Buy Now, Pay Later provider Zip arrives in the UK
Buy Now, Pay Later provider Zip has announced its UK arrival with Homebase one of its first major brand partners – the first and...
Virgin Experience Days acquires leading US experience gift provider Cloud 9 Living in expansion...
UK gift experience provider Virgin Experience Days will acquire the whole of Cloud 9 Living’s US operations.
The two brands are leaders in their domestic...
Retailers expect consumers to show them the love this ‘virtual’ Valentine’s Day
Retailers are feeling the love in the run up to Valentine’s Day, with two fifths (41 per cent) expecting to see a sales boost,...
Retail industry sees entrepreneurial boom from under-25s
GoDaddy has released new research which finds that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a surge in young people starting their own retail businesses in...
The Garden Trading Company acquired by premium British brand Joules in £12.5m deal
Law firm BDB Pitmans has acted in the sale of Oxfordshire-based The Garden Trading Company Limited (“Garden Trading”) to the Joules Group plc (“Joules”).
Joules,...
£7bn spent by UK consumers with local independent businesses in 2020
UK consumers spent over an estimated £7.2bn supporting local independent business in 2020, new data from Tyl by NatWest reveals.
The survey, which explored consumers’ pandemic purchasing...
Boohoo buys Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton
Online fashion retailer Boohoo has bought Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burtons for £25.2million. Around 260 jobs, mainly head office roles, will be saved as...
New Pay As You Grow facility will enable more flexible repayments on Bounce Back...
The British Business Bank, the UK’s economic development bank, today announces further details of Pay As You Grow, which helps UK smaller businesses that...
Asos buys Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands
ASOS has announced it is paying a total of £330m for the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands, plus stock following the collapse...
UK contactless limit could be raised to £100
The upper limit on contactless payments could be increased to £100. You can currently touch and pay with Contactless for amounts up to £45 without...
