Turnover at supermarket Morrisons rose 7 per cent
to £17.7 billion in the year ended 29th January. Underlying
profits were up 8 per cent to £935 million. The company notes
that as sales of general merchandise shift away from “big
box” supermarkets to online, Morrisons’ future for non-food
is in “clicks not bricks”. Chairman Sir Ian Gibson
said in a statement, “To serve more customers, more of the
time, we need to be multiformat and multichannel, tailoring our
offer to suit the needs of different customers.” Its plans
for the launch of Morrisons.com are on schedule for late 2012.
New Look has confirmed the departure of its
creative director Barbara Horspool, who rejoined the business
last year. The company has also lost its head of buying Nicky
Wills and it’s head of merchandising for womenswear David Barton.
These are the latest in a string of exits, which have included
chief operating officer Will Kernan, eCommerce director Dom
McBrien and marketing director Joe Irons.
Lastminute.com has introduced an on-site
merchandising platform that uses Google maps, customer search,
refinement and recommendation tools to enable customers to browse
the site and see the most relevant results. The customer
engagement platform, called “inspire me”, is powered
by FusePump’s data feed extraction technology.
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