Christmas
Christmas is the most crucial trading period for the UK jewellery industry, driving significant sales across retail, wholesale, and e-commerce. For jewellers, manufacturers, and suppliers, understanding seasonal trends, consumer behaviour, and effective marketing strategies is essential to maximising opportunities during the festive period. Jewellery Focus provides extensive coverage on Christmas trading, including sales performance analysis, product trends, promotional campaigns, and insights into supply chain readiness. Our reporting helps trade professionals prepare for and capitalise on the busiest season of the year.
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Oct- 2014 -22 OctoberEconomy
More consumers than ever ‘willing to risk’ last minute Christmas order
The proportion of consumers who feel willing to risk placing an order online with less than a week to go before Christmas, has risen to 47%, for 2014, compared with 20% last year. The figures, published in the ‘eCustomerServiceIndex’ results from eDigitalResearch and IMRG, said 47% consumers will order gifts online…
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22 OctoberEditor's Blog
Why only reserve the click-and-collect frenzy for Christmas?
A report from The Times this week said that click-and-collect services were likely to account for £3bn worth of retail sales over the coming festive period, and that it would result in as many as three additional trips by consumers onto the high street, providing more opportunities for retailers to…
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21 OctoberEconomy
Christmas click-and-collect ‘to be worth £3bn’
The growing popularity of so called click-and-collect services from high street retailers is set to account for £3bn of sales over the upcoming festive season. A report published in the times said the figure would represent a 40% increase on similar purchasing habits during the same period last year. It…
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20 OctoberWatch Focus
Watch Shop launches click-and-collect service
Watch e-tailer Watch Shop has launched a new click-and-collect service in partnership with jewellery chain Goldsmiths. The new service will allow customers to purchase online and then collect their order from their nearest Goldsmiths’ store. A statement from Watch Shop said that launching the service around this time of the…
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20 OctoberEconomy
September retail footfall drops marginally
Footfall in September declined 0.9% compared to the same month last year, however it increased by 1.1% compared with last month. According to the BRC Springboard Footfall Monitor, footfall on the high street was down 0.6% on the previous year, while footfall in shopping centres down by 2.6%, its steepest…
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14 OctoberEconomy
Figures analysis: January to September hallmarking jumps 19%
Overall hallmarking figures have shown an increase of almost 19% in the first nine months of 2014, compared with the same period the previous year. So far the biggest year-on-year increases on a by-month basis were January and May, which increased 31% and 27% respectively compared with their corresponding time…
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14 OctoberEconomy
September retail sales ‘worst since December 2008’, Christmas outlook remains positive
UK retail sales in September were down 2.1% on a like-for-like basis compared with September 2013, when they had increased 0.7% on the preceding year. The new figures from the British Retail Consortium’s BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor found in total, sales were down 0.8%, against a 2.4% rise in September…
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8 OctoberEconomy
Shop prices remains deflationary for 17th month: BRC
Overall shop prices reported deflation for the seventeenth consecutive month, accelerating to 1.8% in September from 1.6% in August. This is according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index in which non-food industries (including clothing and footwear) reported acceleration in deflation of 3.2% in September from 2.9% in August. Helen Dickinson,…
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6 OctoberEconomy
Record 900 million orders for e-tailers, says IMRG
UK retailers are on course to dispatch a record 900 million orders or 930 million parcels in 2014, with 120 million projected for December alone. This is according to the latest August IMRG MetaPack Delivery Index which has predicted a record year for e-tailers. As predicted, online retail sales fell…
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Sep- 2014 -15 SeptemberEvents
Carat wins five new shop-in-shop partners at IJL
Carat exhibited three new collections at International Jewellery London in Olympia last week and has reported a “fantastic response”. In a statement, the firm said: “The collections have a modern twist of Fashion/ Fine and are beautifully crafted with CARAT*s trademark gemstones.” Collections are scheduled to launch just in time the…
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