A multichannel strategy is bearing fruit at the John Lewis Partnership as both John Lewis and Waitrose report fast growth in online sales, the latest results from the John Lewis Partnership show.

The time customers can place an order for next-day delivery is getting steadily later at fashion retailer Next, which will introduce a 9pm cut off in October.

Find out how you can join us for a webinar that takes a look at getting transactional sites ready for the busy holiday shopping season ahead.

Debenhams today said multichannel sales were up by more than 80% after work to focus on integrating online and instore sales.

Boden, the internet and mail order fashion company, has reported a healthy rise in both profits and sales in its latest financial year. Regular customer numbers grew to more than a million in the course of the 12-month period.

Giles Delafeld, group ecommerce director at Blacks Leisure Group, is this week’s interviewee in our series of previews for our annual conference, Internet Retailing 2010.

Family fashion brand Joules has switched ecommerce platform provider to hybris as it lays the foundations for expansion, both overseas and online.

The White Company is to use marketing software from smartFocus to help it segment, analyse and plan its marketing campaigns.

MetaPack eCommerce Tracker predicts rise in online sales for Christmas starting now and staying strong till January.

Luxury UK fashion retailer LK Bennett has built on the success of its online and high street stores with the creation of a transactional iPhone app that is one of the first to feature PayPal’s Mobile Express Checkout. Paul Skeldon meets Erin Bishop, the company’s M-commerce Manager, to uncover the thinking behind the move – and to get a demo

High-end British fashion house LK Bennett has expanded it’s online and high street retail channels with a mobile commerce app that is the first for a UK retailer that makes use of PayPal’s Mobile Express Checkout on an app

Fashion retailer Laura Ashley saw total sales lifted by its ecommerce operation, it reported as it published its half-year results today.

A new report has found that almost half of UK retailers do not offer international delivery. And when it comes to those that do deliver worldwide, most orders have to be placed in a language that isn’t local to the shopper, the Snow Valley research found.

Liane Dietrich, MD of affiliate network LinkShare UK, looks at why more needs to be done to assure those brands investing online that they will receive return on investment.

The UK mobile advertising market looks set to finally come of age, with total revenues growing from £27.47 million this year, to £258.27 million by 2015, according to the latest data released by mobileSQUARED. The UK remains the largest mobile advertising market in Europe

Multichannel commerce software vendor hybris is looking to make it easier for retailers to deliver fully integrated cross-channel services – both b2c and b2b – with the launch of version 4.2 of its Multichannel Suite, which gives companies the ability to harness the latest technology in mobile commerce, as well as integration into physical stores and customer service channels

Supermarket Morrisons says it’s conducting an assessment of the opportunities from internet shopping. The update came at its half-year results briefing.

Some 32% of Argos sales now take place over the internet, according to its parent company Home Retail Group’s latest results. The company said its Check & Reserve service was behind strong online growth.

Infosys, the global IT and consulting firm, is sponsoring 10 full delegate passes to Internet Retailing 2010, our annual conference, held in London on October 12. Find out how to apply here.

The key to meeting the ever-growing m-commerce demands of the public is in getting the payment side of things made simple and secure, as well as simplifying all the regulatory and process hurdles that surround mobile and retail, says a study by mobile content and billing company Netsize