Any fears that Tesco would completely gobble up the Easter egg market after snaffling the entire stock from Woolies (and putting them on sale in December for gawd’s sake), was quashed by the news that sales of Resurrection treats in Selfridges have soared by 80 per cent. The upper crust department store is doing well on [...]
Posts on ‘March 10th, 2009’
Wellworths to open tomorrow
I enjoyed reading Retail Week’s story about the former Woolies manager, Claire Robertson who is about to reopen her store as Wellworths on Wednesday March 11. 34 year old Claire, who worked in Woolworths for 18 years, was in charge of the 6,500 sq ft branch in Dorchester before the chain’s collapse on January 6. In a [...]
L’Oreal and Ebay hit the high court
It will be interesting to see the outcome of L’Oreal’s dispute with Ebay over counterfeit being sold online and the right of companies to distribute their products to a restricted number of markets.
The online counterfeit goods market is worth over £800mn according to global legal services organisation, DLA Piper. The estimated value of fake goods [...]
