Table of Contents
Analyst’s Comment
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- Property: Warning signs for out-of-town parks
- Getting recession in perspective
- Store closures
- Where?
- Out-of-town
Headlines for February
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- Food retailers
- Clothing and footwear retailers
- Mixed goods
- Electricals
- Homewares
- Miscellaneous
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends, 2008
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- Figure 2: Non-seasonally adjusted % value change on previous year, 2008
- Early indications for January
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- Figure 3: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2007/08
- Figure 4: John Lewis: Year-on-year growth, H2 2008/09
- December – the final reckoning
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- Figure 5: Trading statements: Christmas 2008
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 6: RPI vs Wage rate growth, 2007-08
- Inflation has begun to fall back
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- Figure 7: Annual percentage change in Retail Price Index for selected product groups, Aug 2007-Dec 2008
- 2009
Sector Focus – Food Retailers
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 8: Food retailers, sales trends, 1998-2008
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- Figure 9: Food retailers as % of all retail sales, 1997-2008
- Subsectors
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- Figure 10: Breakdown of food retailers’ sales by sub-sector, 2004-08
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 11: Indices of retail prices for key product categories, 2004-08
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 12: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 2003-08 (Q3)
- Figure 13: Food retailers’ sales relative to all spending on food and drink, 2000-08
- Food retailers
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- Figure 14: Food retailers: Leading retailers’ share of food retailers’ sales, 2007/08
Executive Appointments
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- DSGi names new chairman
- Habitat appoints group chief executive
- Harrods chief executive leaves
- Moss Bros chief executive to leave
- Tesco appoints McIlwee as finance director
Advertising News
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- New campaigns
- B&Q ends Olympic sponsorship
- Carpetright to invest in ad campaign
- Waitrose becomes sponsor of Smooth Classics
- Account gains and losses
- John Lewis appoints Adam & Eve to handle its £20 million adverting account
Advertising Expenditure
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- Figure 15: Total advertising expenditure by all advertisers (£M), Nov 2004-Nov 2008
- Figure 16: Total advertising expenditure by all retail advertisers (£M), Nov 2004-Nov 2008
- Use of media
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- Figure 17: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (£m), Nov 2004-Nov 2008
- Figure 18: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (%), Nov 2007-Nov 2008
- Top 25 retail advertisers
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- Figure 19: Top 25 retailers by adspend (£), Oct 2008-Nov 2008
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The Month in UK Retailing
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- Grocers
- Asda pledges to create 7,000 jobs
- Iceland sales surge 16%
- Morrisons
- …enjoys market-beating Christmas sales
- …wades into supermarket price war
- Somerfield reports strong Christmas trading
- Spar UK reveals fruitful festive period
- Tesco
- …sees LFLs rise 2.5%
- …urges suppliers to cut prices
- Waitrose to create more than 2,500 jobs
- Off-licences
- Thresher owner shuts 100 stores
- Clothing retailing
- Austin Reed announces Viyella deal
- Burberry reports LFL drop
- Jacques Vert LFLs drop 5.4%
- Mosaic puts Shoe Studio up for sale
- Matalan reports LFLs increase
- Monsoon FY profits up 12%
- New Look
- …confirms Netherlands expansion
- …posts FY loss
- Primark sales rise 18% in Q1
- Footwear retailing
- Barratts and Priceless shoes slip into administration
- Stylo assesses options after suspending shares
- Mixed goods retailing
- Argos to withdraw from India
- Mothercare meets expectations in Q3
- Multi-sector retailing
- Baugur
- … files for bankruptcy protection
- … assets eyed by investors
- M&S chairman reiterates Chinese expansion despite errors
- Home Retail Group acquires Chad Valley
- The White Company sees FY sales soar
- Department stores
- Beales reveals full-year loss
- Debenhams appoints Lazard to review capital structure
- John Lewis expansion plans delayed
- DIY retailing
- Homebase LFLs decline
- Topps Tiles suffers sales drop
- Electrical retailing
- Carphone Warehouse sees LFLs rise
- DSGi
- …reports 10% LFL drop
- …mulls rights issue
- Empire Direct falls into administration
- Kesa Electricals
- …sees sales slide 5.5% over Christmas
- …instructs suppliers to pay for shop floor displays
- Music and video goods retailing
- Game Group sees FY profits ahead of expectations
- HMV group sales up 3%
- Zavvi management makes offer for the company
- Carpet retailing
- Allied Carpets in talks with Hilco over sale
- Carpetright reveals further LFL decline in Q3
- Furniture retailing
- Land of Leather
- …falls into administration
- …closes 33 stores
- Smallbone secures £5.9m financing package
- Sofa Workshop
- …bought out by founder
- …slides into administration
- Home shopping
- Adili sees festive sales rocket
- Amazon posts Q4 profit increase
- Asos sees sales surge 118%
- Flying Brands suffers drop in LFLs
- Grattan unveils "streamlining plans"
- Ideal Shopping enjoys better-than-expected Christmas sales
- Shop Direct Group
- …to lay off 1,150 people
- …to relaunch Woolworths online
- Health and beauty retailing
- Alliance Boots
- …reports 11% sales boost
- …to merge with D&A
- Book and stationery retailing
- Clinton Cards reveals poor Christmas results
- WH Smith maintains margins despite 5% drop in sales
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- JJB Sports
- …posts loss after poor Christmas sales
- …to pay £8.3m for loan deferment
- …chief suspended
- …looks to place lifestyle division in administration
- Jewellers
- Aurum calls in Ernst & Young to review business
- Toys and games retailing
- Games Workshop swings to £3m H1 profit
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Halfords suffers festive sales drop
- Pets at Home LFLs up 10%
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