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European Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: Year on year retail sales value growth, 2013-14
- Figure 4: Major European economies: Year on year retail sales volume growth, 2013-14
- Inflation
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- Figure 5: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2013-14
- Figure 6: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2013-14
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Footwear retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- Department stores
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Home shopping
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Co-ops
- UK: Co-op
- …reveal results of a ‘disastrous’ year
- …to lower prices on essential items
- …to sell its British Farms
- Convenience stores
- UK: Nisa to trial new franchise strategy
- Grocers
- Belgium: Delhaize Group report 2.8% rise in sales in Q1
- Denmark: Dansk Supermarked to launch e-receipts
- France: Auchan to face legal action over the Rana Plaza collapse
- France: Carrefour
- …Q1 sales
- …to raise CEO age barrier
- France: Dia could sell French operations
- Germany: Edeka sales up 3.1% in 2013
- Germany: Kaiser’s Tengelmann to close stores
- Germany: Kaufland to invest in East German operations
- Germany: Schwarz Group revenue up 10% in 2013
- Portugal: Jerónimo Martins sales rise 5.6% in Q1
- Russian Federation: Dixy sales up 4% in Q1
- Russian Federation: Magnit sales up 25% in Q1
- Spain: DIA introduce share incentive plan
- Spain: Eroski open new fresh produce logistics centre
- Spain: Profits rise 4% for El Corte Inglés’ supermarkets
- UK: Asda begins same day click and collect
- UK: Grocery market growth hits 11 year low
- UK: Morrisons
- …sales fall 4.2% in first quarter
- …reduces prices across the board as it seeks to regain momentum
- …to extend online service to London
- UK: Sainsbury’s sales rise 2.8%
- UK: Tesco
- …full year profits down
- …to expand its non-core offering
- …slashes prices
- …to launch own-brand smartphone
- UK: Waitrose
- …sales up 6.5% in Q1
- …to launch Saturday morning cookery show
- Specialist food shops
- UK: Greggs sales up 4% in Q1
- UK: Thorntons sales fall 7.6% in Q3
- Off-licences
- UK: Conviviality to acquire rival
- UK: Oddbins plans rapid expansion under new ownership
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- France: Hermès sales rise 14.7% in Q1
- France: Primark opens second store in Paris
- Germany: Strenesse files for insolvency
- Italy: Benetton sales fall 10%
- Italy: Prada warns growth in 2014 will be ‘single-digit’
- Sweden: H&M announce Alexander Wang collaboration
- UK: Bershka looks to offload flagship
- UK: Blue Inc chairman stands down
- UK: Bonmarché sales up 10.4%
- UK: Burberry revenue up 19%
- UK: Fat Face confirms London listing
- UK: French Connection sales up 11%
- UK: Lord Wolfson giving away his £4m bonus
- UK: Whistles to launch debut menswear collection
- Footwear retailing
- Netherlands: Macintosh Retail Group sales up 3.8% in Q1
- UK: Kurt Geiger completes management buyout
- UK: Shoe Zone to float within the next month
- Mixed goods retailing
- Netherlands: Action to expand in German and French markets
- UK: B&M Bargains to refinance £585m of loans
- UK: Poundland sales up 13.3%
- Multi-sector retailing
- Finland: Stockman Group sales fall 7.6% in Q1
- UK: Argos to launch new ‘digital’ store in Manchester
- UK: Home Retail sales climb 3% to £5.66 billion
- UK: M&S Q4 results
- Department stores
- Ireland: The Weston Group await decision on Arnotts bid
- Latvia: Debenhams enters Latvian market
- UK: Debenhams sales up 1.5%
- UK: House of Fraser
- …chairman to step down
- …sales up 3.6%
- …Sanpower confirms House of Fraser deal
- UK: John Lewis to launch first range of smart TVs
- UK: Selfridges Birmingham to be redeveloped
- DIY retailing
- Austria: bauMax to reduce store numbers
- Sweden: Clas Ohlson to open first store outside Europe
- UK: Travis Perkins sales up 15.6% in Q1
- Electrical retailing
- Europe: Samsung opens first stand-alone stores
- Germany: Media-Saturn
- …CEO resigns
- …to refocus around online channel
- UK: BrightHouse chairman to step down
- UK: Carphone Warehouse sales increase 2.3% in the fourth quarter
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Fast Retailing considering Cath Kidston bid
- Home shopping
- Finland: Verkkokauppa.com sales up 6% in Q1
- France: QVC to expand into France
- Germany: Zalando revenue up 35% in Q1
- Germany: Further strikes at Amazon Germany
- UK: Ao.com announces 40% growth in sales
- UK: Amazon and Twitter launch digital shopping partnership
- UK: Barratts re-launches with new website
- UK: Marks and Spencer targeting improved online profitability
- UK: N Brown reports operating profits up 4.7%
- UK: Sit-Up falls into administration
- Books and stationery retailing
- UK: WHSmith
- …to open further retail franchises
- …first half pre-tax profit up, like-for-like sales down
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: JD Sports reports 5.7% rise in sales
- UK: Sports Direct
- …sales up 10.3% in Q4
- …to launch selling on credit
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- UK: Bids for Kiddicare expected by the end of April
- UK: Mothercare Q4 sales dip
- Economy
- UK: Retail sales fall in March
Department Stores Europe
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- Marks & Spencer
- What we think
- Where next?
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 7: Marks & Spencer, UK like-for-like growth, 2012/13, 2013/14
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- Figure 8: Marks & Spencer: Group financial performance, 2008/09-2013/14
- Figure 9: Marks & Spencer store portfolio, September 2013
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- Figure 10: Marks & Spencer: Estimated sales area breakdown, September 2013
- Figure 11: Marks & Spencer: Outlet data, 2008/09-2013/14
- Retail offering
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