Omnicom acquires ad agency behind John Lewis campaign May 24, 2012 ADAM & Eve, the communications agency behind the much-loved John Lewis adverts, was yesterday bought by DDB, a subsidiary of Omnicom. The £60m deal will see the company’s four founding partners – Jon Forsyth, Ben Priest, James Murphy and David Golding – assume senior roles at Adam & Eve / DDB. The five year old firm has risen [...]
Little Christmas cheer for retail January 14, 2013 Chief Market Strategist, Cantor Index THE official retail activity figures, which are posted monthly or at specific times like Christmas, are accurate but often indecipherable to the layman. The small print is where the message is. And the most recent figures suggest that Christmas was great for some, but brutal for others. The situation was [...]
JOHN LEWIS CHAIRMAN BAGS £1M May 2, 2012 CHARLIE Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, took home a total salary of £954,000 last year. Mayfield’s base salary was £825,000, with additional payments including a partnership bonus of £115,000 – equal to the 14 per cent bonus awarded across the group. The firm said Mayfield’s salary was 60 times the average basic salary [...]
‘Tis the season November 29, 2012 ROASTED CHESTNUT DELUXE CANDLE Jo Malone, £80 www.jomalone.co.uk CRANBERRY WREATH Selfridges, £69.95 www.selfridges.com VINTAGE ROSE NAPKIN RINGS (SET OF 4) Walton & Co, £12 www.selfridges.com CHRISTMAS CARD HOLDER Selfridges, £34.95 www.selfridges.com SNOWFLAKE FELT COASTERS (SET OF 4) John Lewis, £15 www.johnlewis.com TARTAN CHRISTMAS STOCKING Gisela Graham, £15.95 www.selfridges.com LARGE TABLE RUNNER Walton & Co, £32 [...]
Tesco fightback steadies giant’s market share January 29, 2013 TESCO maintained its market share and matched market growth for the first time since June 2011, according to the latest grocery share data from Kantar Worldpanel. The UK’s biggest supermarket grew sales year-on-year by 3.3 per cent in the 12 weeks to 20 January, giving it a market share of 30.4 per cent, as its [...]
Sainsbury’s takes the lead at Christmas January 8, 2013 SAINSBURY posted the highest sales growth of the so called big four grocers in the run-up to Christmas and was the only one to grow market share, data revealed yesterday. Figures from Kantar Worldpanel showed Britain’s grocery market grew 3.2 per cent in the 12 weeks to 23 December, with the strongest growth at the [...]
Online retailers prepare for busiest day ever December 2, 2012 HIGH street shops and online retailers will face one of their fiercest battles yet for customers this Christmas, with today set to mark the busiest internet shopping day of the year. UK online sales will peak today – dubbed Mega Monday by City analysts – with Visa Europe expecting 6.8m transactions worth £320m to be [...]
John Lewis reports “stunning” Easter week April 13, 2012 Britain’s biggest department store chain John Lewis said it enjoyed a “stunning” week’s trade in the seven days to Easter Saturday as poor weather made shopping an attractive pursuit. The employee-owned retailer said on Friday its sales jumped 27.5 per cent year-on-year to £66.7m in the week to 7 April. “In comparison with the Good [...]
Waitrose smashes Christmas sales records January 3, 2013 WAITROSE yesterday toasted record trading in the run-up to the New Year after the grocer said aggressive promotions on products such as champagne and its Brand Price Match campaign helped to lure customers from rivals. The upmarket supermarket, which is owned by John Lewis, said like-for-like sales rose 5.4 per cent between 18 December New [...]
On his naughty list? Revenge of Secret Santa December 19, 2012 A DISTURBING Christmas survey from NPW, the supplier of impulse purchase products to high street stores such as John Lewis and Paperchase. The firm’s Christmas elves told The Capitalist that not only do a third of us now enter into office present-giving via a mystery Father Christmas, but 32 per cent of chief executives use [...]