Jupiter calculates that online retailers are losing out on E7.5bn (£4.6bn) by failing to convert these internet browsers into internet shoppers. In the US the federal trade commission recently issued warnings to 100 retailers threatening them with...
Bricks and mortar retailers added that in the absence of mainstream businesses to maintain, dot-coms had the resources to concentrate on technical performance and customer service. Nick Jones, a research analyst with Jupiter, agreed that...
While there is much nonsense talked about a consumer confidence crisis, on an 'overall risk' scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), the key e-retailing participants and their associated risks are: the media (0), capital markets (0), consumers (1...
The overall trading loss decreased by 56 per cent to only £2.7m. QXL still has a six month operating loss of more than £10m to contend with. Having been through a period of rapid expansion, QXL now seems to be focusing on controlling costs and says...
These are the first signs of a landslide which is going to engulf the British economy," he said. Norwich Union is to send 2,500 jobs offshore to India next year in a move that could lead to the loss of hundreds of IT jobs at the insurance firm.
Highly available supply chain systems that are easy to access by thousands of participants using multiple standards are not a core expertise of most retailers and manufactures - providing such systems is a job for specialists like GXS.