Online marketplace Notonthehighstreet.com has
boosted its management team with three hires. Former
Amazon.com director of UK softlines Jason Weston
is named chief operating officer; Mark Hodson, former marketing
director at PayPal, becomes chief marketing
officer and former manager of regional strategic partnerships for
Google Maya Moufarek is appointed director of
international development.
Customers of Aurora Fashions brands
Coast, Oasis,
Warehouse and Karen Millen are
now able to shop for out-of-stock items in-store using an
iPad-enabled point-of-sale system. The system, provided by BT
Expedite, allows sales assistants to access each of the brands
websites from the store, check product availability and place
orders. Customers can pay on the spot using mobile payments,
reducing queues at the tills. The system is being trialled in
eight Aurora Fashion stores in London and Oxford.
The Sunday Times interviews Miles Roberts of DS
Smith, the supplier of recycled packaging, in the week
that the company receives a binding offer for
Spicers from Unipapel SA.
Spanish paper group Unipapel will pay £200 million for the
office products wholesaler and the sale is expected to be
completed by 31st December 2011.
More on Boden‘s record profits for 2010 in this
morning’s Guardian and in the Daily Mail.
Share