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ECMOD Direct Commerce Awards - The Winners!
Last night's Awards ceremony was a glittering celebration of business excellence in the multi-channel sector with over 330 guests attending. Competition was tougher than ever and all finalists should feel proud of their success.
This year's winners are:
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales up to £1.5 million B2C Handpicked Collection
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales up to £5million B2B
Eastern Storage Equipment
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales £1.5 to £5million B2C
Bloom (Scotts & Co)
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales £5 to £10 million B2B International Dance Supplies
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales £5 to £10 million B2C
Naked Wines
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales £10 million+ B2B
Ironmongery Direct
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales £10 – £25 million B2C Notonthehighstreet.com
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales £25 to £75 million B2C
Thompson & Morgan
Best All Round Business or Brand Annual Sales £75 million+ B2C
Laithwaites Wine
Best New Market Entrant and/or Brand launch
Worldstores
Best Catalogue makeover
Original Gift Company (Scotts)
Best Website Makeover
Bombay Duck
Best Online Business
Worldstores
Best International Performance
Findel Education
Green Business
Soar Mill Seeds
Outstanding Customer Service
Dolls House Emporium
Catalogue e-business Readers’ Award
Boden
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Fran Cotton of Cotton Traders for his contribution to the catalogue and home shopping sector. This award has only been bestowed upon six previous winners in the history of the awards. Recipients of the title are Johnnie Boden of Boden, Jim Martin of N Brown Group, the late Michelle Kershaw of Lakeland Limited, Sir David Jones of Next PLC, Tony Laithwaite of Direct Wines and Nigel Swabey of Scotts & Co.
Congratulations to them all from the ECMOD team! For more information please visit www.ecmod360.co.uk/Awards or contact amy@ecmod.com 01271 866112
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ECMOD Direct Commerce Show announces partnership
Now in its 21st year the Show that serves the catalogue, home shopping and multi-channel retailing community has announced that this year's event will feature Data Driven Business Week produced by Rising Media in New York. Comprised of a suite of three seperate conferences - Conversion Conference, eMetrics Marketing Optimisation Summit and Predictive world Analytics - and to include an exhibition area within the main space - DDBW will only add to the already hugely successful ECMOD Direct Commerce Show. For more information please visit www.ecmod360.co.uk or contact stuartmartin@ecmod.com 01271 866112 |
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Marks & Spencer reenters France
Marks & Spencer is making a return to France with a programme of store openings and an online retail presence. Marks & Spencer’s first transactional international website will launch towards the end of 2011, in French and trading in euros. The retailer will also open a store at the Champs-Elysées in the heart of Paris. It had initially exited the French market in 2011.
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New plus-size brand for Freemans Grattan
Home shopping group FGH (Freemans Grattan Holdings) has launched Curvissa, a new clothing brand selling plus-size women’s apparel. The brand trades online at curvissa.co.uk and targets women aged 30 to 55 years. The launch is supported by PR and social-media activity. The company’s other brands include Kaleidoscope, Grattan and Bon Prix.
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Lakeland relaunches website
Lakeland, the kitchenware cataloguer/retailer, relaunched its website last week using the Hybris ecommerce platform, Adobe’s Omniture Merchandising and Site Catalyst analytics, Baynote’s recommendation engine, and Silverpop’s eCRM system for email marketing. The front end was designed by Leeds-based AWA. The project was coordinated by consultancy Javelin. |
New Look moves into m-commerce
Apparel retailer New Look has released a transactional mobile website designed and built by Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). |
Happy Puzzle revamps online marketing
The Happy Puzzle, an online retailer of educational toys, has selected online marketing agency Toinfinity to project-manage the development of its new website and manage future online marketing projects including search marketing, search-engine optimisation, social media, and email marketing. |
Bidders line up for Moonpig
Greeting-cards etailer Moonpig is believed to have received approaches for the business. It is understood that the company is considering bids from private equity firms as well as trade buyers.
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Amazon introduces Checkout by Amazon
Amazon customers can now use their login credentials to check out at other retail websites. The online behemoth has launched Checkout by Amazon, which appears to be similar to Google Checkout. The service allows UK customers to shop through websites offering Checkout by Amazon using their Amazon accounts and preferred delivery address. |
Feather & Black to sell childrenswear
Feather & Black, which launched a Kids furniture catalogue in 2010, has further expanded its children’s range with the launch of nightwear.
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Jaeger extends international reach
Fashion retailer Jaeger has opened up its online shop to seven new markets including Norway, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Singapore. The site now delivers to 36 countries and customers can shop using pounds, euros or US dollars.
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Sales and profits up at Laura Ashley
Total group sales at Laura Ashley rose 6.2 percent to £285 million in the 52 weeks to 29th January 2011. In the UK, retail sales were up 5.3 percent to £256.6 million, with like-for-likes up 5.6 percent during the period. Pretax profit, excluding exceptional gains, almost doubled to £19.3 million, compared with £10.1 million last year. The company’s ecommerce channel now accounts for 12.5 percent of UK retail sales, that’s up from 9 percent last year. |
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Mothercare lifted by international performance
In a trading statement for the full year, nursery products retailer Mothercare said UK sales were flat but group sales were up 3.6 percent largely thanks to a rapid growth in its international business. It now has 894 overseas stores, including 62 in India, and is looking to open “at least 150 new overseas stores” in the current financial year.
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HMV, Dixons issue profit warnings
Electricals retailer Dixons warned that profit for the year would be £85 million—around £20 million lower than expected. At entertainment products retailer HMV, profit is likely to be £30 million—£15 million lower than market guidance.
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April's Feature
The April issue of Catalogue e-business lands on desks this week, and if you’re a subscriber, you can look forward to our special feature on print creative with advice on sourcing copywriters, maximising the potential of your brand, and the importance of high quality images. In addition, we’ll also look at recruiting in sync with your business’s culture, and cast a spotlight on niche marketing.
Subscribers can expect:
• Making the most of your brand—harnessing a brand strategy to drive your business forward market
• Finding the words—sourcing copy for catalogues and websites
• A word about images—quality imagery is critical to effective catalogue creative
• Ideas to steal—niche marketing tactics you can try today
• Catalogue review—a few adjustments could have a big impact on the design and pace of the Saltwater catalogue
But unless you subscribe, you won’t be able to read those articles online. Call us today to set up your 12-month subscription and gain full access to our website as well as a year’s worth of issues. Simply email subs@catalog-biz.com or call 01271 866221, or visit our website for more information.
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