Online retailers

Brilliant case study of home retail private/flash sale company One Kings Lane by Mashable. Since foundation in 2008, One Kings Lane has become a business with over 4 million members, with expectations of over $200 million in revenue for this year. At launch in April 2009, OKL had exactly 5,000 members. The startup was then [Read more]

Tom Kay, founder of Finisterre, was featured recently in the Daily Telegraph. Ten years ago he was working in London as a chartered surveyor. He realised it wasn’t the life he wanted, so he packed it all in and fled to St Agnes in Cornwall, where he founded Finisterre.

Fun and interesting analysis from Tamar – a measure of an online brand’s popularity and sales performance in one chart. The chart shows: – popularity of the website, clockwise from the top (ASOS comes top, Chemist Direct is 25th – one column shows sales, one shows “love” – the year shows the foundation of the [Read more]

  Historic Royal Palaces’ recently relaunched website was very favourably reviewed in Period Living, September issue. The website – which acts as an online gift shop for the Tower of London and Hampton Court – was described as “attractive and easy-to-use” and a “tempting place to shop.”  

Boden will show turnover up 15% to £232m, and pre-tax profits up 13% at £32.5m, for the year to the end of last December. Taking out the one third of business from the US, that’ll be ca. £160m in the UK. Says the FT: “Famous for its colourful designs, the group has branched out from [Read more]

Experian/IMRG have just published the list of top online retailers for November 2010. We obviousy missed the last few months? Brands/retailers that Screen Pages’ clients seek to emulate or cite as peers – being niche brands selling to ABCs – include: 5 – Next 6 – Marks & Spencer (up 1) 9 – John Lewis [Read more]

Experian/IMRG have just published the list of top online retailers for August 2010. To quote James Roper: “As retail competition intensifies in the online space it is evident that the e-retail market leaders, both pureplay and multi-channel, continue to flourish online with the top 10 showing very little movement since the last quarter. Despite significant [Read more]

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“Does the success of sites such as Net-a-porter signal the end of the high street? If websites can work quickly enough to adapt to the weather, how can traditional stores ever hope to keep up? “There’ll always be a place for good shops because of the social aspects of shopping…Net-a-porter has all the same values [Read more]