UK retail sales for May underline the growing importance of online sales, which “saved retailers’ bacon”, last month, according to consultancy firm KPMG. Online sales 'saved retailers' bacon' in May, said KPMG ...
Tags: British Retail Consortium Sales Monitor, Online sales, KPMG
July activities aim to raise awareness of local businesses including toy retailers. Indie toy store owners are being encouraged to take part in Independent Retailer Month in July. Retail champion Clare Rayner is urging stores to get ...
Tags: independent retailer month, Toys, Stores
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 ...
Andrea Martinez-Inchausti, assistant food director, British Retail Consortium Yes. While the BRC supports aims to update and simplify food labelling legislation, the new provisions introducing a minimum font size complicate matters. Many ...
Fundamental changes in the UK retail industry as customers embrace new technology and new ways to shop are producing major changes in the relative importance of different payment methods. Customers did 10 per cent less of their shopping ...
Tags: Cash Payment, Retail Stores
Metal paint cans have been awarded an On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) ‘widely recycled’ label The OPRL scheme was launched in March 2009 in response to research that identified a need to communicate better with consumers ...
Tags: Cans, Metal Paint Cans, OPRL, Label
UK retail sales values were down 2.2% on a like-for-like basis from April 2012, when they had declined 3.3% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were down 0.6%, against a 1.0% decline in April 2012. Growth was negatively ...
Tags: Apparel, Apparel Industry
The new Groceries Code Adjudicator, tasked with policing the multiple retailers, has pledged to clean up illegal “kickback” practices, whereby suppliers are forced to use third-party suppliers favoured by the supermarkets, ...
Retail searches made by customers using tablet devices in Q1 have risen 198% year-on-year. Search volumes on smartphone devices rose 66 per cent. Total retail search volumes grew 16 per cent compared to the same period last year. ...
Tags: Toys, smartphone
A national campaign to establish a ‘Made in Britain’ logo that can be applied to all products manufactured in the UK is gathering force. Eat the flag: Made in Britain aims to boost the sale of British goods Since it was ...
Tags: Food firms, Food, food industry
The Consumer Attitudes to Waste and Food Packaging study has been commissioned by Wrap and a group of packaging, retail and food associations as part of the new Fresher for Longer campaign, which aims to educate consumers on how packaging ...
Tags: food packaging, drink packaging, packaging
UK like-for-like retail sales rose 2.7 per cent in February. On a total basis, sales were up 4.4 per cent, against a 2.3 per cent rise in February 2012. Excluding "distortions" caused by the timing of Easter in previous years, that's the ...
Tags: retail sector, retail, retail sales
UL DQS Inc., one of the leading certification bodies for management systems in the world, is offering two-day training classes on British Retail Consortium (BRC) IoP for Packaging. Classes will be held at UL University facilities in ...
Tags: Food Packaging Standard, Training, Packaging
The horsemeat scandal has caught big retailers “with the their underwear down” and it was still too early to predict the full implications of the crisis, a leading food policy commentator has told FoodManufacture.co.uk. ...
Tags: horsemeat scandal, food policy commentator, Supermarkets
Results from the first set of UK tests on beef products for horsemeat have in the main cleared the country's retailers. Products from Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, The Co-operative Group and Iceland Foods tested negative for traces of ...
Tags: UK FSA, Horsemeat, Test Results