Marketing
This coverage explores marketing strategy and innovation across the UK retail industry — from brand campaigns and customer engagement to data-driven advertising and omnichannel communication. Retail Sector reports on retailer marketing performance, creative partnerships, loyalty schemes, and digital transformation shaping how brands connect with consumers. Coverage includes insights into retail media networks, influencer collaborations, social commerce, and the evolving use of AI and analytics in campaign optimisation. For retail professionals, this category offers expert intelligence on how effective marketing drives sales, brand value, and competitive advantage in a dynamic retail environment.
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Nov- 2022 -21 NovemberFeatures
How Lightning 50 winner Piglet in Bed is getting the bedding business just right
It was in 2017 that Founder of Piglet in Bed, Jessica Mason, launched her online bedding business with only a Shopify website and three colours of linen bedding and pillowcases. In a handful of years the British-born brand has taken off, providing a refreshing wake-up call to the bedding industry…
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17 NovemberClothing & Shoes
Burberry targets 50% increase in sales with new strategy
Burberry has revealed a new long-term strategy to drive revenue growth and acceleration, which will aim to see the group’s sales of leather goods, shoes and women’s ready-to-wear, as well as outerwear and accessories grow by 50%. According to the luxury fashion label, it plans to convert all of its…
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16 NovemberComment
Consumers are feeling the pinch – but so are retailers. Can Black Friday even happen this year?
Black Friday traditionally marks the start of the festive shopping season, with big ticket promotions that seem to get bigger every year. Black Friday is now fast approaching, and many retailers are reassessing their strategies for this year’s event in light of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. The cost-of-living crisis is…
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16 NovemberAdvice
Retail faces multiple challenges – A key one is fixing the data layer
As the UK consumer battles rising inflation, interest rates, scary heating bills and even considering back-up generators to avoid potential power cuts, retailers have needed to consistently up their games to maintain customer loyalty. On the supply side, the latest uncertainties are an unwelcome addition to the disruption from…
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3 NovemberHigh Street
Footfall gap from 2019 narrows in October to -9.8%
The gap in footfall from 2019 narrowed in October to -9.8% from -12.6% in September and -13.2% in August, according to the latest figures from Springboard. Overall it found the footfall was -10.5% in high streets, -14.7% in shopping centres and -3.3% in retail parks. Meanwhile, the uplift in footfall…
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Oct- 2022 -27 OctoberSupermarkets
Asda to trial in-store hearing service in UK first
Asda will be the first UK supermarket to offer an in-store hearing service after announcing that it will partner with Amplifon, who will provide hearing services in three of its stores. Based in the opticians at Asda Altrincham, Harrogate and Long Eaton stores, during the trial, Amplifon will be providing…
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27 OctoberSponsored Articles
How integrated WMS technology negates errors and drives efficiency for retailers
Customer expectation is continually increasing, with product availability, transparency around order progress, and speed of delivery being high on their agenda. As a result, many businesses have turned to technology to tackle pain points within distribution processes and to increase customer satisfaction; having a unified omni-channel commerce platform that provides…
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20 OctoberOnline & Digital
Naked Wines axes roles in plan to ‘pivot to profit’
Naked Wines has made around 6% of its workforce redundant as part of a raft of measures to help the business “pivot to profit” and reset its cost base after weaker demand hit its profitability. It comes after investment into inventory spending and adding to its cost base did not…
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19 OctoberPeople Moves
N Brown chief brand officer exits amid company shakeup
N Brown Group’s chief brand officer, Kenyatte Nelson, has left the company as part of a wider streamlining of the business. As first reported by Drapers, the group said that a core tenet of its strategy is the simplification of the business, and the executive team is no exception. As…
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18 OctoberFeatures
Beyond retail: 4 ways to unlock direct-to-consumer relationships
CPG and FMCG brands — that is, Consumer Packed Goods and Fast Moving Consumer Goods, respectively — are fortunate to have huge amounts of data at their disposal. However, sorting through what’s relevant and compliant and then unifying it into a single source of truth can be a mammoth task.…
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