Year-on-year sales at discount fashion cataloguer M&M Direct rose 21 per cent for the 10 weeks ended 3rd January, The Times reports. The company will be launching a German-language website later this year.
At fashion etailer ASOS, year-on-year sales for the five weeks to 3rd January were up 30 per cent. For the 42 weeks to 17th January, sales rose 38 per cent. UK sales rose 25 per cent during that period, which international sales soared by 102 per cent.
Sales at decor cataloguer/retailer the White Company grew 10 per cent for the 10 weeks to 26th December compared with the previous year, according to the Financial Times.
Multi title mailer N Brown Group has set up a 40-person “select service team” for its upscale catalogues such as fashion brand Gray & Osbourn and decor cataloguer/retailer House of Bath, Crain’s Manchester Business reports.
Massachusetts newspaper the MetroWest Daily News reports on Hotel Chocolat’s US invasion. The company has two US stores and plans to open more.
Mark Constantine, the chief of eco-friendly beauty products merchant Lush, is the subject of a Times feature in which he’s dubbed “the godfather of green beauty”.
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