LONDON (Reuters) - Shop Direct, the privately owned British online department store retailer, that trades as Littlewoods, Very and isme, reported its first pretax profit for 10 years as the firm ...

Online shopping giant Shop Direct has deployed software to automate business processes without eating into the IT department’s busy timetable. The online retailer, which has over 10 million registered ...

Curran, who joins on December 16, will work across Shop Direct’s fascias including Very, Littlewoods and Isme, reporting into group retail and strategy director Gareth Jones. Drapers understands ...

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - British retailer Shop Direct said it had handed outsourcing firm Serco a 430 million pound ($694 million) contract to run its customer services, in a deal which could lead to ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Private equity funds managed by Blackstone announce the acquisition of Ideal Shopping Direct (“ISD”), a leading independent multi-channel retailer, from Inflexion. ISD ...

In 2009, Shop Direct – which owns popular brands including Littlewoods and Very.co.uk - was distributing some 30 million catalogues to customers around the UK. Four short years later, after having ...

Shop Direct is investing “significant” cash in developing personalisation software as it optimises how it uses its data. The online retailer wants to improve both the way it uses its current crop of ...

Shop Direct has signed a contract to voice security and authentication technology from Pindrop to detect fraud on phone calls. Pindrop’s audio “fingerprinting” technology will be used to help the ...