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E-commerce

PR and Marketing Strategy

Customer relationships in e-commerce: Why it’s important to avoid broken promises

Keeping promises between e-retailers and customers seems like a simple concept but more than you'd think get it wrong: here's how to avoid joining the naughty list.

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Peter Jones: ‘Fantastic products are worthless if the customer isn’t able to get their hands on them quickly’

Dragons Den star talks to Growth Business about the launch of his latest e-commerce venture Brandpath.

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Shopa secures £11m from Octopus and Notion

Social shopping site sees one of the most successful Series A rounds for a UK start-up.

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thefashion.com raises seven figures to fund expansion

A London-based e-commerce site that aggregates fashion portals into one online destination has raised $1.7 million in seed funding.

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Black-box recorder for e-commerce bags venture capital investment

User Replay has closed a fundraising aimed at financing the opening of a US office as well as future development for its technology platform.

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Social start-up LoyaltyLion becomes first investment by former ASOS exec

James Hart, the first employee at clothing e-commerce business ASOS, has made his maiden angel investment and backed LoyaltyLion.

Private equity

E-commerce deal from private equity firm Frost Brooks

Progress which has seen The Parcel Monkey Group hit 300,000 registered users has led the delivery service to raise equity capital as part of a further growth push.

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SwiftKey and Skimlinks executives join investors at e-commerce start-up Ometria

To coincide with raising an additional $500,000 worth of equity investment, Ometria has recruited Huddle co-founder Ali Mitchell to its board.

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Shazam investor DN Capital launches new mobile and e-commerce fund

DN Capital has raised $200 million for its new GVC III fund, three times the amount it banked the last time the firm went out fundraising.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mark Pearson sells his Markco Media business to Monitise

Young British entrepreneur Mark Pearson has cashed in on his marketing content business by exiting to Monitise.

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Discount e-commerce business MandM Direct to set up shop on AIM

Fashion, sports and outdoor clothing and apparel retailer MandM Direct is hoping to build on recent full-year revenues of £118.9 million by floating on the London Stock Exchange.

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Designer flash sale site SecretSales.com closes new VC deal

A £4.5 million venture capital funding round has been closed by SecretSales.com, as the business looks to ramp up customer acquisition.