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New Hires for Slurp.co.uk in Fine Wine and IT
Today Slurp.co.uk announced two new hires to further strengthen its Fine Wines and IT departments. Charlie Newman joins the Fine Wines group from Laithwaites as our second dedicated fine wines account manager. Reporting to Head of Fine Wines Alan Macdonald, Charlie will be tasked with continuing the development of our rapidly expanding slurpfinewines.com department. Charlie brings with him an excellent sales pedigree and some well established contracts within the industry. Slurp had a unbelievable response to its recent advertisement for new salespeople and Charlie was chosen from more than 100 applicants for this role. But in the end it…...
New Slurp.co.uk iPhone App Boasts World's Largest Wine List
Today Slurp.co.uk - the UK's fastest growing online wine retailer - launched its long awaited iPhone App. With almost 6,000 wines, beers and spirits listed for sale, we believe the App is the largest such iPhone App in the world! Download the App here: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id384133393?mt=8 The Slurp iPhone App is more than just a listing of wines. Customers are also able to:
Use the innovative Online Sommelier to pair wine with any food or occasion whilst on the go. This will be a huge help for people in restaurants needing a little help with a …...
Slurp.co.uk Receives a String of Award Nominations for 2010
We believe that Slurp.co.uk is the most exciting thing in UK wine and spirit retailing. But we are a bit biased! So it is great to see our hard work being recognised in a string of retail award nominations for 2010. Slurp.co.uk has been short-listed for no less than four different awards to be handed out this Autumn:
* Decanter ‘Innovation of the Year Award’ 2010 * Decanter ‘Small Regional Wine Merchant of the Year Award’ 2010 * International Wine Challenge 'Direct Merchant of the Year' 2010 * International Wine Challenge 'Specialist Merchant of the Year for New Zealand'…...
Slurp Wine Announces a Stunning Quarter of Growth
Building on an extremely rapid start to the year, Slurp.co.uk has continued its momentum in Q2 2010. Sales sustained their nosebleed trajectory with another 2000+% quarterly growth rate year on year. And as with Q1, on a sequential basis Q2 showed almost a 100% quarter over quarter growth rate.
In Q2 2010 sales growth was driven by a number of factors. The most important was the continued development of the Slurp Fine Wines division under the strong leadership of Alan Macdonald. The division continues to win important new clients who are attracted to Slurp Fine Wines' web-friendly service and Alan's…...
A Visit to an Unusual Neighbour
You would never know by looking at Nasmyth Street in Hammersmith that there was anything out of the ordinary there. It’s a quiet, sunny (whilst I was there, at any rate), tree lined, residential Hammersmith street, peppered with children riding tricycles and the odd dog-walker. Look a little more closely though and you’ll spot the small unassuming white warehouse, nestling between the ends of two terraces, discreet, but there, if you’re looking for it.
Inside, it’s a world away from what lies in the hazy post-school, street scene outside – an office come laboratory come distillery; glass jars, copper funnels,…...
Slurp Sees Further Upside in Fine Wine Prices
In a research report released today SlurpFineWines.com Investment Research argues that we are currently only halfway through a new bull market for fine wine prices which could see prices rise another 170%. Comparing the current bull market with the one from 1993 – 1997, Slurp predicts further substantial upside (followed by a period of consolidation). With hindsight, Slurp argues that the 20% correction in Jun-Dec 2008 will be seen as a small speed bump in a long term bull market which started in 2004. According to the indices provided by Liv-ex, fine wine prices have now recovered all their…...
Slurp.co.uk Forges Ahead with Three New Hires
Today Slurp.co.uk announced the addition of three new full time personnel to strengthen its London-based sales and logistics operation. A new position of Head of Retail Sales has been awarded to Tom Chamberlain. Tom will head up Slurp’s direct to consumer non-fine wines sales business. A product specialist, Tom has made wine in Oregon and in the Hunter Valley, Australia and is currently completing his WSET Diploma. Tom will report jointly to Managing and Logistics Directors Jeremy Howard and Nico Sunnucks. Emily Acha Derrington joins Slurp.co.uk as our new Product Manager. Emily has a strong background in the industry…...
