Catshanghai

I’ve just been checking out Indochino’s online tailoring website.

Indochino is a Canadian company with offices in Vancouver and Shanghai. It runs a website that sells made to measure suits over the Internet for as little as $199, which can be a great bargain if you don’t mind waiting for your suit to to arrive from [...]

Taobao is a Chinese online auction service. Think of it as Ebay for China. My Chinese is far too limited comfortably to navigate the site enough to be able to buy things, but Taobao is a good site to go to find out how much things cost in China.
Simply enter the desired item and poll [...]

I have just finished reading Boo Hoo, which is Ernst Malmsten’s frank and entertaining account about the dramatic rise and fall of the fashion e-tailer called Boo.com.
Boo was started by three young Swedish entrepreneurs in 1998 (Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander, Patrik Hedelin). They devised a lofty project to build a stylish and global E-commerce site [...]

I spoke about this Webcredible report a few weeks ago when I read that Marks and Spencer had topped the poll of most useable e-commerce websites among high street retailers.
I have finally read the report and I have to say that it is the most entertaining white paper I have looked at and I am [...]

This Guardian article shows that Marks and Spencer’s have bounced back to profits of £1 billion last enjoyed in 1997. Success was attributed to new innovative marketing campaigns, a successful restrcutring under Stuart Rose and new look shops.
They had big problems as they failed to compete with cheaper more modern high street competitors leading to [...]

This is a story from the BBC saying that the Marks and Spencer’s site tops a rank of user friendly websites among high street shops. I find this pretty amazing considering that they used to arrogantly avoid any advertising at all, trading on their exisitng reputation to be the dominant UK retailer. After ten years [...]