Online beauty products retailer Feelunique saw
turnover for December grow 50 per cent on last year, with online
sales of £3.2 million, compared with £2.2 million in
2010. The company attributes its festive success to an increase
in the number of high-end brands it stocks, growing the range to
15,700 products from 491 brands. Feelunique’s busiest day was
Monday, 5th December, when more 75,000 consumers visited the
website. By turnover, the busiest day of the year was 28th
November, when feelunique.com posted sales of £169,000. In
total, nearly 172,000 items were shipped in December.
Another cosmetics retailer that did well this past Christmas is
Lush. Sales exceeded expectations, with total UK
retail sales growing 13.8 per cent on December 2010. Excluding new
and relocated stores, like-for-like sales were up 5
per cent.
Blacks Leisure is to appoint KPMG to sell its
trade, assets and brands through the administration process.
Trading in its shares has been suspended from the London Stock
Exchange.
Avery Dennison has sold its office products
business to 3M, the company behind the
Post-it and Scotch Tape brands,
for $550 million (£355 million). Avery’s consumer and office
products division, which expects to announce sales of $765
million (£494 million) and EBITDA of $95 million (£61
million) for 2011, specialises in labels and other printable
media. Avery Dennison says it will use the proceeds from the
transaction to pay down debt.
Supermarket Morrisons has appointed
Sainsbury’s head of non-food marketing Rebecca
Singleton as marketing director. Singleton joins Morrisons at the
end of March, assuming responsibility for corporate brand,
advertising, in-store marketing and print services. She will
report into corporate marketing and operations director Richard
Lancaster who will continue to have overall responsibility for
all marketing communications, corporate campaigns as well as
merchandising, space and format. In related news, Simon Eastwood,
Morrisons’ commercial director, services, is moving to the new
role of customer experience director reporting directly into
group commercial director, Richard Hodgson.
French postal operator La Poste and
Switzerland’s Swiss Post are to merge their
cross-border mail activities this year. The partnership will form
a joint venture company equally owned by La Poste and Swiss Post.
The new company will combine all cross-border mail activities of
La Poste and Swiss Post, except for inbound and outbound
cross-border mail business in France and Switzerland.
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