{"id":372,"date":"2008-05-20T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/20\/empirestores-end-of-an-era\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T08:10:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T13:10:40","slug":"empirestores-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.affiliateprogramadvice.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/20\/empirestores-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"EmpireStores End of an era?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this announcement from awin to all EmpireStores affiliates and I must confess to being a little sad about the news. I have known EmpireStores for ever and a day and the lovely affiliate manager that used to work there. Agency side to the catalogue industry has been in decline for a number of years now and competition is fierce. I dont know what else to say apart from this decision can’t have been easy.<\/p>\n

Wishing you all the best and as they say as one door closes another opens.
\n– Jess<\/p>\n

Empirestores<\/a> regrets that it is to cease trading (under the current ownership of Redcats UK) in July 2008 following declining year on year sales. Redcats UK says that the business has been hit by the rapid growth of value retailers on the High Street as well as rival online firms and the credit squeeze. The decline in sales has generated losses with no prospects of recovery in a declining agency market. The closure has resulted in up to 850 job losses.
\nRedcats UK is to concentrate focus on developing its direct home shopping operations through its existing brands of La Redoute, VertBaudet and Daxon as well as new online projects.
\nDetails of the closure:<\/p>\n

Please remove your affiliate links by the 30th of May
\nSales will be reported until the end of the cookie period and hence the 13th of June
\nThe 13th of June will be the closing day of the account
\nCommissions will be validated until the 30th of June
\nThe final affiliate payment will be made on the 16th of July<\/p>\n

Empirestores and Affiliate Window thank you very much for making it such a successful affiliate programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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