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European Retail Sales
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- Key points
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- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales value growth, 2015-16
- Figure 3: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2015-16
- Inflation
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- Figure 4: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2015-16
- Figure 5: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2015-16
Headlines for the Month
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- Convenience stores
- Grocers
- DIY retailing
- Furniture retailing
- Home shopping
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Convenience stores
- Europe: Spar delivers to French campsites
- UK: Best-one trials value fascia to compete with the discounters
- UK: Booker sales rise 10%
- UK: Convenience store numbers grow 21%
- UK: My Local
- …enters administration
- …hires KPMG to explore options
- …close to collapse
- UK: Nisa returns to profit
- UK: The Co-op acquires six stores from My Local
- Grocers
- Belgium: Colruyt retail sales rise 4%
- Belgium: Delhaize sells pet food chain in Belgium
- Europe: Cora and Carrefour extend joint purchasing agreement
- Europe: E.Leclerc and Rewe create new alliance
- France: Leclerc installs 24 hour lockers
- Greece: Marinopoulos granted protection after filing for bankruptcy
- Italy: Carrefour launches new convenience store
- Italy: Conad invests in 88 store openings
- Italy: Simply launches online in Italy
- Netherlands: Albert Heijn launches new online initiatives
- Netherlands: Plus sales rise 4.3%
- Norway: NorgesGruppen trials online offering
- Poland: Eurocash eyes bid for Zabka
- Spain: Auchan Spain sales reach £4.6bn
- Spain: Carrefour
- …Express stores appear in more petrol stations across Spain
- …plots Spanish store acquisitions
- Spain: El Corte Inglés’ Hipercor stores to receive increased private label range
- Spain: Eroski fails to drive sales growth in 2015
- Sweden: ICA Group sells InkOne website
- UK: 10p supermarket pop-up set to launch permanently
- UK: Booths hosts beer ‘n’ BBQ night
- UK: Grocery sales fall 0.2%
- UK: Iceland sees like-for-likes slide but profits remain flat
- UK: Morrisons opens Doddle concessions in store
- UK: Ocado profits rise 5.7%
- UK: Sainsbury's
- …announces the closure of all Netto UK stores
- …finance chief John Rogers to take the reins at Home Retail
- …sends formal acquisition document to Home Retail
- …trials one hour delivery in Wandsworth
- UK: Tesco
- …confirms sale of Giraffe and Kipa
- …offloads Dobbies Garden Centres
- …to open pop-up wine bar in London
- UK: Waitrose to launch on British Corner Shop
- UK: Walmart's Head of China to take the helm at Asda
- Other food specialists
- UK: Holland & Barrett profits rise 12.2%
- UK: Majestic Wine group sales surge 41.3%
News Analysis - Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- Europe: H&M reveals 7% growth in group sales
- Spain: Inditex net sales rise 12%
- UK: Bhs
- …overseas business sold to Qataris
- …to receive second offer from Mike Ashley
- UK: Bonmarche
- …confirms CEO start date
- …revenues up 5.3%
- UK: Bravissimo to open at Liverpool ONE
- UK: Cambridge Satchel Company reports a £5.4m loss
- UK: Forever 21 reviews UK store portfolio
- UK: Jack Wills investor looks to sell
- UK: Joules retail sales rise 11%
- UK: Lipsy plots to become ‘new branded destination’
- UK: Mint Velvet opens first shopping centre store
- UK: Mr Porter expands with own-label launch
- UK: Mulberry reports “significant progress”
- UK: Oasis replatforms website
- UK: Primark delivers 7% growth
- UK: Reiss profits surge 52%
- UK: Store Twenty One
- …'considering its options'
- …enters CVA
- UK: Superdry increases focus on sportswear
- UK: Ted Baker sales rise 11.3%
- UK: White Stuff chooses Germany for local language site
- UK: Zara reports 8% rise in UK sales
- Footwear and accessories retailing
- UK: Aspinal of London partners with Cunard
- UK: Clarks profits tumble 65%
- UK: Shoe Zone announces board reshuffle
- UK: Shoon acquires foot clinic Shuropody
- Multi-sector retailing
- Netherlands: Hema Q1 sales rise 5.9%
- UK: Marks and Spencer general merchandise sales slide 8.9%
- UK: Poundland like-for-like sales slip 3.9%
- UK: Steinhoff
- …reconsidering Poundland acquisition
- …sets its sights on Poundland
- …ups bid in Poundland
- UK: Wilko achieves 15% surge in profits
- Department stores
- Ireland: John Lewis partners to sell homewares in Ireland
- UK: British Land sells Debenhams flagship
- UK: Debenhams’
- …like-for-like sales fall 0.2%
- …the front bidder for its Irish operations
- UK: John Lewis
- …rolls out visual search technology
- …to launch luxury ready-to-wear label
- UK: Selfridges takes ‘retail theatre’ to new heights
- DIY retailing
- Europe: Hornbach
- …sales rise 6.1%
- …turnover up over 5% for FY2015/16
- UK: Topps Tiles like-for-like sales rise 6.2%
- Electrical retailing
- UK: Dixons Carphone like-for-like sales rise 5%
- Belgium: JYSK to launch in Belgium with 50 stores
- France: Ikea trials 'Click & Roll' in France
- UK: Carpetright like-for-like sales up 2.8%
- UK: Dreams owner prepares for £400m sale
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Dunelm sales growth slows to 1.8%
- Home Shopping
- France: Amazon Prime launches in Paris
- Germany: Zalando
- …teams with Adidas to offer same-day delivery
- …unveils plans for Bread & Butter Berlin
- UK: Amazon
- …expands Dash offering and Fresh deliveries
- …plows ahead with 1,000 new job roles
- UK: Findel narrows losses in the year of Kitbag sale
- UK: Gear4Music enjoys continued strong European sales
- UK: Mr Porter expands with own-label launch
- UK: N Brown revenues dip 0.2%
- UK: Shop Direct
- …deputy chief executive to depart
- …working with TH_NK to update Very site
- Health & Beauty retailing
- UK: Sirin Labs opens Mayfair flagship store
- UK: Superdrug sales climb 5.4%
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: Blackwell’s appoints new customer service director
- UK: Hobbycraft sales up
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: JD Sports expects strong trading on the back of the Euros
- UK: Sports Direct reports a ‘disappointing’ year
- Garden centres
- UK: Dobbies new owners outline growth plans
- Shopping locations
- UK: Manchester Arndale plans £11 million redevelopment
- Economy
- UK: Food prices fall 0.8% in June
- UK: Retail footfall rises 0.3% in May
- UK: Retail sales grow 3.4% in May
Online Retailing – Europe, July 2016: Amazon
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- What we think
- Marketplace
- AWS
- Prime
- Food
- Where next?
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 6: Amazon.com Inc: Group financial performance, 2010/11-2014/15
- Retail offering
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