The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is scrutinising eBay’s £7 billion deal with Norwegian business, Adevinta, as part of a crackdown on digital monopolies. The deal involves the sale of eBay’s classified ads division to Adevinta for £1.8 billion in cash and 44 per cent of the combined firm. The deal includes Gumtree and Motors.co.uk,
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Fiona Young is the product designer at Southfield Ltd, a family run Giftware business based in Scotland which has been trading for over 40 years, designing and making all products in-house. The Terribly Posh and Dead posh bespoke range has been popping up all over the UK in independent gift shops. Retailers who share their
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A new report released by Textlocal, one of the UK’s leading SMS platforms, reveals that mobile opportunities are set to revolutionise the industry as operators increasingly embrace the SMS platform to help drive activity and integration. It was found that 59% of the UK’s digital buyers make their purchases on mobile devices and the scale
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Alan Monahan writes: Fed up with reading downbeat pre and post-holiday stories about footfall and predicted sales, I turned in desperation to Amazon Echo, my new Christmas toy, to find out if the future looked brighter for retailers. Surely the all-knowing Alexa would be able to tell me if shop owners could expect economic salvation
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At the recent Giftware Association AGM, social media and digital commerce expert Warren Knight, founder and CEO of Gloople, told the audience about the importance of integrating social media into their businesses and what they needed to be able to start transacting online. Social commerce – sales generated via social media – is set to
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The next generation of ‘social shopper’ is expected to emerge as a force to be reckoned with by 2021 according to new research from Barclays, with 41 per cent of the UK’s consumer population expected to be influenced by or using social media to make a purchase. Amongst 25 to 34 year olds this figure
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