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Bottom falls out of online pants market but e-tail hits £3.8bn
News However online shoppers are continuing to cut back on luxuries, with sales of lingerie and beers, wines and spirits continuing to show decreasing growth: alcohol sales have had negative year-on-year growth in five out of... [22 Sep 2009]
Knickers dropping as recession hits web retail
News Online sales of lingerie have dropped by more than a quarter, according to a new research report. The figures come in stark contrast to the same period the year before, when lingerie sales swelled by 73... [09 Jun 2009]
Booze and knickers back on top in Brits' web shopping
News Gifts and lingerie escaped the downward trend, however, thanks to the seasonal uplift in spending brought on by Valentine's Day. While sales growth is static on the high street, online shopping continues to expand -... [17 Mar 2009]
The Hut buys its Zavvi savvy
News The Zavvi site, which was relaunched today, will expand the number of categories it offers including electricals, computing, perfume and lingerie. We are looking to launch video trailers and introduce... [03 Mar 2009]
figleaves.com tries Red Hat for size
Case Study Online lingerie and nightwear retailer figleaves.com has turned to virtualisation and open source software to revamp the technology platform that will support its upcoming ecommerce site. The decision to move to Red Hat... [02 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.01.09
Round-Up Lingerie is well known as the last resort of the desperate and clueless man on Christmas Eve, along with perfume and chocolates (only gift tokens and cold hard cash involve less inspiration). But just buying the... [09 Jan 2009]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News One such pure-play is online lingerie retailer figleaves.com. Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the channel... [18 Jul 2008]
figleaves.com revamps website
News Online lingerie and nightwear retailer figleaves.com is set to relaunch its website in the new year. The underlying ecommerce suite for the new version of the site is supplied by ATG and allows the retailer to analyse... [16 Jul 2008]
Record online sales in November
News Christmas gifts and alcohol were the highest selling categories, followed by health and beauty, accessories, lingerie and electrical goods. Online shoppers spent a record £5.4bn last month, underlining the steady growth... [20 Dec 2007]
Storm in a D-cup: Marks & Sparks expands RFID trials
News When fellow garment seller Benetton tried to tag women's lingerie, it was met with a storm of protest and the company eventually dropped the plans. Marks and Spencer has decided to take RFID technology into even more... [22 Feb 2005]
Disney-porn hook-up sends typosquatter to jail
News John Zuccarini, 56, had registered misspelled versions of Disney trademarks, as well as Harry Potter, boy band the Backstreet Boys and popular US lingerie store Victoria's Secret, to fool web users into visiting sites... [01 Mar 2004]
Will's Web Watch: The online Valentine
Comment There is also a special Valentine's lingerie collection and of course the favourites like chocolate body paint, furry handcuffs and the legendary Rampant Rabbit," he added, referring to the world's best-selling vibrator. [12 Feb 2004]
E-tail sites failing the Christmas test
News Sainsbury's website took 25 seconds to access at peak times while lingerie site Figleaves.com kept shoppers waiting 22.5 seconds. While e-tailers will doubtless be counting their takings from bumper Christmas sales well... [19 Dec 2003]
'A waste of time and money': The verdict on BT's broadband scheme
News John Vincent, MD of online lingerie seller MidnightExpress, said: "I called ISP Mistral which was on the BT list and they said they'd had nothing official from BT, so they didn't know what to do with my registration... [04 Jul 2002]
Ann Summers brings in virus protection
News Saucy lingerie firm Ann Summers has signed a deal with anti-virus firm Sophos to get protection against malware. The lingerie firm will be getting both anti-virus updates and technical support from Sophos. [09 May 2002]
