SecretSales.com has closed a second round of
funding from German private-sales website
Brands4Friends. Without disclosing the level of
investment, SecretSales chief executive Nish Kukadia said the
capital will be used to “accelerate the growth of the
business by opening more marketing channels, augmenting the
technology infrastructure and bringing on board some key
hires”. The business has already appointed John McKenzie,
who joins from competing site BrandAlley as
associate buying director; Natalie Holder, formerly a lingerie
buyer at department store chain Fenwicks, will
lead the lingerie portfolio; Melanie Smallwood will head up the
womenswear portfolio and joins from Harvey
Nichols where she was a senior buyer.
Luxury-shirt retailer Thomas Pink delivered
profits of £600,000 on revenues of £30 million, reports
ThisIsMoney. The article goes on to say that
three years earlier, Thomas Pink “was making twice as much
profit on lower revenues of £25.5 million”.
Firebox is now offering customers living within
the M25 same-day delivery. The gifts and gadgets etailer has
chosen OCS Worldwide to deliver orders placed before 4pm between
6-11pm the same day. Orders placed after 4pm will be despatched
the following working day for delivery in the evening, and orders
placed over the weekend will be delivered on Monday
evening.
As
reported in June nursery retailer Mamas &
Papas has landed in the US. Through a partnership with
BabiesRUs, Mamas & Papas will sell its baby gear
in-store and online at Babiesrus.com/MamasandPapas.
Miriam Lahage, who founded discount-fashion etailer
Koodos in 2007 and sold it to E-Trader
Group in 2009, has joined eBay in the
newly created role of general manager, eBay Fashion.
IBM has agreed to buy Unica, a
provider of marketing and analytics services, for approximately
$480 million (£306 million). The deal will enhance IBM’s
ability to help its clients analyse and predict customer
preferences and develop more targeted marketing campaigns.
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