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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…...
