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From beauty brands and secret messages to retail sales and Fashinnovation, discover this and more with the retail industry's need-to-know headlines this week.

 

Beauty brands almost double at Very

Etailer Very has bet on beauty since the beginning of the pandemic, increasing its brands by 94%.

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Moonpig launches heat-reactive Valentine’s Day cards hiding secret messages

For Valentine’s Day, this year Moonpig has released a new limited edition range of heat-reactive cards. The range of six exclusive cards features heat-reactive technology, which reveals a secret message once body heat is applied. The hidden messages that are certain to get pulses racing disappear once cooled down, so that the cards can remain on display and are perfectly PG when you need them to be.

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Dunelm posts strong sales and record profit

Homewares retailer Dunelm has posted strong first half growth with total sales up 10.6%  year-on-year to £795.6 million and 36% up on pre-pandemic levels two years ago.

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Retail sales rebound in January

Total UK retail sales increased by 11.9% in January against a decline of -1.3% in January 2021, when non-essential retail stores were closed due to Lockdown 3, but total retail sales grew 7.5% compared to pre-pandemic January 2020.

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Fashinnovation 2022: Metaverse, unethical brands and outside competition

Unethical brands, metaverse, multidimensional marketing, but also competition increasingly pushed by artists, fashion designers and musicians: the fashion industry is changing very fast and the protagonists had their say during the sixth edition of Fashioninnovation worldwide talks, which took place in New York on February 3.

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Amazon Prime UK membership fee could soon rise to over £90 for 15m Brits

Amazon Prime membership fee could soon rise to over £90, despite record UK sales of £23.6 billion. Amazon had a bumper year in the UK, with sales jumping from £19.6 billion in 2020 to £23.6 billion last year but that won’t halt a rise of at least 17% in the cost of Prime membership, if it follows the lead of Amazon US, says the home delivery expert ParcelHero.

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