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.
Wishing you all the best and as they say as one door closes another opens.
- Jess
Empirestores 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...