LONDON (Reuters) – British retailers saw a huge increase in overseas Internet shoppers in the fourth quarter of 2013, reflecting investment in their online businesses, industry data showed on Tuesday. With UK household incomes stagnating, retailers are increasingly looking overseas to bolster revenues. The October to December quarter saw a 64 percent increase year-on-year in the amount of overseas consumers searching for UK retail brands on smartphones, with a 41 percent rise in the volume of searches by tablet computers, industry lobby group the British Retail Consortium and Google said. …
Comments are closed.
