Retail news: Ideal Shopping in strategy rethink

Ideal Shopping Direct, the live TV home-shopping operator, is to overhaul an initiative offering free airtime to brands, after it failed to attract key national players following its launch last year.

Chief executive Paul Wright said the VIP Club, intended to showcase FMCG products in a one-hour programme and then send out free samples to viewers, had not appealed to major companies such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble.

Wright said he would now target marketing directors at one-to-one meetings to promote the channel as a direct route to consumers, focusing on the advantages of demonstrating the products on TV over traditional advertising.

Ideal Shopping Direct is watched in 2m homes each week.

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