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Top retailers dominate seminar programme at Retail Business Technology Expo 2012 Monday, 12th March 2012
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The Retail Business Technology Expo is set to kick off tomorrow with a host of world-class retailers and industry experts slated to attend.
Over 130 presentations, debates, discussions, panels and Q&A’s concerning multichannel retail, e-commerce, internationalisation, loss prevention and fraud, stores, operations, supply chain and logistics, marketing and lots more will take place from 13th-14th March at Earls Court, London.
Keynote speakers include Paul Coby, IT Director at the John Lewis Partnership; Gunnar Sigurdsson, JMS Partners, former CEO of the Baugur Group; Mark Kelso, Director of Pricing from US retailer Pamida Stores, and many more.
Nick Field, Event Director, Retail Business Technology Expo and Cards & Payments Solutions, said: “Our free, independent seminar line up represents best practice across a broad range of subjects and disciplines for retail, hospitality and leisure organisations. Time invested in visiting the Expo will be paid back tenfold by the knowledge that will be taken away from our education programme.”
Click here to see the full educational programme.
Posted in Consumers, E-Commerce, M-Commerce, People, Retail Industry, Technology Tagged Retail Business Technology Expo 2012, RBTE, Multichannel, E-Commerce, Supply Chain, Marketing, Paul Coby, John Lewis, Gunnar Sigurdsson, JMS Partners, Baugur, Iceland Foods, Hamleys, House of Fraser, Aurum, Mark Kelso, Pamida Stores, Nick Field, Retail & Consumer Industry, Consumer, Events, my, retail, media, news
Hamleys to redesign flagship Regent Street store Monday, 27th February 2012
One of the world’s most famous toy retailers has announced plans to redesign its Regent Street store in central London.
Interior Architects, a Pudsey-based firm, have been appointed to head the Hamley's refurbishment, after working on its Glasgweigan store and head office.
Read more on the story as reported by The Business Desk (registration required).
Posted in Toys Tagged hamleys, toy, store, regent stree, flagship, redesign, pudsey, new, refurbishment
Hamleys set to post record sales Friday, 3rd February 2012
Posted in Retail Industry, Toys Tagged Hamleys, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Gudjon Reynisson
Hamleys bins gender specific store signs Tuesday, 13th December 2011
Feminist groups are celebrating a victory in their campaign to stop gender stereotyping in Hamleys after signs in its girls’ and boys’ toy departments were altered to reflect particular types of toys, rather than who should be playing with them.
Blue signs marked ‘Boys’ previously directed visitors to the fifth floor of its Regent Street flagship store to buy action and war-themed toys, with pink signs marked ‘Girls’ for the third floor, which sells dolls, arts and crafts toys.
Gender-neutral red and white signs now display toys according to category, with brand names displayed next to the relevant floor.
Laura Nelson, writer for the political blog Delilah, accused Hamleys of “gender apartheid ” in a post in October, and is claiming a campaign success. However, Hamleys claims that the rebranding is purely a result of refurbishment.
“There’s no reason why boys can’t do arts and crafts,” Nelson said. “Gender stereotypes in toys are highly influential and pervasive, and influence children’s and parents’ choices, aspirations and expectations.”
Posted in Department Stores, Toys Tagged Hamleys, Toys
Hamleys gets festive with bumper Christmas offers Monday, 5th December 2011
Deck the halls with Hamleys this year, as the historic toy retailer is set to reveal 12 offers to help Santa Claus in December.
Each offer will be emailed to Hamleys’ database in the run-up to Christmas. The first offer was on Lego and Hamleys offered discounts on the Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon, the Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts Express, the Lego Star Wars Naboo Starfighter, the Lego Star Wars Republic Frigate and the Lego Star Wars Battle of Naboo.
The second offer, launched today, discounts the 60cm Hamleys Caramel Bear from £50 to £30.
But Santa’s little helpers will have to be quick off the mark, as each offer is available for a ‘very, very limited time only’.
Posted in E-Commerce, Online retail, Toys Tagged hamleys, toys, entertainment, lego, christmas, december, retail, regent street, harry potter, hogwarts express
Hamleys plays dress up for October Wednesday, 12th October 2011
The world famous toy store will be spending this month in a fantasy dressing up box, as it takes it’s Let’s Play programme into autumn.
Young shoppers will be able to transform into princesses, knights in shining armour, witches and magicians thanks to Hamleys' Let’s Play Make Believe.
Hamleys' Enoch store in Glasgow will host Magic Workshops, Pumpkin Carving, Spooky Storytelling and Fairytale Princess Makeovers throughout October, asking all of its shoppers to dress up for the occasion by wearing their favourite costume.
Posted in Toys Tagged hamleys, toy, lets play make believe, enoch, centre, glasgow, let's play, dress up
Landsbanki has enough assets to fully cover Icesave debt Friday, 2nd September 2011
It has been reported that recoveries made from the bankrupt estate of Iceland's Landsbanki will cover UK and Dutch deposits in Icesave with surplus.
