Marketing
This coverage explores marketing strategy and innovation across the UK retail industry โ 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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Jun- 2022 -21 JunePeople Moves
Gymshark appoints new vice president of marketing
Gymshark, the fitness community and apparel brand, has announced Carly OโBrien as its new vice president of marketing. OโBrien joins after three years as chief marketing officer of The Very Group, where she oversaw a team of over 200 people that were responsible for all marketing, adapting to shifting business…
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21 JuneEconomy
Quarter of UK retailers four weeks from collapse, survey finds
More than a quarter of UK retailers are just four weeks away from going bust due to supply chain issues, according to a Brightpearl survey. The results of the survey of 500 UK retailers, found that 85% of retailer businesses have been hit by supply chain issues in the last…
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17 JunePeople Moves
TDR snaps up eBay’s head of Europe
Asda owner TDR Capital has reportedly snapped up eBays head of Europe to become a partner at the firm from this Autumn.ย According to Retail Week, Rob Hatrell is set to take up the position at the Big Four grocer owner following three years of leading the online retail marketplaceโs…
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9 JuneElectrical
AO to close German business amid โdeterioratingโ outlook
AO World plc (AO), the online electricals retailer, has decided to close its German business due to the โcontinuing deteriorationโ in the outlook for the German arm, as well as the board’s responsibilities to shareholders and other stakeholders. The business will continue to trade for a brief period to facilitate…
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8 JuneDIY
Safestyle welcomes 6.7% revenue growth
Safestyle UK plc, the UK-focused retailer and manufacturer of PVCu replacement windows and doors for the homeowner market, has welcomed โrobustโ trading in the first four months of the year, with revenue up by 6.7%. Despite a cyber attack in the first quarter of the year, by the end of…
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6 JuneComment
How headless commerce answers many retail tech issues
Work in online for any time, and you start to get used to bracing for the next big Googleโs core algorithm change. The latest one, Core Web Vitals, was bigger than most, featuring prominently in on marketeersโ lives since last year for mobile, and earlier this year for desktop. As…
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May- 2022 -24 MayClothing & Shoes
Abercrombie & Fitch lowers forecast amid Q1 loss
Abercrombie and Fitch has lowered its forecast for 2022 with expectations for net sales to be flat to up 2% from $3.7bn (ยฃ2.95bn) in 2021, down from previous expectations of up 2%-4%, due to the impact from foreign currency and an assumed inflationary impact on consumer demand. Net sales are…
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17 MayDIY
Victorian Plumbing H1 profits fall to ยฃ2.7m
Victorian Plumbing Group has revealed its operating profit for the first half of the year has fallen 80% YOY to ยฃ2.7m. The online bathroom retailer also revealed revenues for the period were down 5% year-on-year to ยฃ133.9m (H1 2021: ยฃ140.7m), lapping a โtough comparable periodโ resulting from market outperformance during…
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16 MayNews
SEO and PPC: improving performance and balance
As retail brands spend more time, focus and resource online, itโs becoming increasingly important to avoid cannibalisation and find the right balance between search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) ads. Both remain hugely important, of course, with SEO helping brands take market share away from competitors by ranking them…
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16 MayOnline & Digital
Brightpearl launches โGrowth Hackingโ podcast for online retailersย
Bristol, UK, and Austin, Texas-based tech firm, Brightpearl, is launching its first podcast, the โLightning 50 E-Commerce Growth Hackingโ show. Hosted by industry expert Caroline Baldwin, the podcast is a weekly 15-minute bitesize show in which Baldwin interviews retail luminaries from high growth companies. Each guest on the show has…
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