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Debenhams almost doubles Xmas online sales

News Department-store chain Debenhams said its online business grew by 85 per cent in terms of sales and 57 per cent in terms of visitor numbers in the four weeks to 5 January.silicon.com Retail & Leisure In a statement, Debenhams chief executive Rob...

Tags: debenhams, online, christmas, terms

[16 Jan 2008]

RFID platform boosts <strong>Debenhams</strong>' profits

RFID platform boosts Debenhams' profits

News Department store chain Debenhams has credited investment in a new IT platform and its ecommerce website for helping to boost annual profits to £131.4m. Pre-tax profits are up 11.5 per cent for the 12 months ended 30 September 2007, while sales also...

Tags: ecommerce, rfid, debenhams

[23 Oct 2007]

Retailers ignoring their online shoppers

News Debenhams and Opodo have dropped off the list since May last year. UK high street stores are climbing up the list of top online retail sites but many retailers are still letting the online opportunity pass them by.

Tags: online shopping, retail

[30 May 2007]

Future mobiles will cost consumers $150bn

News If I buy a towel from Debenhams, they don't tell me I can use it once a month. With the average handset becoming ever more high-end, there will be more cash sunk into content and services by consumers - up to $150bn by 2011, analysts believe.

Tags: mobile content, nfc, gambling, sms

[31 Jan 2007]

Nectar loyalty card moves call centre to India

Nectar loyalty card moves call centre to India

News Nectar gives shoppers points every time they make a purchase at the likes of BP, Debenhams and Sainsbury's and allows them to redeem the points at a later date in part payment for goods. Store loyalty card Nectar has revealed plans to move a chunk...

Tags: offshoring, bpo

[13 Apr 2005]

Littlewoods wins Energis IT head

Littlewoods wins Energis IT head

News He has previously been in senior IT management positions at Debenhams, Burton Group and Marks and Spencer. The IT director at telecoms supplier Energis has left the company to join one of its largest customers as CIO.

[23 Mar 2005]

My first computer: The Vic-20

News What he did like was the top floor of Debenhams in Staines, and I can still remember one of the sales assistant's comments all these years later: "Oh no sir - these things will never be obsolete. This article was first published in February 2002 as...

Tags: vic-20

[27 Jan 2005]

ebookers holidaymakers: Do you have a Nectar card?

News Online travel agent ebookers has announced it is joining the Nectar card scheme - enabling its customers to take advantage of the UK's largest loyalty card programme.ebookers joins the likes of Barclaycard, Bottoms Up, BP, Debenhams, Sainsbury's...

Tags: ebookers, card, nectar

[08 Sep 2004]

"We're back" - Energis reports 2004 profit

News A key signing this year has been Martin Wyke, formerly IT director at Debenhams and other UK retailers. Energis claims to have turned a corner, posting its first annual profit since the severe restructuring at the telco in 2002.

Tags: energis

[16 Jun 2004]

Security and big projects to dominate IT Directors' Forum

Security and big projects to dominate IT Directors' Forum

News CIOs, IT directors and IT managers from companies such as the BBC, DaimlerChrysler, Debenhams, Dixons Group, Ginsters, Levi Strauss & Co, Pfizer, Sporting Index and Virgin Trains will spend the next two days meeting with suppliers and attending...

[12 May 2004]

Melinda Messenger fronts Internet Shopping Day

Melinda Messenger fronts Internet Shopping Day

News The event is organised by e-tail body IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group), and will be supported by high street staples such as Boots, Virgin and Debenhams and the obvious charms of the event's frontwoman, Melinda Messenger.

[24 Jul 2003]

Shopping and make-up boost female surfers

Shopping and make-up boost female surfers

News UK websites with the greatest proportion of women users included Abbey National, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Next and Tesco according to the research. The number of UK women surfing the web is rising but men still make up over half of the total...

[24 Jun 2003]

Ebusiness Despatches: 2002 - the year the four horsemen of the apocalypse arrived

Comment To name names they are: Ivan Brooks, CIO at McDonalds, Martin Wyke, IS director, Debenhams, and John Yard, IT director at the Inland Revenue. It has been a tough year all round. General economic woes have affected IT departments.

[11 Dec 2002]

E-tailers creaking under the Christmas rush

E-tailers creaking under the Christmas rush

News Some of the UK's leading e-tailers are failing to cope with the seasonal rush, with the websites of CD-Wow, Currys, Debenhams and Dixons all creaking under the strain. On Monday 2 December, Tuesday 3 December and Wednesday 4 December, the sites of...

[09 Dec 2002]

EXCLUSIVE: 1,800 shoppers' details exposed online

EXCLUSIVE: 1,800 shoppers' details exposed online

News A list of more than 1,800 web users and their personal details has been left at an extension of www.ukshops.co.uk, an online shopping mall that directs buyers to well-known names such as Boots, Comet, Debenhams and Interflora.

[12 Aug 2002]

Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64

Comment What he did like was the top floor of Debenhams in Staines, and I can still remember one of the sales assistant's comments all these years later: "Oh no sir - these things will never be obsolete. So far in our 1980s home computing series we've...

[04 Feb 2002]

Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64

Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64

News What he did like was the top floor of Debenhams in Staines, and I can still remember one of the sales assistant's comments all these years later: "Oh no sir - these things will never be obsolete. So far in our 1980s home computing series we've...

[01 Feb 2002]

Online lingerie sites are holding their own

Online lingerie sites are holding their own

News Argos Additions, Briefs4men, Debenhams, Dorothy Perkins, Fig Leaves, Pants4men, and Tesco all picked up four out of five stars in the survey, proving that things are pretty good in the online knicker buying world - but all could do better.

[26 Oct 2001]

E-tailers fight back

E-tailers fight back

News Those willing to be named include Argos, Debenhams, Iceland, John Lewis and Thomas Cook. UK e-tailers are now accounting for over one per cent of total retail sales - a far larger segment than previous estimates suggested.

[25 May 2001]

Ann Summers can't keep it up for Valentine's shoppers

Ann Summers can't keep it up for Valentine's shoppers

News They were Amazon, Ann Summers, Debenhams, Harrods, Interflora, John Lewis, Lastminute, Next and Thorntons. BMC Software tested nine sites which sell 'romantic' goods using its SiteAngel software, monitoring their performance, downtime and...

[13 Feb 2001]

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