By Staff on January 10, 2013
There’ll be extra muffins at Tesco Towers in Cheshunt this morning as the UK’s biggest retailer posted a 1.8 per cent sales gain in the six weeks to January 5, including the key Christmas period. The figures flatter somewhat as they compare with a disastrous 2.3 per cent sales decline in the same period last [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged aldi, Asda, Chris Bush, christmas sales, fresh & easy, Morrisons, online sales, Philip Clarke, Sainsburys, Tesco, wieden+kennedy
By Stuart Smith on March 31, 2012
Unmistakable stress signs among competitors appear to herald a tectonic shift in the smartphone sector in favour of Apple. One rival RIM – maker of Blackberry – has retired hurt from the consumer ring. Another, Apple’s principal adversary in the field, is having to carefully rethink its ‘open-door’ strategy. No surprise, perhaps, that the cracks [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged android, apple, BlackBerry, google, htc, iPad, Jim Balsillie, kindle fire, nexus one, online sales, rim, smartphones, tablets, Thosten Heins
By Angie Dean on February 15, 2011
Marc Bolland, now helming Mars & Spencer, turned away from online during his spell as CEO of supermarket group Morrisons (he probably noticed that only Tesco out of his rivals made money out of it) but his succesor Dalton Philips is having none of that. He’s just splashed out £70m to buy children’s clothes website [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Dalton Philips, George Davies, kiddicare, Marc Bolland, Morrisons, Ocado, online sales, Tesco, Waitrose
By Angie Dean on February 8, 2011
During his time as CEO of UK supermarket chain Morrisons Marc Bolland, now CEO of Marks & Spencer, ignored the internet, preferring to concentrate on plugging Morrisons fresh food and its ‘market street’ store layouts. But now as the highly-remunerated boss of the UK’s biggest non-supermarket retailer he has to do something predecessor Sit Stuart [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged Laura Wade-Gery, Marc Bolland, marks & spencer, Morrisons, online sales, Philip Clarke, Sir Stuart Rose, Tesco
By Stephen Foster on January 25, 2011
New ITV marketing boss Fru Hazlitt has been telling the Financial Times (registration required) how she intends to “wean” ITV away from its reliance on 30-second commercials (“hideously cyclical”) and make it the UK’s pre-eminent “marketing platform.” This apparently means boosting its online offer, securing partnerships with the likes of Facebook and encouraging more advertiser-funded [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged advertiser funded programming, facebook, financial times, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, gcap, Kelly Williams, myspace, online sales, Simon Daglish
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