News roundup–CNP Professional, Ideal Shopping, Toast, more


CNP Professional, a marketer and distributor of
sports-nutrition products, was awarded a £126,750 grant to
enable it to begin its own manufacturing operation, reports
Crain’s Manchester Business.

Online and TV-shopping business Ideal Shopping
Direct
is launching a new channel on Freeview on 3rd
March for a trial period of four months. According to a company
statement, this provides a “significant opportunity”
for Ideal “to access the Freeview audience and develop its
strategy of growing niche product categories such as craft and
gardening”.

According to Vogue, apparel and decor cataloguer
Toast has collaborated with photographer Deborah
Turbeville to create a film that will be exclusively featured on
its new website.

When the news broke that fashion designer Alexander McQueen had
been found dead, his followers flocked online (and to the shops)
to buy a memento. Liberty,
Selfridges, and
Net-a-porter.com, are all mentioned in a
Times article on the subject.

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