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Lakeland serves up quick and easy payments

14 Feb 2012 09:53 GMT

The home of creative kitchenware to roll out contactless with Barclaycard and Visa Europe

Lakeland today announces that it is partnering with Barclaycard and Visa Europe to offer its customers contactless payments. From 30th June 2012, all 57 Lakeland stores will accept contactless card and mobile payments, allowing customers a faster and more convenient way to pay.

Richard Armstrong, head of UK payment acceptance at Barclaycard says:

“Lakeland’s decision to introduce contactless is great news for a pioneer in home shopping. It’s fantastic to see a well known brand such as Lakeland recognising the benefit that contactless technology can bring to their customers and their business. With their day to day banking already with Barclays, we’re delighted to be able to partner with Lakeland again to provide their customers with more payment options.”

Barclaycard and Barclays have been the leading forces behind contactless in the UK. Since 2007, they have, together, issued over 15 million contactless debit and credit cards and put contactless terminals in more than 56,000 retail outlets.

Gary Marshall, Director of Operations at Lakeland, says of the partnership:

“Like Barclaycard, Lakeland offers customers innovative products that make life easier, so working together made perfect sense. We have strong values of quality and customer care, as a result we’re committed to meeting our customers’ needs – from the items in our range to payments at the till.”

Notes to Editors:

About contactless

Contactless payment enables customers to make a purchase of £15 or less without the need to sign or enter a pin. Barclays and Barclaycard are leading the way in introducing contactless and there are now over 15.3 million contactless-enabled Barclaycards and Barclays debit cards, helping retailers reduce queuing and cut the cost of card transactions. In line with its history of providing customers with innovative payment forms, Barclaycard launched the UK’s first contactless mobile phone, in partnership with Orange, in May 2011.

Barclays and Barclaycard are the leading providers of contactless terminals in the UK and users can make contactless payments at over 56,000 stores across the UK including Prêt A Manger, Subway and EAT.

To find out more about Contactless payment, visit www.barclaycard.co.uk/contactless/ or www.Barclays.co.uk/contactless

About Lakeland

Lakeland offers an unrivalled collection of creative kitchenware, practical ideas for the home and garden, and inspiring gifts from all over the world. It sells innovative products that make life easier, are long-lasting and offer great value for money, with every item backed by unconditional guarantee. A family owned business, it was founded in the early 1960s, and has the same strong values of quality and customer care now as when it first started. It trades through 57 stores across the UK and six stores in the Middle East, as well as its home shopping business of website and catalogues.

About Visa Europe

At the end of 2011 there were over 30 million contactless Visa cards in circulation in Europe, from 54 issuers, with more than 150,000 acceptance outlets. 18 million of these cards and 75,000 of these acceptance outlets are in the UK.

There are expected to be 30 million contactless Visa cards in circulation in the UK by the end of 2012, with a total of 50 million across Europe.


Barclaycard, part of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, is a leading global payment business which helps consumers, retailers and businesses to make and accept payments flexibly, and to access short-term credit when needed.

The company is one of the pioneers of new forms of payments and is at the forefront of developing viable contactless and mobile payment schemes for today and cutting edge forms of payment for the future.  It also issues credit and charge cards to corporate customers and the UK Government.  Barclaycard partners with a wide range of organisations across the globe to offer their customers or members payment options and credit.

In addition to the UK, Barclaycard operates in the United States, Europe and Africa.

Key facts published in February 2013;

 

-          total number of Barclaycard customers: 28.8m

-          number of retailer/merchant relationships: 89,000

-          Total payments processed: £240bn