How to Assess Your Digital Maturity
Digital maturity is a measure of an organisation’s ability to create true value through digital means. Digital maturity is not strictly confined to the technology a company uses. An organisation can have access to the most cutting-edge technology on the market, but if their employees don’t use it correctly, they cannot define themselves as truly […]
Is Fast Food Becoming a Healthy Sector for Investors?
Over the last few years, a swathe of new fast food brands have popped up. These new brands aim to cater to changing attitudes towards healthy eating and dietary choices. The traditional players in the fast food space, those widely perceived to offer ‘unhealthy’ meals, are beginning to alter their menus, too. Healthy choices seem […]
Challenges and trends for e-commerce
The changing landscape of e-commerce represents an exciting window of opportunities for innovation – however, new challenges and threats often rise at the same speed. Increasing conversion rates whilst improving your customers’ online shopping experience is the goal, but the pace is changing and customer needs are constantly evolving. With that in mind, we’ve put […]
Easy to be eco-friendly – why should investors care?
Last week, onefourzero published an article on growing demand and investment in the home automation sector. One area of home automation that consumers favoured were products that helped them save energy as well as money, such as smart meters. Today’s consumer is more environmentally conscious than ever before. Searches on Google for the term “eco-friendly” […]
Net Sentiment: Can social data explain the Wagamama phenomenon?
This week, the Financial Times revealed that popular casual dining chain Wagamama, valued at up to £750 million, could be sold as early as this summer. Launched in 1992, the chain has grown to over 130 restaurants in the UK, alongside more than 60 abroad. Last year saw sales grow by 8%, in stark contrast […]
Dashboard
onefourzero is proud to announce the launch of its latest investment consulting product – the ‘Dashboard’. What is it? A tool for Tracking brands and their competitors. The one-stop dashboard provides data display and top-line analysis of the digital market you are interested in, including marketing strategy, website/mobile effectiveness, audience movement, sentiment analysis, conversion metrics […]
Next Business Analysis: The Wolves are at the Door for Fashion Retail
In light of profit warnings and a share price decline of clothing retailer Next, CEO Lord Wolfson attributed the uninspiring performance to a general decline in consumer spending of fashion due to a shift towards more experiential consumption. We did an exploratory analysis to understand whether a shift in consumer spending is actually responsible for Next’s negative performance […]
Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa acquires Allegro, “Eastern Europe’s EBAY” for $3.25bn
Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa Team up for $3.25bn Allegro Deal Eastern Europe’s largest e-commerce platform has been bought by a group of private equity investors in a $3.25bn bet on the rise of internet retail in the continent’s emerging economies. The deal is another example of private equity firms teaming up for billion dollar […]
Could these companies’ downfall have been predicted had they paid closer attention?
Is it me or are there too many large commercial entities who are not diligent about their own diligence? Whilst commerce is fraught with danger and risk is unavoidable, risk appreciation and assessment can always be improved. Prevention is better than cure and the best cures are swift. Therefore, observing and staying on top of everything […]
Digital Due Diligence is the new, er, Due Diligence
I have one of those jobs where people ask me what I do, and I explain it, and then they still don’t really know what I do. Not because I don’t know what I do myself (well, depends on how early in the morning it is), but because it’s fairly intangible. Until you apply it […]
