Consumers are expected to spend 1.3% or £1.07bn more from June to August as a direct result of the UK’s two major events
• With both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics sweeping the nation this summer, overall retail sales are expected show a year on year increase of 3.7% from £82bn (June – [...] View more ›

This summer alone, Britons will be charged almost £1 million a day for exceeding baggage limits

• 55% of consumers that exceeded their excess baggage allowance in 2011 incurred charges, a total of 3.8 million people. On average, limits were exceeded by 3.5 kilos costing a total of £186 million or £48 each [...] View more ›

21% of parents admit they don’t spend any time teaching their kids to cook

• One in five parents (21%) claim that teaching their children to cook is not a valuable use of time, 19% feel kids don’t need to learn as they cook for them and 12% think there are more important [...] View more ›

Retailers in London will see the biggest hike with a 9% increase in Sunday retail spend, accounting for almost half (47%) of the country’s total increase

• Extending Sunday opening hours by up to four hours in the eight week Olympic period is predicted to increase retail spend by £189.8 million, a 4.2% hike [...] View more ›

Shopping on mobile devices is set to increase by 584% this year from just £0.7bn in 2010
•    Shopping on mobile devices is set to increase by 53% in the next 12 months hitting £4.5bn, making Brits the biggest mobile shoppers in Europe for the third year running followed by Germany (£2.7bn) and France (£1.9bn)
•    Last [...] View more ›

European online shoppers are expected to spend €14.6bn on mobile devices in 2012, up from €2.4bn in 2010
•    Shopping using mobile devices in Europe is set to increase by 62% in the next 12 months alone hitting €14.6bn. The biggest hikes will be in Switzerland (111%), Spain (73%) and France (71%)
•    For the third year [...] View more ›

The second phase of its site redevelopment following release of hotel pages

Monday 23rd January 2011: The second phase of Kelkoo Travel’s relaunch has been unveiled with the release of its flight website in the UK, which comes within just four months after the introduction of its hotel pages. The new-look flight site offers an easy-to-use [...] View more ›

TOTAL RETAIL SALES TO RISE BY JUST 1.8% OVER THE SAME PERIOD
Online retailing is one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. Worth €120bn in 2008, it grew by 67% to €200.52bn last year [1]. In 2011 e-commerce sales continued to perform strongly, increasing by 18% year-on-year and representing 7.8% of total retail sales across [...] View more ›

British spend represents almost a third of all online goods sold in Europe[1]
Online retailing is one of the fastest growing markets in the UK. Worth £33.96bn in 2008, it grew by 48% to £50.34bn last year [1]. In 2011 e-commerce sales continued to perform strongly, increasing by 14% year-on-year and representing 12% of total UK [...] View more ›

Disappointed holidaymakers have made an average of £2.2 million worth of claims every month for the past year 

• In total almost 74,000 travellers have been impacted by failing travel companies this year, racking up a total bill of £26 million in claims and repatriation costs[1]
• This is not as disastrous as 2010 when [...] View more ›