Ecommerce News

30/01/2013

Neil Ashworth has been appointed to succeed Mark Lewis as the CEO of Collect+. Ashworth has had a varied career including roles at Woolworths and Tesco. He joins Collect+ as it has expanded to include more that 5000 outlets for its service as well as managing returns for Amazon, Clarks, Asda and ASOS. Neil Ashworth [...]

29/01/2013

Mark Lewis, who will be known to many of you as the MD of delivery firm Collect+, is on the move. It has been reported in Retail Week that he has been appointed as the new head of online for retailer John Lewis. People with longer memories may also recall that Mark had a 6 [...]

24/01/2013

Multi-channel ecommerce service provider Lengow has released these tips and advice for success in 2013. Be mobile compatible This dynamism has been driven, among others, by the development of the m-commerce. Retail on mobile devices knew a strong development over the past few months: 20% of UK online sales were made through mobile devices (including [...]

24/01/2013

A new page has appeared on the Royal Mail website with the message “Royal Mail does not currently apply a surcharge to the contract prices for letters or parcels. It is considering applying fuel surcharging to some contract parcels products from April 2013“. It’s quite normal for many couriers to apply surcharges, in fact there [...]

23/01/2013

ChannelAdvisor have announced support for Google Shopping, Amazon Webstore and Amazon Italy, in their latest Winter update. Google Shopping The 13th of February is D Day for Google Shopping in the United Kingdom, the 13th is the date that Google will be switching on Product Listing Ads in the UK and will mark the end [...]

23/01/2013

The law doesn’t set a minimum temperature for the workplace but the Health & Safety Executive suggests a minimum 16°C, or 13°C if much of the work is physical, e.g. in the warehouse. However you might find your employees aren’t working to their full potential if they’re say in coats, hats and scarves and can’t [...]

22/01/2013

If you’ve got an ekmPowershop ecommerce website and are wondering how to get your products listed and selling on marketplaces, then their new partnership with SellerExpress is made just for that – more sales through more channels. You might think it strange for Tamebay to be writing about how to sell on marketplaces, but I’m [...]

21/01/2013

Boxing Day was a record breaking day for ecommerce, according to ecommerce service provider Lengow. It’s testament to how quickly ecommerce bounces back after the pre-Christmas slump and also even more evidence that there was nothing half-decent on the box this year. According to research they have released, British online shoppers spent 14m hours online [...]

18/01/2013

Thank goodness for small mercies. At least the December/November selling peak period remained unhampered by snowy conditions on any major scale. But now, perhaps inevitably, here comes the first nationwide snow event for a while and very possibly just the first of 2013. Though the cold snap is predicted to continue, the actual snow isn’t [...]

16/01/2013

Ecommerce in Britain over the past five years has, quite remarkably, bucked most of the trends of the British economy. It continues to grow strongly and steadily. 2013 will be no different there. In the UK, eBay and ecommerce was lucky to be born and enjoy its childhood years in the boom time. It’s surely [...]