Debenhams has launched the next instalment of
its “Life Made Fabulous” TV ad campaign after its
summer campaign provided a million pound sales boost for its
swimwear category. The first autumn/winter advert is set to air
today during Emmerdale on ITV1 and will run up until 9th
September 2012.
Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland are to share in a
£69 million return from the collapse of apparel retailer
Peacocks, despite the retailer’s pension fund
being left with a £15.8 million shortfall. The Telegraph reports that the banks, as secured
creditors will receive a return of £35 million and on top
of this have already shared £34 million, which was held in
the company’s bank accounts on the day Peacocks was placed into
administration. The £69 million return is slightly more than
half the £134 million the banking syndicate was owed as a
result of the retailer’s collapse.
The Telegraph notes that Marks &
Spencer is set to install free Wi-Fi into all of its UK
stores and arm customer assistants with iPads as part of plans to
push its eCommerce offering. The article states that the retailer
is investing £100 million on new technology and £150
million on a new model, or platform, for its website that will be
ready by 2014.
Apparel and homewares retailer Matalan has
partnered with eCommerce personalisation provider RichRelevance
to deliver eCommerce personalisation on its site with the aim to
increase merchandising control and extend its personalisation
across multiple channels. The integration gives Matalan the
ability to analyse shopping behaviour and affinities alongside
data on relationships between products, product categories,
brands and attributes.
According to the Independent John Lewis will
be the first UK retailer to partner with Barnes &
Noble and sell its Nook electronic book readers. The
Nook device will compete with Amazon’s Kindle
and the Apple iPad.
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