By John Glenday

Britain’s embattled retailers are receiving some welcome reprieve from declining sales courtesy of the burgeoning smartphone market, which is contributing to a spike in online product searches, according to the latest figures to be published by the British Retail Consortium and Google.

They show that clothing-related search terms have jumped 54 per cent over the first three months of the year, an effect further enhanced by a 10 per cent increase in international searches for British products.

This effect was mirrored by UK consumers who also upped the number of searches they made for foreign brands.

Peter Fitzgerald, retail director at Google, said: Read full story ›

Source: The Drum