The Perfect Christmas Gift

A christmas breakdowr of stats love Santa ho ho ho.... Merry Christ mas! THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD IS FULL OF FUN, LAUGHTER, SCARED TURKEYS, POPPING SHIRT BUTTONS, SLEEPING GRANS, AND PEOPLE SPENDING MONEY. The UK spends 20 BILLION on Christmas with £1.6 Billion going on food and drink 25 MILLION XMAS PUDS 250 MILLION PINTS OF BEER 10 MILLION TURKEYS The average family spends £170 on their Christmas dinner Christmas costs the The average shopper spends £384 on presents average household £975 for the day CHRISTMAS TREES Number of real Christmas trees Number of fake Christmas trees sold in the U.S. each year - sold each year in the U.S. - 9.5 million. 33 million. Dec 30% 26 2.8 billion visits to retail sites in the UK in 372 million hours 113 million visits to spent shopping in December in the UK retail websites on December, 30% increase from 2011 Boxing Day, New British retail record 86% 52% 86% uplift in visits to retails 52% increase in footfall between 26 and 27 sites in 2012 due to sales starting on Christmas Eve December from 2011 UK U.S. 59% of respondents chose to carry out the majority of their Christmas shopping online 47% of respondents chose to carry out the majority of their Christmas shopping online 45% saying they did more shopping online than Christmas 2011 43% saying they did more shopping online than Christmas 2011 1.5 MILLION New items were listed for sale on eBay Boxing Day 2011 (Ah the Christmas spirit!) GET INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT If you're not yet using an SMS service in your business, we'd love to have a chat about how it might work for you. We were one of the first business SMS providers in the UK. Simply we promise to help you get the best possible results from SMS. We will provide your business with the highest quality SMS services at a very low cost. Visit us at www.textmarketer.co.uk text marketer We deliver. You save. Sources Stapleford resources http://www.staplefordresources.co.uk/files/files/Counting at_Christmas_Assembly pdf Experian Marketing Services http://www.experian.co.uk/blogs/latest-thinking/2013/01/online-retailing-top-stats-of-christmas-2012/ Econsultancy http://econsultancy.com/uk/reports/christmas-2012-online-shopping-survey-report Money Supermarket http://youngstapreneur.com/2012/12/10/christmas-statistics/