Wine Beats Russell Stocks as Liquid Investment in Swiss Study
This piece by Nikolaj Gammeltoft appeared on Bloomberg today. It is quite interesting and should certainly be read by anyone even considering investing in fine wine:April 13 (Bloomberg) -- For the ultimate in liquid investments, try top-quality wine, which has outperformed one benchmark U.S. stock index for 13 years and withstood two recessions.That’s the conclusion of Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, two Switzerland-based economists who compared wine prices with the Russell 3000 Index between January 1996 and January 2009. The researchers studied more than 400,000 prices on regularly traded wines from the 13-year period, which covers two bull markets…...
Slurp.co.uk Announces another Record Breaking Quarter
Following on from a stunning sales performance over Christmas, Slurp.co.uk is able to announce today that its dramatic sales growth continued in Quarter 1 of 2010. Sales on a year over year basis were up over 2,000% and rose almost 100% over the traditionally strong last quarter of 2009. During the quarter the range of wines also increased substantially to over 4,600 different products. Slurp added spirits and specialist beers to its range.
The new ‘Slurp Express’ service offering next day mixed case delivery at no additional cost has been a major driver of growth. 665 different lines are now…...
Slurp Keeps Prices Unchanged post UK Budget
Slurp.co.uk today announced that it would absorb the increase in wine, beer and spirits duty announced in this year's UK Budget. Managing Director Dr Jeremy Howard said: "Despite recent price falls at the lower end of the market, for most of our customers the relentless decline in Sterling has meant ever higher prices on quality wines. Our aim is to continue to provide non mass-produced / supermarket wines to our customers at the best possible prices. Wine is expensive enough already, and so we will ensure that Mr Darling is paid from our margins and not from our customers'…...
Slurp Enjoys Extremely Strong Start to Year – Is Very Optimistic on 2010 Prospects
Today Slurp.co.uk – the UK’s fastest growing online wine company – announced that January sales had continued the excellent pre-Christmas momentum, increasing over 4,000% yoy (over January 2009) and rising 25.6% from an already buoyant December. The year on year comparison was flattered by the extremely difficult trading conditions at the start of 2009, but the increase over December underlines the very strong secular grow currently driving the company. The failure of First Quench and the closure of most Wine Rack and Threshers shops underlines the rapidly changing retail landscape, and the pressure on high overhead outlets. Slurp’s Managing…...
An Apology and 1,000 Cork Points for Some Slurp Customers
Today, due to a fault on our automated emailer, we sent out duplicate copies of an email offer. For any company this is clearly a distressing event, but for one that prides itself on its technology it is about as distressing as it gets! We tried to make some reparation by crediting all affecting customers' accounts with 1,000 Cork (loyalty) Points immediately, and Managing Director Jeremy Howard is in the process of contacting each affected customer with a personal apology. The free bottle of wine on us probably doesn't make up for the annoyance caused but we wanted to…...
Excessive Web Traffic Causes Outage at Slurp.co.uk
We regret that some disruption was caused to our webservers on Friday 29th January and into the weekend, which resulted in www.slurp.co.uk being down for a period and then running very slowly while we recovered.
What happened was that the Daily Mail wrote up the amazing perform of the Nyetimber Cuvee Classic 2003 English sparkling wine at the Bollicine del Mondo contest in Verona - where it beat rivals Louis Roederer, Bollinger, Pommery, Gosset, Joseph Perrier and Devaux in a blind tasting. This caused a huge surge in traffic (and orders) for this product just at the time we sent…...
British Venture Capital Assn names Slurp in Top 200 Companies for 2009
The BVCA is the umbrella organisation for the UK's venture capital industry. This week it named Slurp.co.uk as one its Hottest Venture Capital Backed Companies of 2009. For the full report and list of companies see here. Slurp is on page 145....
Slurp.co.uk Sales Boosted as Online Wine Sales Surge over Christmas
Slurp.co.uk – the UK’s fastest growing online wine retailer with almost 4,000 products – today announced that Q4 (Oct to Dec) 2009 sales had jumped 460% from the same period in 2008, with the number of customer orders more than tripling. Almost 50% of the Q4 2009 total came in the first three weeks of December, in a last minute stampede of online wine and Champagne buying. As well as benefitting from slightly looser purse strings on luxury items like fine wine this Christmas, Slurp also received a lot of online orders from people unable or unwilling to…...
