Table of Contents
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Key points
- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends, 2014/15
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- Figure 2: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC versus ONS, 2013-15
- John Lewis
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- Figure 3: John Lewis: Year-on-Year Growth, 2014-15
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 4: The income squeeze: Wages growth versus inflation, 2009-15
- Inflation
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, 2014-15
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Automotive Fuel Retailing
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- Summary
- Market size – Deflation holding back growth
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- Figure 6: Retail sales (including VAT/ duties), 2010-15
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- Figure 7: Retail sales (including VAT/ duties), 2015-20
- Volume growth positive for the first time in four years in 2014
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- Figure 8: Chained volume of automotive retail sales (reference year, 2011), Non-seasonally adjusted, 2005-14
- Fuel prices hit a low
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- Figure 9: Monthly change in consumer price inflation in fuels and lubricants, 2014-15
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- Figure 10: Annual change in consumer price inflation in fuels and lubricants, 2004-14
- Number of forecourts – Slight growth in numbers
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- Figure 11: Number of petrol forecourts, 2014-15
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- Figure 12: Number of forecourts operated by superstores, by retailer, 2014
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- Figure 13: Number of forecourts operated by superstores, by retailer, 2013 and 2014
- Growth in superstore petrol stations driven by convenience shopping
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- Figure 14: Regular petrol station convenience store shoppers, by age, February 2015
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Other food specialists
- Clothing retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- Department stores
- DIY retailing
- Furniture and homeware retailing
- Home shopping
- Economy
News Analysis – Food and Drink Retailing
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- Convenience stores
- UK: Booker sales up 1% in Q4
- UK: Scotmid and Seaton Valley announce merger
- Grocers
- UK: Aldi
- …becomes Britain’s sixth largest supermarket
- …plans more new stores than Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons combined
- …preparing for e-commerce trial
- …unveils £2.5m Easter campaign
- UK: Asda
- …and Decathlon announce partnership
- …to open first high street stores
- …unveils wedding collection
- UK: Co-operative Food
- …delivers ‘robust’ performance
- …staff to receive an 8.5% pay rise
- UK: Morrisons
- …full year sales down 4.9%
- …new chief cuts down senior management team
- …to stop using Intelligent Queue Management technology
- UK: Netto announces locations of two new stores
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …creates 480 digital jobs
- …looking to double its number of convenience stores
- …sales dip 0.4%
- UK: Tesco
- …appoints Savills
- …director Patrick Cescau leaves
- …introduces In Farm We Trust concession
- …takes sole ownership of 21 superstores
- UK: Waitrose ties up with Johnson Cleaners
- Other food specialists
- UK: Hotel Chocolat hails ‘best ever Easter’
- UK: Majestic Wine acquires Naked Wines
- UK: Naked Wines seeks investment to open first stores
- UK: Oddbins opens first beer-only shop
News Analysis – Non-food Retailing
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- Clothing and footwear retailing
- UK: Bank
- …former stores to be taken over
- …intellectual property put up for sale
- UK: Bonmarché has challenging fourth quarter
- UK: Burberry café to open at flagship store
- UK: Clarks
- …introduces wi-fi and tablets
- …opens refurbished Milton Keynes store
- UK: FG4 launches in the UK
- UK: French Connection sales fall 5.8% in 2014/15
- UK: Jimmy Choo like-for-likes grow 5.7%
- UK: Joules sales jump 21.3% thanks to international expansion
- UK: Moss Bros like-for-like sales rise 5.5%
- UK: Mulberry
- …announces new chief executive
- …full year sales edge up 1%
- UK: Ness attracts million pound investment
- UK: River Island opens new flagship store
- UK: Schuh opens new digital store concept
- UK: Signet like-for-like sales rise 7.5%
- UK: SuperGroup reveals strategy update
- UK: Ted Baker
- …grows revenues by 20.4%
- …makes a move into interior design
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: Argos to trial 3D printed jewellery
- UK: M&S posts improved performance in GM
- UK: Next sales rise 7.2%
- UK: Poundland
- …launches DIY range
- …proposed purchase of 99p Store under scrutiny
- Department stores
- UK: Bhs
- …sold to Retail Acquisitions
- …makes head office redundancies
- …new owner puts 52 stores under review
- UK: John Lewis
- …announces Philippines expansion
- …posts sales growth of 7.6%
- UK: TJ Hughes eyes Bhs and B&Q sites
- DIY retailing
- UK: Kingfisher ‘considering all options’
- UK: Kingfisher
- …acquisition of Mr Bricolage held up
- …sees sales and profits fall in 2014
- UK: Topps Tiles
- …sales increase 6.4% in first half of the year.
- …to launch new hybrid boutique format
- UK: Wickes’ owner Travis Perkins sets out expansion plans
- Electrical goods retailing
- UK: BrightHouse unveils ambitious growth plans
- UK: Dixons Carphone and Google team up on new shop-in-shop
- Furniture and homeware retailing
- UK: DFS sales rise 10.5%
- UK: Dunelm sales rise 10.7%
- UK: Habitat opens new concept store
- UK: ScS sales up 14.5% in first results since flotation
- Home shopping
- UK: Achica makes a loss of £7m
- UK: Ao World chairman sells £10m stake
- UK: Asos
- …posts strong sales growth despite profit decline
- …sales up 19%
- UK: Boohoo sales rise 22%
- UK: Doddle launches ‘click-on-campus’ service
- UK: DPD to launch click-and-collect initiative
- UK: Ebay and Argos tie up for ‘click and drop’
- UK: Home Retail Group has weak end to the year
- UK: Findel reports a 3.7% rise in sales
- UK: Missguided
- …launches physical concession in the US
- …signs new fulfilment deal
- UK: N Brown issues second profit warning
- UK: New try-before-you-buy service for online shoppers to launch
- UK: Net-a-Porter and Yoox to merge
- UK: Ocado Group sales rise 19.2%
- UK: Retailers given the go ahead for click-and-collect
- UK: Shop Direct launches personalised home pages
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Evans Cycles attracts interest from Cotswold Outdoor owner
- Health and beauty retailing
- UK: Well acquires Care4u
- Automotive retailing
- UK: Halfords appoints new chief executive
- Gaming retailing
- UK: Game Digital
- …reports declining sales and profits
- …launches online marketplace
- Books and cards retailing
- UK: Card Factory sales up 8.1%
- Shopping locations
- UK: Hammerson almost doubles profits
- UK: Meadowhall to undergo £50m refit
- UK: Sheffield set for £480m regeneration
- UK: Westfield introduces Future Fashion
- Economy
- UK: Deflation in the grocery market reaches new low
- UK: Retail sales rise 2.9% in February
- UK: Retail sales up 1.7% in February
- UK: Shop prices fall 2.1% in March
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