Ecommerce Club Blog

6th April 2016

Marketing tech firm Persado has secured a $30 million Series C financing led by Goldman Sachs and previous investors include both Bain Capital Ventures, Start Vest partners and American Express.

6th April 2016

Barclays has confirmed that its customers will be able to use Apple Pay from today, almost nine months after the launch of the mobile payment service. Barclays, which has been pushing its own payment solutions, is the last major UK bank to join the Apple Pay system.

5th April 2016

Snapchat has launched Snapcode, a feature that brands can use to give users exclusive content when they are in store.

5th April 2016

The deal will see analysis of Dunnhumby data on 17 million UK shoppers matched with Facebook’s 37 million monthly users, allowing FMCG brands to accurately measure the effectiveness of Facebook campaigns – specifically whether they drove in-store and online sales.

1st April 2016

Sainsbury’s has won a bid battle for Argos following the announcement from the Home Retail Group board that it had unanimously agreed at £1.4 billion offer.

28th March 2016

At the Ecommerce Club’s latest Working Lunch London on 22nd March, we were lucky enough to hear from Adrian Moss at Monetate about the next step in personalisation, Customer Experience Marketing.

24th March 2016

Kingfisher reported its results with news that Screwfix had hit £1 billion in turnover, and that the company could provide the model for a transformation for the business as a whole.

23rd March 2016

Game Digital is to put multichannel retailing at the heart of its strategy as it reported falling first-half sales and profits amid “challenging” trading conditions in the UK video games market. While overall sales were down, online traffic grew by 5.7 per cent year-on-year and sales of digital content were up by almost 10 per cent.

23rd March 2016

DFS reported ecommerce growth of 17.7 per cent after a first half in which it focused on a strategy to grow by broadening its appeal, extending its UK presence and developing its omnichannel proposition.

23rd March 2016

Laura Ashley has reported online sales passed the £50 million milestone in its latest financial year.

22nd March 2016

According to parent company Majestic Wine the milestone was thanks to a focus on social distribution to provide ‘angel’ customers with exclusive access to quality wine, backed up by customer service.

22nd March 2016

immy Choo has said it is preparing to roll out omnichannel systems throughout its business in the second half of its current year, as it reported revenue growth of 7.2 per cent on a constant currency basis.