All Very Group articles – Page 31
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NewsOnline retailers welcome postcode system for Republic of Ireland
Retailers have welcomed the revival of plans to introduce a national postcode system in the Republic of Ireland and believe the move should help catalogue and online businesses operate efficiently there.
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NewsAd campaign to lift Woolworths profile
Home shopping giant Shop Direct Group is to launch an ad campaign to promote the Woolworths online brand in the run-up to Christmas, one year after the famous high street chain collapsed.
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NewsShop Direct Group sales up 7.4%
Shop Direct Group reported group sales up 7.4% to £1.7bn for its financial year ending April 30, but is taking a cautious view of consumer debt in the year ahead.
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NewsShop Direct brings in chief to run financial services arm
Home shopping group Shop Direct has brought in Neil Chandler in a newly created role of chief executive of its financial services arm.
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NewsLittlewoods launches European website to tap into expat market
Shop Direct Group is gunning to grow its overseas business to 10% of its total sales after it launched its first international Littlewoods site last week.
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NewsLittlewoods launches in Europe
Home shopping giant Shop Direct Group today launched Littlewoodseurope.com, targeted at customers in France, Germany, Spain and Portugal.
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AnalysisRetailers shaking up contact centres
Whether it’s headcount cuts, outsourcing or in-sourcing, retailers are shaking up their contact centres in line with the changing face of home shopping. Joanna Perry asks what the future holds
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NewsShop Direct Group trading director exits
Shop Direct Group’s trading director David Inglis has left the business.
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AnalysisTop 50 retailers: Retail’s premier league
It’s 18 months since Retail Week’s last look at the UK’s top retailers by sales and margins and much has changed in that time. Retail Knowledge Bank senior partner Robert Clark reports
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AnalysisMark Newton-Jones applies his talents to Woolworths relaunch online
The Shop Direct Group chief has proved himself to be an enthusiastic moderniser, so can he work his magic with this week’s Woolworths relaunch online? By Lisa Berwin
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NewsReborn Woolworths in line for profit within a year
Shop Direct Group this week resurrected Woolworths as an e-tailer and vowed to make the venture profitable in its first year of trading.
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NewsShop Direct Group unveils Woolworths.co.uk
Shop Direct Group has today launched the much-anticipated Woolworths as an online retailer.
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NewsLittlewoods Direct to undergo Very rebrand
Shop Direct Group is to rebrand Littlewoods Direct as it seeks to develop its appeal to a younger online customer base.
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AnalysisRetail Week Technology Awards: the winners
In its first year rebranded as the Retail Week Technology Awards, we are delighted to announce the winners, who between them have shown how technology can be used for maximum impact across all operational areas of a retail business.
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New boss for Woolworths online shop
Shop Direct Group has brought in a new boss for its online Woolworths store which launches this summer.
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NewsWoolworths offers online Easter egg competition for customers
Woolworths has launched a virtual Easter egg hunt online for its customers who are unable to buy their traditional Easter eggs from the collapsed chain.Woolworths, which will be relaunched this summer as an online shop by Shop Direct Group, this week launched a competition on a specially launched site, Woolieswonderland.co.ukCustomers ...
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Shop Direct Group gets online surge from demise of high street rivals
Shop Direct Group has said that rising online sales and the demise of high street rivals has boosted its e-tail business.
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Woolworths online rebirth to tap entertainment
Woolworths is to be reborn as a serious player in the online entertainment market under the ownership of Shop Direct.
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Woolworths bought by Shop Direct Group
Woolworths will be relaunched as an online store after the brand was bought by Shop Direct Group owners the Barclay brothers.