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)
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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 ›
• The busiest high street shopping day this year is expected to be Saturday 17th December when 11 million Christmas consumers are set to spend £1.05bn[1] (£128 each)[2], just over £1.5 million per minute[3]
• On average, each UK household is predicted to spend a total of £682 this Christmas, £508 of which will [...] View more ›
Almost 23% of all Christmas purchases will be made online, 11% of which will be on a mobile device
European household budgets set to rise marginally this Christmas, with families forecast to spend €605 on average, an increase of 1.4% on last year[1]
This Christmas, European households are expected to spend on average €344 on gifts, €187 [...] View more ›
More than 25% of all Christmas purchases will be made online, 12% of which will be on a mobile device
UK household budgets set to rise marginally this Christmas, with families forecast to spend £682 on average, an increase of 1% on last year[1]
This Christmas, UK households are expected to spend on average £437 on gifts, [...] View more ›
Internet sales are forecast to soar by 17.3% this year – a stark contrast to the anticipated 0.5% fall in offline sales
Christmas retail sales 2011 are expected to grow at 1.4% to reach a total of €319.10bn compared to €314.80bn in 2010[2]
Despite relatively low growth overall, European online sales are predicted to grow by 17.3% [...] View more ›