Covering the four weeks 2 – 29 August 2020 In August, UK retail sales increased 4.7% on a like-for-like basis from August 2019, when they had decreased 0.8% from the preceding year*. On a total basis, sales increased by 3.9% in August, against a decline of 0.4% in August 2019*, It is above the 3-month […]
A Manchester giftware supplier has strengthened its financial standing with the support of a seven-figure funding package from Lloyds Bank. Based in Oldham, Widdop Bingham specialises in the design, import and export of home and giftware products for household name retailers. Having been established as a manufacturer of fine clocks and watches in 1883, the […]
ProDog has recently been selected as a finalist in Lloyd’s National Business Awards 2020 for The Virgin Atlantic Customer Experience and Loyalty Category, and of course, we’re absolutely over the moon. In fact we’re howling it from the rooftops for so many reasons. Previous winners include fitness sensation Joe Wicks, Timpson CEO James Timpson OBE, […]
Covering the four weeks 2 – 29 August 2020 According to BRC-ShopperTrak data: UK footfall decreased by 34.8% in August, with only a 7.3 percentage point improvement from July. This remains below the longer-term 12-month average decline of 27.6%. Footfall on high streets declined by 41.7% year on year. This was the worst performing location […]
From November, the internet giant Google will apply the full cost of Britain’s new Digital Services Tax (DST) to all ads on UK Google and You Tube as an additional fee to advertisers. The e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero says this move is exactly what it warned about when the idea of the so-called ‘Amazon tax’ […]
Nine out of ten shoppers say free delivery is their number one incentive to spend more, reveals new research conducted by the e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero. Orders with free shipping are also 30% higher on average than those with delivery costs. Amid concerns that the government’s proposed new compulsory delivery charge will remove this key […]
Luxury British shirt-maker Charles Tyrwhitt has agreed a new £26m financing facility with Lloyds Bank as it continues to strengthen its business and seek future opportunities. The package comprises a refinancing of an existing facility along with additional funding. Although Charles Tyrwhitt’s 41 stores have remained closed during the government-imposed lockdown, its market-leading online business […]
There was plenty of good news for Britain’s beleaguered high street retailers in July’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) retail figures released today, says the e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero. The latest statistics reveal sales values rose 4.4% over June, with the amount of sales actually 3% up on February’s pre-pandemic levels. In contrast to clothing […]
Responding to the latest ONS Retail Sales Index figures, which showed a 2.7% increase in overall sales (retail sales excluding fuel: J3L2), Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: “The latest ONS sales results mask a crisis under way in some parts of the retail industry. While food and online have shown […]
Boe House, the owner of Baby Box Shop, has received a £160,000 loan from Rosebud Finance, Lancashire County Council’s investment vehicle delivered by GC Business Finance, to help it create jobs and increase export sales following support from Lancashire’s Access to Finance team. During 2016, husband and wife, Owen and Kim Burrows, began to design […]