The approximate value of Landsbanki's asset portfolio, which includes retailers such as Iceland Foods and Hamleys, is £70 million more than the total sum of priority claims in the insolvency estate.
Updated information on the estimated value of the asset portfolio of Landsbanki Íslands hf. (LBI) as of 30 June 2011 were presented to the bank's creditors yesterday. According to a statement from the Resolution Committee of Landsbanki, some major achievements have been made in recovering assets in the second quarter. The estimated increase in the value of the bank's asset portfolio over the previous quarter amounts to over £243.3 million (ISK 45 billion). Measured in foreign currencies, the real increase over the past quarter is over £172.9 million (ISK 32 billion), with the greatest share of this difference due to exchange rate movements.
The estimated value of the bank's 67 per cent holding in the retail chain Iceland Foods was not adjusted during this period. However, the bank's stake, together with the 10 per cent holding of Glitnir hf., is in a joint sales process.
Landsbanki's exact valuation of it's stakes in Iceland and Hamleys is not yet known, however Icelandic weekly business paper Vidskiptabladid reported in May of this year that the Icelandic bank valued its stake in Iceland Foods at £348.6 million (ISK 64.5 billion) according to an update of the estate's shares for the first three months of 2011.
Considering that the total valuation of Landsbanki's stake in Iceland Foods is close to £540 million or (ISK 100 billion) which is far from the approximately £1.6 billion - £2.1 billion price tag that British media has previously reported.
If that estimation is accurate, Landsbanki will receive 3-4 times more for its shares than it currently has outlined in its accounts. The corresponding figure amounts to somewhere in the region of £1 billion - £1.4 billion.
Sources close to the Icelandic Government say that there is increased pressure on Landsbanki to sell it´s assets in the very near future so that the Icesave situation can be rectified.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged banking, finance, hamleys, iceland foods, icesave, landsbanki, News
My Retail Media Twivia winner announced Thursday, 25th August 2011
Thank-you to everyone who took part today in our first Twivia competition!
The winner, who was chosen at random via Random Line Picker was @michadaly, who tweeted us the correct answer of 20 new Hamleys stores in India by 2016.
Congratulations- £50 worth of Hamleys' vouchers will be making their way to you!
Posted in Toys Tagged competition, hamleys, my retail media, twitter, twivia
My Retail Media’s Twivia explained Thursday, 25th August 2011
To celebrate reaching 3,000 followers, My Retail Media is launching a monthly Twitter Trivia competition (yes, in true social media style we’re calling Twivia).
What better excuse do you need to get the kettle on and enter our quiz to win £50 in Hamleys vouchers?
All you need to do is find the answer to the following question within our blog. The answer is a number, and it must be the identical figure to the one My Retail Media details on our blog page.
The competition runs from 11:00 to 15:00 so look sharp!
This week’s question is as follows:
Hamleys announced it would be stepping up its Asian expansion. How many stores does the toyshop plan to have in India by 2016?
To enter, you must have added our twitter account @myretailmedia, and have retweeted the question. Then, simply DM us the answer. (Make sure you DM us or the rest of Twitter will see!) We will be adding back all accounts that retweet the competition in this time to ensure you can DM us properly- never fear!
The winner will be chosen at random at 15:30, and we will post the winner on our twitter page at 16:00. We will then contact you to make sure your shiny £50 Hamleys voucher finds its way as soon as possible.
GET TWEETING & GOOD LUCK
Posted in Toys Tagged hamley's toyshop, hamleys, my retail media, trivia, twitter
Hamleys accelerates growth in India Wednesday, 24th August 2011
The world famous toy store will begin a roll-out of at least 20 stores in India, two years earlier than initially planned.
Times may be hard for retailers in the West, but for the last few years, Asia’s growing wealth has been telling a different story. Now the continent’s third-largest economy, India is next on the hit list for retailers looking for growth away from the debt-stricken economies of Europe and the States.
Sudhir Pai, senior vice-president at Reliance Retail, Hamleys’ partner in India, said the group is looking to boost its presence in India two years earlier than originally planned, with twenty stores in the country by 2016.
Following the initial opening of Hamleys in Mumbai last year, the toy seller followed with a second in the southern city of Madras, and will is preparing for an outlet in Delhi by February 2012.
“We want to expand much faster than what was in our contractual arrangement because the response has been so encouraging,” Pai said, claiming that Hamleys’ Indian operation could soon be larger than the rest of the group. “All of our stores put together could end up being bigger than the franchisee.”
Up for discussion now are sites in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. Additional outlets in Mumbai and Delhi are also being considered.
Posted in Franchise & Expansion, Toys Tagged delhi, growth, hamleys, India, madras, Mumbai, profit, Reliance Retail, suhir pai
