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UK Retail Sales Rise On Food As Black Friday Falls Short

UK retail sales rebounded last month, fuelled by higher food spending as Black Friday sales failed to tempt enough British shoppers to open their wallets f...

Cdiscount Takes In €43 Million On Black Friday

French e-commerce website Cdiscount reported €43 million in business volumes during last week’s Black Friday shopping event. The sales r...

Online Sales Boost UK Black Friday As Retail Stores Languish

Black Friday is making headway with bargain-hunting UK consumers, but their £3 billion pounds in spending is doing nothing to help Britain’s tr...

With Expectations Low, Retailers See Victory On Black Friday

Bricks-and-mortar retailers did enough things right on Black Friday to consider the event a success, even if the crowds of past years haven’t returne...

Black Friday Toolkit: What Retailers Need To Know

As ‘Black Friday’ kicks off in earnest at retailers around Europe, ESM gets the perspective from a number of leading industry experts about the...

German Black Friday Weekend To Add €1.7 Billion To Sales, HDE Says

The German retail sector is expected to take in an additional €1.7 billion in sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to trade analysts....

UK Gets Black Friday Boost As Retail Sales Unexpectedly Rise

U.K. retail sales unexpectedly rose in November as Black Friday discounts led consumers to splurge on electronics and household goods. The volume of goo...

Nielsen: Black Friday Impacted Non-Food Sales At UK Supermarkets

Nielsen has reported that Black Friday offers impacted non-food sales at UK supermarkets in the four-week period to 3 December, with money taken at the til...