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Amazon promotes John Boumphrey to UK country manager

Online retail giant Amazon has named vice president of fashion, John Boumphrey as the new boss of its UK operations. Boumphrey joined Amazon nine years ago as director of media in the UK, before taking over the role of vice president of Amazon Fashion Europe, where he launched new fashion brands and programmes, including Prime Wardrobe,...

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Amazon fastest growing retail brand on social media

Online retail giant Amazon has been named as one of the retail industry's ‘fastest growing social media’ brands, according to the latest Retail Social Media Benchmark results from eDigitalResearch. Amazon topped both the Facebook and Twitter social media ranks, with the online retailer gaining more than 1.2 million new followers on their Twitter...

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Amazon celebrating birthday with Prime Day sale

Amazon is celebrating its 20th birthday on July 15 with a Prime Day sale, which the online retailer states will feature more deals than Black Friday, exclusively for its Prime members. New and existing Prime members will be able to shop thousands of “lightening deals," with six of the popular ‘deals of the day’ receiving unlimited fast, free...