L’Oreal-owned cosmetics retailer The Body Shop
posted a 0.7 percent like-for-like sales rise for the year to
31st December 2009 to €726.3 million (£631.2 million).
The Body Shop recorded “solid growth” in most of
Asia, the Middle East and mainland Europe. Though, according to a
company statement retail footfall was negatively affected by the
recession in the UK and US.
According to the Social Trends report published today by the
Office for National Statistics, more UK adults bought goods
online in 2009 than consumers in any other EU country. Two-thirds
of Brits aged 16 to 74 had shopped online last year, compared
with 56 percent in Germany, 45 percent in France. The EU average
was 37 percent.
RM, a distributor of educational products,
software, and systems, has won an exclusive three-year contract
worth £5 million to provide ICT technology to the Harris
Federation of South London Schools.
The Online Fashion Agency interviews
Catalogue Exchange chair Alison Lancaster.
Have you checked out the Telegraph’s 100 Growth Companies Index? It’s
an at-a-glance view of privately owned UK-based companies that
have high growth potential. Among those featured are
Figleaves, Glasses Direct, and the Hut
Group.
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