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Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Key points
- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends, 2013-14
- Figure 2: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2013-14
- John Lewis
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- Figure 3: John Lewis: Year-on-year growth, 2014
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 4: The income squeeze: Wages growth vs inflation, 2009-14
- Inflation
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, 2013-14
- Looking forward
Sector Focus: Electrical Goods Retailing
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- Executive summary
- 2014 is a year of big-ticket growth
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- Figure 6: Segmentation of spending on electrical/electronic goods, 2013
- Figure 7: Year-on-year growth in consumer spending, by category, Q1 and Q2 2014
- Specialists sales recover in 2014
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- Figure 8: Retail sales (including VAT), 2009-14
- Focusing on audio-visual
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- Figure 9: Consumer spending on audio-visual products (including VAT), 2009-13
- Figure 10: The consumer: What extra money is spent on – home electronics/home entertainment systems, January 2013-October 2014
- Market shares
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- Figure 11: Market shares: Leading specialist and non-specialist retailers, 2012 and 2013
- The Dixons-Carphone merger
Headlines for the Month
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- Convenience stores
- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- DIY retailing
- Music, game and photography retailing
- Home and furniture retailing
- Home shopping
News Analysis: Food and Drink
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- Co-ops
- UK: Co-operative
- …launches campaign to reduce food waste
- …recruits new regional acquisitions manager
- Convenience stores
- UK: Booker Group revenues lift 1.9%
- UK: Musgrave to jettison worst-performing Londis stores
- UK: Nisa own brand sales increase 53%
- Grocers
- UK: Aldi launches organic range
- UK: Asda faces legal battle over equal pay
- UK: Booths plans store openings as profits rise
- UK: Lidl launches menswear range
- UK: Morrisons
- …increases prices on ‘I’m Cheaper’ lines
- …Q3 sales fall 3.6%
- …to open three test ‘lab’ stores
- UK: Netto returns to Leeds
- UK: Sainsbury's
- …announces partnership with footballer Daniel Sturridge
- …halves Nectar reward points
- …to cut back on store openings
- UK: Tesco
- …Company Secretary Jonathon Lloyd resigns
- …considers possible replacements for Chairman Richard Broadbent
- …looking to spin off banking arm
- …profits fall by 91.9%
- …suspends three more executives
- …to be investigated by the Serious Fraud Office
- UK: Waitrose
- …sales rise 6.8%, Kantar data shows
- …to stock Anya Hindmarch-designed cereal boxes
- Other food specialists
- UK: Thorntons Q1 sales down 11.9%
- Home shopping
- UK: Ocado
- …launches Scan & Shop app
- …partners with Channel 4 for cookery programme
- UK: Waitrose
- …appoints Director of eCommerce
- …Cellar now available for click and collect
- …click-and-collect locker trial begins
- …to launch Hiku home scanner
- Economy
- UK: ONS say UK retail sales grow 1.3% in September
- UK: Shop price deflation increases to 1.9%
- UK: UK retail sales down 2.1% in September, according to BRC
News Analysis: Non-Food
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- Clothing retailing
- UK: All Saints halves pre-tax losses
- UK: Burberry revenues reach £1.1bn
- UK: Mulberry retail sales fall by 9%
- UK: Next sales grow 5.4% in Q3
- UK: Primark profits increase 29%
- UK: SuperGroup
- …appoints Euan Sutherland as chief executive
- …warns on profits
- UK: Topshop launches streetwear brand with Beyoncé
- UK: Whistles sales up 15%
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Foot Locker CEO Ken Hicks retires
- UK: Kurt Geiger sales up 13%
- UK: Moda in Pelle receives £3.5m to fund growth
- UK: Office owners consider sale
- UK: Schuh sales and profits drop
- UK: Shoe Zone expects revenues of £172.5m
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: 99p stores sales grow 8.5%
- UK: Argos
- …launches £10m marketing campaign
- …launches interactive game on station screens
- UK: Home Bargains turnover increases 21%
- UK: Home Retail Group posts sales growth of 3%
- UK: Marks & Spencer UK sales up 1%
- UK: The Original Factory Shop sees profits fall by £6m
- UK: WH Smith revenues down 2%
- UK: Wilko to make head office job cuts
- Department stores
- UK: Debenhams sales grow 1.7% but profits dip
- UK: Harrods posts 11% rise in revenues
- UK: House of Fraser to release television campaign this Christmas
- UK: John Lewis opens first dedicated in-store opticians
- UK: Liberty launches loyalty app with iBeacon technology
- UK: Morleys Stores acquires Camp Hopson
- UK: Selfridges
- …announces record profits
- …launches HC LuxSpa space in store
- DIY retailing
- UK: B&Q focuses on digital offering
- UK: Homebase and UKTV Gold team up for Christmas campaign
- Music, game and photography retailing
- UK: Game
- …appeal against rent ruling rejected
- …sales surge 31%
- UK: Jessops
- …opens a new 'immersive experience' flagship store
- …returns to profit
- UK: Photobox acquires Spanish equivalent Hofmann
- UK: Richer Sounds profits grow by 14%
- UK: The Science Museum to open pop-up shop in Bluewater
- Carpet retailing
- UK: Carpetright
- …announce the retirement of Lord Harris
- …UK sales up 5.7%
- Home and furniture retailing
- UK: Ikea UK sales increase 11.3%
- UK: Lords of Notting Hill buys London hardware store
- UK: Pets at Home grows revenues by 10.2%
- UK: Primary Capital exploring Paperchase sale
- UK: Robert Dyas to launch first ever TV ad campaign
- UK: Travis Perkins posts sales growth of 6.9%
- UK: Wolseley considers Better Bathrooms bid
- Home shopping
- UK: Amazon
- …launches same-day delivery service
- …predicting a record number of Black Friday shoppers
- …to recruit 13,000 workers this Christmas
- UK: ASOS profits fall 14%
- UK: Boohoo.com
- …launches pop-up shop in New York
- …sales up 31%
- UK: Etsy to open pop-up store
- UK: Jigsaw appoints head of online trading
- UK: John Lewis opens first click and commute store
- UK: Mulberry launches click-and-collect
- UK: Poundshop.com merges with Hereforapound.com
- UK: Rakuten launches UK website
- UK: Shop Direct
- …appoints Gareth Jones as Deputy Chief Executive
- …bets big on Black Friday
- …sales growth driven by Very
- UK: Wiggle revenues increase 19%
- Beauty retailing
- UK: Clinique opens interactive pop-up shop
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Chain Reaction Cycles' profits rise to £4.8m
- UK: Go Outdoors sales grow to £172m
- UK: Halfords half-year sales up 6.8%
- UK: Sports Direct forced to clarify ‘zero-hour’ contracts
- Economy
- UK: ONS say UK retail sales grow 1.3% in September
- UK: Shop price deflation increases to 1.9%
- UK: UK retail sales down 2.1% in September, according to BRC
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