REDHILL, England, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueBridge One, a leading UK provider of on-demand business solutions and
NetSuite EMEA Solution Provider of the Year for 2007, has reported that its
NetSuite e-commerce customers experienced record sales growth in December
2007, compared with the same period a year ago.
Research by e-commerce analysts Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG)
(http://www.imrg.org/)indicates that internet shopping over Christmas helped
push total UK online sales up by 75% to GBP53bn during 2007.
BlueBridge One's e-tailers showed a similar trend, with one company,
Justoffbase, reporting a sales increase of over 150% for December 2007
compared to the same time period in 2006.
"It is very pleasing to note that so many of our customers experienced
such good trading results in the lead-up to Christmas," said Jon Ryan,
Managing Director, BlueBridge One. "For many of our customers, this is a make
or break trading period."
Some of the NetSuite e-commerce users who reported rapid e-commerce
growth include:
Winebox (http://www.winebox.co.uk), a major supplier of gift and transit
packaging to the drinks, deli and hamper trade in the UK and Ireland. The
number of web orders increased 67% between December 2006 and December 2007.
The December figures represent a 50% increase in revenue. November web orders
were up 53% in 2007, also an increase in revenue of nearly 50% on November
2006.
"Our NetSuite application helped us cope with an increase in sales in
terms of order processing and management, and is an invaluable tool in our
marketing, because it identifies target groups and hits them with specific
e-mail campaigns," said Managing Director Tim Wilkinson.
Winebox's new website is hosted by NetSuite, and Mr Wilkinson says it is
a vast improvement on the previous solution used by Winebox.
"It is so much easier to navigate - our customers really like it and
comment on it," he said. "This site will form a very important part of our
marketing and sales in the future as we intend to try and drive more and more
sales through the site. We would not have been able to effectively do this
with the old site. The ability for us to maintain our site in-house with
NetSuite is fantastic and a very big plus."
Justoffbase (http://www.justoffbase.co.uk) an online tool and equipment
store, and NetSuite users since 2003, reports that December 2007 sales
figures were up 159% compared to the same period last year.
Tim James-Parker, Partner of Justoffbase, credits the NetSuite
application with helping his staff of only four process nearly 2500 web
orders in December alone. The company has had over one million unique
visitors to its NetSuite powered web store.
Ashridge Trees (http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk) is a supplier of hedging
and hedge plants, trees, roses, fruit trees and soft fruit. Overall Christmas
2007 sales were up 31% on the previous year.
Julian de Bosdari, Managing Director of Ashridge Trees, said that his
staff could not have handled the volume of business without using NetSuite.
"Our Web-based business has grown 87% this year, while turnover has more than
doubled in the same period," he said.
BlueBridge One's assistance during the busy period was invaluable. "They
are always extremely accessible and once again proved it was an excellent
decision for us to have purchased our NetSuite licences through them," said
Mr De Bosdari.
Replying to this commendation, Ryan said: "Working closely with our
customers to ensure that they experience minimum disruption during busy
trading periods has always been important to us. The fact that customers were
able to trade with little disruption even though volumes were significantly
higher is a vindication of the scalability of the NetSuite's integrated
application and a major reason for us recommending it as a solution of choice
to our customers."
About BlueBridge One
BlueBridge One is a leading provider of integrated on-demand business
solutions - including software, professional services, training and support.
Our goal is to provide sophisticated integrated enterprise solutions without
the complexity and associated cost to high growth small and medium size
businesses. Putting our clients' needs first, we continue to abide by our
mission statement which is to deliver value-adding business solutions to
small and medium size organisations by leveraging innovative technology and
sound business principles. BlueBridge One is an accredited partner of
NetSuite Inc. and was the leading NetSuite EMEA solution provider for 2004,
2005, 2006 and 2007.
PR contact:
Val Proctor
BlueBridge One
Tel: +44-(0)7762-629385
Email: vproctor@bluebridgeone.co.uk
BlueBridge One
PR contact: Val Proctor, BlueBridge One, Tel: +44-(0)7762-629385, Email: vproctor@bluebridgeone.co.uk
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