and visual classification company, reveals research around the use of video in the online shopping journey. Findings include that the majority of consumers (56%) would consider using ‘shopable videos’ to make ...
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Some 83% of UK consumers want method of production labelling, which clearly identifies the farm system used to produce the food, extended to meat and dairy products. Almost as many, 79%, said farm animal welfare was important when deciding ...
Gift cards, vouchers and alternative payment methods on the increase. UK shoppers did 9.7 per cent less of their shopping with cash in 2012 compared to the previous year. Paying with cash is still the most popular choice for customers ...
Over 604 items shwopped a minute as the nation Spring Clean their wardrobes to support Oxfam and Marks & Spencer (M&S) One Day Wardrobe Clear Out Shwopping event -435,000 items shwopped as record numbers give a new life to old clothes in ...
Tags: UK Shoppers, Apparel
Almost half of all UK shoppers (42 per cent) purchase toys from supermarkets, a new survey has found. Eight million consumers (16 per cent) say they are now using supermarkets as ‘one-stop shops’ by purchasing all their ...
Tags: Toys, Toys Industry