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Online Retailer Increases Revenue, Customer Satisfaction With New e-Commerce Portal
White Papers Originally a mail-order fashion retailer, Bon'A Parte Postshop A/S (Bon'A Parte) believes the immediacy and convenience of online shopping matches its target audience of busy professional women. Bon'A Parte wanted in 2002 to expand its business...
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
Old Economy lines up to take over dotcoms
News UK High Street retailer John Lewis confirmed Tuesday that it will purchase the UK operations of troubled e-tailer Buy.com, as analysts claim that more "old economy" companies will follow its lead this year.
[February 6, 2001, 9:18]
Biggest hacking fraud ever
News American online CD-retailer CD Universe, admitted that "a portion of its customer data" had been stolen and that an attempt had been made to blackmail the firm over the return of the information.eUniverse -- parent of CD Universe -- admitted it...
[January 12, 2000, 9:19]
Tesco.com is no e-basket case
News UK retailer Tesco has reinforced its position as one of the UK's e-commerce success stories after forecasting that its Web operations will reach profitability by the end of this year. Tesco's deal with US grocery retailer chain Safeway will give it...
[September 18, 2001, 10:50]
E-tailer Boxman seeks liquidation
News Online CD retailer Boxman is seeking voluntary liquidation after failing to raise vital cash needed to keep trading. Since then, several dot-com businesses have crashed including health retailer clickmango and games site UR Wired.
[October 11, 2000, 7:48]
E-tailer Boxman seeks liquidation
News Online CD retailer Boxman is seeking voluntary liquidation after failing to raise vital cash needed to keep trading. Since then, several dot-com businesses have crashed including health retailer clickmango and games site URwired.
[October 11, 2000, 13:31]
E-shoppers put faith in high street names
News The online insurer found that UK consumers are much more likely to buy from the Web site of a "household name" retailer rather than an e-commerce site without a physical presence in the shopping centre -- even if they knew and trusted it.
[December 2, 2003, 12:45]
The Day Ahead: Profits are Amazon's only defence against critics
News What this means is that Suria looks at Amazon as a retailer, not an e-tailer. Suria contends Amazon looks like a retailer these days. As we all know by now, the alleged pillar of consumer e-commerce tumbled 19 percent Friday on concerns about...
[June 26, 2000, 11:55]
AOL invests $100m in Amazon
News The Seattle-based retailer will also provide AOL customers with many of the services it provides on its own site, including personalisation features and product comparisons. Amazon has had a promotional deal with AOL since 1997, through which the...
[July 24, 2001, 9:14]
E-Christmas may not live up to promise
News According to Verdict's figures, online shopping accounted for just 0.2 percent of total retailer sales in 1998, rising to 2.5 percent by 2003. Santa has swapped his sleigh for a surfboard this year," predicts the director of online video retailer...
[November 15, 1999, 16:39]
The high(er) cost of business online
News According to the survey, a $100 transaction charged on a credit card could end up costing a Web-based retailer $3.10 to collect as opposed to $2.10 to process the same type of purchase at a real-world retailer.
[July 20, 2000, 9:07]
Dixons ditches high street for the Web
News Dixons will move off the high street and exist purely as an online retailer, Dixons Services Group announced on Wednesday. Electrical goods retailer DSG said that it will rebrand its high street Dixons stores as Currys.digital, and move the Dixons...
[April 5, 2006, 12:50]
Amazon UK lands Borders deal
News Greg Hart, director for media products at Amazon.co.uk, said there was no real reason why it had taken three years to extend the US relationship to the UK other than that the UK arm of Borders had not approached the online retailer during that time.
[October 27, 2004, 13:00]
Online buyers get new rights
News And if a retailer wants to take a buyer to court, they will have to do so in the buyer's home country. Not every online retailer will be caught by the act, according to legal experts: only those companies that "direct" their activities at a...
[March 5, 2002, 6:31]
E-commerce celebrates double figures
News Few remember or have ever even heard of the Web retailer, but on 11 August, 1994, the college grads that founded NetMarket claimed they had conducted the very first secure retail transaction on the Web.
[August 17, 2004, 11:00]
E-commerce still booming
News Among the factors Forrester cited as contributing to the expansion of the online retail market were greater numbers of individual US households adopting online shopping habits, continued retailer innovations and e-commerce site improvements.
[August 23, 2004, 14:10]
E-business leaders say 'watch your customers'
News In response, Hoberman suggested this was one reason why the e-retailer is able to offer such good prices, given how expensive decent customer service can be. Monitoring user experience and investing heavily in customer service is a vital part of...
[September 28, 2004, 12:50]
E-commerce chief leaves Bertelsmann
News Schmidt also led the company's acquisitions of Web retailer CDNow and of online music locker Myplay for about $30m in May. Andreas Schmidt, the head Bertelsmann's e-commerce division, resigned Wednesday to pursue "new entrepreneurial opportunities...
[November 28, 2001, 14:38]
E-commerce booms in UK
News You can do a grocery shop in half an hour instead of half a day, and it's great for Christmas gifts, because the retailer will wrap and deliver your presents for you," Stewart added. Over £1bn was spent by UK online shoppers last month, as Britain...
[December 13, 2002, 16:45]
E-commerce sites open to legal attack
News Under the Distance Selling Regulations, which came into effect at the end of October, consumers buying from a retailer where face-to-face contact is not involved have a right to such information, as well as a cooling-off period and protection...
[March 14, 2001, 16:11]
