About 6 months ago I looked into the Adams.co.uk adminstration case. In that article I highlighted several factors that had contributed to the company’s fall from grace – one of which was the company’s complete lack of forward thinking and investment in their website. Since the company went into administration, it has re-emerged reinvigorated and [...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The baby clothing and accessories high street retailer Adams went into administration on New Year’s Eve 2008. It had already been bought out of administration in February 2007 by successful entrepreneur, John Shannon, and now he’s done it again. The way it stands, I think he’ll be buying it back from adminstrators in another year [...]
Monday, February 9, 2009
The Times online published a great article today on how the focus of larger retail groups is switching more and more to online selling. In a report that echoes everything I said more than 2 weeks ago, the article suggests that the internet has long been the brightest star in retail’s firmament. But that many [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
With the deepening economic crunch hitting High Streets like never before, here’s 5 reasons why moving your retail business online will get you through the recession. High St. shop leases and rents have been steadily rising over the past decade on the back of the property boom but now that our pockets are being hit and [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Another great display of the power and allure of taking your business online is yesterday’s formal announcement by the Barclays brothers, owners of the Shop Direct Group (littlewoods), that they had bought the Woolworths brand and were going to turn the whole operation into an online-based seller. All I thought of when I read that [...]
Friday, January 16, 2009
Even as companies continue to struggle, the important take-away is that the Web is continuing to grow, with online retail sales projected to rise 11% this year Christmas 2008 has just passed, Woolworths and Waterford Wedgwood are amongst some of the latest iconic British companies to go into adminstration and the UK is in the midst [...]
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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