As the UK basks in lovely Spring sunshine the timing couldn’t be better for West End Home Week, which this week sees retailers throughout London’s West End enticing shoppers with an array of special events and promotions.
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2,000 ‘Toxic Sofa’ victims to be compensated
2,000 consumers affected by the notorious ‘Toxic Sofa’ saga will be receiving up to £20 million in compensation from a variety of high street retail chains, after receiving chemical burns from their sofas.
Greenpeace step up with their latest viral campaign against Nestlé’s Kit Kat
Watch the video below for a gruesome attack by Greenpeace on Nestle.
It’s a great example of the action group stepping up with their digital offering. Greenpeace proving that if you want to make a point you need to make it digitally as this has long been considered an integral channel in the marketing mix. Digital [...]
Affordable Art Fair, determined to make it!
I’m determined to make it to the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea Park (11-14 March), it’s shocking really that I haven’t been before as I live no live less than 20 minutes walk from the place. And I love art, especially the affordable sort! With prices ranging from £50 - £3k I’ll definitely be at [...]
Watch out ASOS, John Lewis report record online sales
John Lewis has reported record sales in it’s newly launched online clothing sector. Online sales for clothing have surpassed expectations with the retailer now expecting to reach its self set target of £8.5m by the early December instead of its initial prediction of the end of January. Pretty impressive stuff John! Although the site is [...]
Autumn Fair Day 3
Wow – where have the last few days gone?! Sorry I missed the update yesterday. I’ve been talking with exhibitors about their show experiences and visitors about theirs, updating our thriving Twitter followers (see what they’re saying about us here), stocking up the dwindling press releases, spotting more amazing products and finally finishing it off [...]
Autumn Fair day 1
Morning lovely people! So here we are on the First day of Autumn Fair, it’s really here! Although the Volume hall was open yesterday this is the official BIG day! Everyone is very excited and there are a fair few people milling around ready to snap up their christmas stock. I have to admit I [...]
Rain, rain go away!
Wow, this weather really is starting to get boring isn’t it! But is there a plus side for shop owners? On a trip to Covent Garden’s H&M last night I must have spent at least 20 minutes longer than originally planned, in the store due to the torrential downpour outside. And yes, it also made [...]
Raising awareness about Climate Change and finding solutions
The subject of this week’s Marketplace Newsletter was our campaign to raise awareness for the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change. We want everyone to get together to save the wrold. There has already been a great response to our call for ideas and suggestions, which you can see attached to one of our [...]
Crafts, DIY and Baking all doing well.
The mood at the moment is definitely moving towards doing things for ourselves. More of us are turning to DIY in a bid to improving our properties, craft sales are on the up and sales in home baking are rising too. According to Jon Snow’s daily email Snowmail sales of food processors are up 28 [...]
