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European Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 1: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales value growth, 2013-14
- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2013-14
- Inflation
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2013-14
- Figure 4: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2013-14
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Furniture and homeware retailing
- Home shopping
- Optical goods retailing
News Analysis – Food & Drink
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- Co-ops
- UK: Co-operative Group
- …appoints chairman
- …appoints new chief financial officer
- Convenience stores
- UK: Bestway Group reveal full-year results
- UK: Budgens to phase out SuperValu range
- UK: McColl’s sales and profits rise in 2014
- UK: Simply Fresh announces expansion plans
- Grocers
- Belgium: Delhaize group makes good progress in the US
- Europe: Ahold sales grow 7.9% in Q4
- France: Auchan
- …and Système U deepen sourcing partnership
- …revenues rise 14.7%
- France: Carrefour
- …considers bringing back the ED banner
- …profits up 6.7%
- France: Intermarché turnover reaches €40.1bn
- Germany: Aldi Süd to extend opening hours
- Germany: Edeka’s acquisition of Tengelmann may be blocked
- Germany: Kaufland interested in Kaiser’s Tengelmann stores
- Germany: Metro Q1 sales fall 2.2%
- Netherlands: Albert Heijn rolls out mobile self-scanning to stores
- Spain: Dia considers expansion into the UK
- Spain: Lidl plans €200m investment in Spain
- Spain: Mercadona sales increase 2%
- Switzerland: Coop Schweiz increases turnover by 1.7%
- UK: Aldi eyeing two new distribution centres
- UK: Asda
- …acquires standalone petrol stations
- …Q4 like-for-like sales fall 2.6%
- UK: Lidl teams up with Michelin-starred chef
- UK: Morrisons CEO
- …to stand down early
- …CEO to receive bumper pay off
- …close to appointing new chief executive
- …appoints new CEO
- …lowers price on 130 items
- …to sell three stores for £100m
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …to launch its first click-and-collect service
- …trials electronic price tags
- UK: Tesco
- …announces one-to-one online beauty consultation service
- …appoints new chairman
- …chief of new food experiences departs
- …makes further board changes
- …to cut up to 10,000 jobs
- …to pay £20,000 to towns affected by store cutbacks
- Other food and drink specialists
- Germany: Hawesko acquired by Tocos
- UK: Greggs sales up 5.5%
- UK: Majestic Wine chief executive steps down
- UK: Oddbins opens first beer-only shop
- UK: Thorntons half-year sales decline 9.0%
- UK: Whole Food sales top £100m in the UK
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- Europe: Primark expects sales to rise 16% in the first half of the year
- Germany: Billionaire buys German motorcycle apparel retailer
- Italy: Prada sales down 1% in 2014
- Netherlands: Topshop opens flagship store in Amsterdam
- UK: Bank confirms 20 stores facing closure
- UK: BHS managing director leaving for senior role at Tesco
- UK: Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group sales increase 6.2%
- UK: La Martina opens its first UK flagship outlet
- UK: Monsoon chief executive departs company
- UK: New Look
- …appoints advisors as it considers IPO
- …signs for east Oxford Street flagship
- …like-for-like sales fall 1.7%
- UK: New retailer FG4 to launch in the UK
- UK: Nike to launch first women’s only store in the UK
- UK: Oasis opens refurbished London flagship store
- UK: SuperGroup chief financial officer to leave company
- UK: Valentino to open West End flagship
- Multi-sector retailing
- Europe: TJX Europe sales increase 6%
- UK: M&S
- …announces first film partnership
- …to offer discounted gift cards as dividend payments
- UK: Poundland can no longer claim everything is £1
- Department stores
- Ireland: Dunnes Stores employees vote for industrial action
- UK: Bhs gains interest from former director
- UK: House of Fraser
- …chief executive John King to step down
- …to ask for discount from suppliers through new scheme
- DIY retailing
- France: Mr Bricolage sales fall in 2014
- Netherlands: Inter Gamma sales edge up 0.6%
- UK: Wickes revenues increase 8.8%
- Electrical retailing
- France: Darty sales grow 2.4% in Q3
- France: Fnac sales remain flat in 2014
- Ireland: Carphone Warehouse Ireland back in black
- Ireland: Harvey Norman revenues rise 4%
- UK: BrightHouse revenues up 4.4%
- Music, video and book retailing
- Netherlands: Bax-shop plans expansion into the UK
- UK: Foyles makes full year loss
- UK: Game acquires Multiplay
- Furniture and homeware retailing
- Germany: Ikea outlines expansion plans for Germany
- UK: Carpetright founder’s son to launch flooring retailer
- UK: DFS
- …announces small city store format
- …sets share price
- UK: Dreams returns to profit in 2014
- UK: Dunelm
- …founder buys stake in Morrisons
- …half-year revenues up 14%
- UK: Ikea to launch wireless charging furniture
- UK: MFI founder Noel Lister passes away
- UK: The Range opens its 100th store
- UK: PerfectHome fined for ‘aggressive and misleading trading practices’
- Home shopping
- Germany: Zalando
- …eyes continued revenue growth of 20-25%
- …has profitable 2014
- UK: Amazon
- …Prime advert banned
- …suffers website outages
- UK: Ao.com issues profit warning
- UK: Ocado Group
- …sales rise 19.2%
- …lines up £26m potential bonuses
- UK: Shop Direct’s new brand Very Exclusive launches
- UK: WorldStores receives investment from Goldman Sachs
- Health and beauty retailing
- UK: Bestway to rebrand Co-operative Pharmacies
- UK: Boots director of stores to step down
- UK: Lush posts 8% rise in sales
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Europe: ASICS Europe sales up 13%
- UK: Rolling Luggage acquired by Samsonite
- UK: Sports Direct
- …sales rise 2.6%
- …to offer vouchers to offset click-and-collect cost
- UK: Wiggle launches new brand identity
- Optical goods retailing
- Germany: MyOptique Group acquires Netzoptiker
- Netherlands: GrandVision valued at €5bn
- Shopping locations
- UK: Hammerson almost doubles profits
- UK: Intu profits rise 64.8%
- UK: London Luton Airport to double retail space
- UK: PayPal partners with Shell for mobile fuel payment
- Economy
- France: French Sunday trading laws to be relaxed
- UK: Grocery market grows by 1.1%
- UK: Retail footfall declines 1.2% in January
- UK: Retail sales rise 2.6% in January
- UK: Retail sales up 1.7% in February
- UK: Shop prices continue to fall in February
- UK: UK retail sales edge up 0.2% in January
Fnac
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- What we think
- Trying to crack the music streaming market
- Revamped product offering
- Innovative scheme to give consumers access to the latest technology
- Stores driving omni-channel sales
- New express delivery service
- Company background
- Company performance
- Mixed performance in 2014
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- Figure 5: Fnac: Group financial performance, 2009-14
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- Figure 6: Fnac: Outlet data, 2009-14
- Retail offering
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