DIY boom during lockdown helps put B&Q owner Kingfisher back on road to recovery By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:09 BST, 22 July 2020 | Updated: 22:20 BST, 22 July 2020 A DIY boom during lockdown has helped put B&Q owner Kingfisher back on the road to recovery. The firm, which also … Read more
Britvic hit by large quarterly sales plunge after lockdown forced pubs and restaurants to close The ‘eat out to help out’ scheme could provide a boost for Britvic in August Britvic’s total revenues so far this year are down five per cent to just over £1bn CEO Simon Litherland: The results show the ‘full market … Read more
Supermarket sales have risen £3.2billion to a new record high as people working from home splashed out on tea, coffee and biscuits. Grocery sales for the 12 weeks to July 12 skyrocketed by 16.9 per cent to £31.6billion – the fastest increase since records began in 1994. Shoppers spent an additional £24million on tea and coffee and £19million on biscuits as … Read more
Harry Potter publisher boosted by lockdown readers: Bloomsbury magics up strong sales for fantasy fiction and digital books Harry Potter book sales helped Bloomsbury’s children’s division to jump by 27% In April, the company furloughed staff and cut its board members’ pay by 30% Britons read 2.7 hours more per week in early May than … Read more
In times of crisis, foods from our childhood can provide a lot of comfort. And apparently, our dish of choice is trifle – we’ve been buying mountains of the stuff during the pandemic. Sales of packet trifle kits have risen by 738 per cent this year, compared with 2019, researchers have found. Other Seventies dishes … Read more
I run a small jewellery business and am used to using Instagram and other social channels to market my pieces. But with all the pressures of the coronavirus crisis, it’s harder to convert my posts into sales. Do you have any tips? Sisters Elma and Amra Beganovich are digital influencers with a following of 2.3 … Read more
Many households have bolstered their financial defences with the purchase of protection insurance during coronavirus – with sales up by a quarter By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 22:40 BST, 11 July 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has caused many households to bolster their financial defences with … Read more
Social distancing and lockdown restrictions has resulted in people sporting rather interesting hairstyles over the last couple of months. Thousands have gone online to share hilarious quarantine hair style woes, grey roots as well as tips and failures of cutting their own hair. It’s been an uncomfortable few months for those who got their hair … Read more
Fashion giant H&M has announced plans to axe 170 stores across Europe this year in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The closures, which are likely to see hundreds of jobs cut around the continent, come after sales fell by 50 per cent in the midst of the pandemic. The high street retailer was forced … Read more
Wear sun cream INDOORS, says Boots in ‘shameless’ bid to boost sales Boots advises its customers to ‘wear sun cream indoors to protect your skin’ What Boots called ‘great advice’ has been dismissed by leading dermatologists Customers have accused the chain of ‘shamelessly’ trying to increase profits By Lucy Jones For The Mail On Sunday … Read more