BUILD AND MARKET YOUR SHOPIFY STORE
We help e-commerce brands maximise growth opportunities
Blog
Welcome to our blog — your go-to hub for expert insights, practical tips, and the latest trends in eCommerce, design, and digital strategy. Whether you're scaling your Shopify store or exploring fresh ideas, you'll find inspiration and guidance right here.
Checked 19 September 2026. Cleaning has the thinnest open market data of the eight sectors we cover, so every figure carries its source and status, and the gaps are stated rather than filled.
Key Takeaways
No complete open UK market value exists. Euromonitor reports 1% volume and 2% value gr...
Key Takeaways
The strongest Shopify stores make choosing easier before they try to make the product look exciting.
Subscription businesses connect delivery frequency to actual consumption rather than defaulting everyone to one month.
Product pages work better when technical information is av...
Checked 19 September 2026. Every figure carries its source and what it measures, because coffee mixes consumption, retail, hospitality and commodity data more freely than most sectors.
Key Takeaways
The UK drinks approximately 98 million cups of coffee a day, roughly 35.8 billion a year at t...
Checked 19 September 2026. Supplement data has weaker sourcing than most sectors, so every figure is labelled with its origin, and secondary reporting of panel data is identified as such.
Key Takeaways
UK vitamins, minerals and supplements were valued at around £1.5 billion in 2023, growing...
Key Takeaways
Not On The High Street is a curated UK marketplace for small brands: you apply to join, NOTHS acts as your commercial agent, and the contract of sale is between you and the customer.
Sellers must be registered and trading in the UK, pass identity and bank checks, hold at least £1...
Checked 19 September 2026. Every rate below is UK specific and carries that date. Payment pricing changes more often than almost anything else on a Shopify store, so this article is reviewed quarterly. It is general information rather than payments advice.
Key Takeaways
Shopify charges its ow...
Checked 19 September 2026. Birth data covers England and Wales rather than the whole UK, and where no robust open UK figure exists we say so rather than substituting an estimate.
Key Takeaways
585,396 live births were recorded in England and Wales in 2025, the lowest annual number since 1977...
Key Takeaways
Amazon is a marketplace where you rent space beside other sellers; Shopify is the platform for your own store, where you control the brand, the customer relationship and the data.
Amazon UK charges £25 a month excluding VAT on the Professional plan, or 75p per item on the Individ...
Key Takeaways
The European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882, has applied through national laws since 28 June 2025 and covers ecommerce services sold to consumers.
UK Shopify stores selling to EU consumers can be in scope; microenterprises providing services, with fewer than 10 employ...
Checked 19 September 2026. Every figure carries its source and date, and two widely quoted mobile statistics turn out to be several years old.
Key Takeaways
Mobile carried 61.5% of UK online holiday revenue in November and December 2025, worth £16.5 billion and up 14.1% on the previous year...