Luxury-goods etailer My-wardrobe.com saw
like-for-like sales almost double during 2010. The online
retailer, which sells brands including Mulberry and Helmut Lang,
repositioned itself as a retailer of “accessible
luxury” and relaunched its womenswear site during the year.
A relaunch of its menswear site is planned for 2012. The company
has also reported strong growth in European sales during the
first quarter of 2011-up 118 per cent. The growth, says founder
Sarah Curran lays the foundations for future international
expansion.
Shop Direct Group, the parent company of
Littlewoods and Very has hit
its target of achieving 70 per cent of sales online, writes the
Liverpool Daily Post. That, according to
chief executive Mark Newton-Jones makes Shop Direct the
“third-largest internet and remote shopping business in the
UK. Amazon is number one, Tesco
is number two, and we are at number three.”
The Mail’s You Magazine interviews Lady Annabel Astor,
the founder of furniture retailer/cataloguer Oka
and the prime minister’s mother-in-law.
Office supplies business Office Depot, which
operates Viking in the UK, has named Neil
Austrian as chairman and chief executive officer. Austrian has
already served seven months at the helm and has been an Office
Depot director since 1998 when the company merged with Viking
Office Products.
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