Table of Contents
Analyst Comment – Market Regulations
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- Market regulations
- Regulations in France
- So what’s special about Sunday?
- But what to customers think?
- Getting round the bans
- Objections from retailers
- Regulations in general
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, 2018-19
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- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2018-19
- Inflation
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2018-19
- Figure 4: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2018-19
Launch Activity and Innovations
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- Finland: S Group’s new counter calculates the consumer's carbon footprint
- France: Carrefour Bio opens first store in Brussels
- Spain: Carrefour and Glovo to form delivery partnership
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- DIY retailing
- Furniture retailing
- Health & beauty retailing
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Co-ops
- UK: Co-op extends 'pay-in-aisle' to 30 stores
- Convenience stores
- UK: McColl’s reports a pre-tax loss
- UK: Simply Fresh launches pop-up food market in Solihull
- UK: Tesco to focus on Metro as it simplifies store operations
- Grocers
- Finland: Half year results for Kesko sees 0.8% sales growth
- France: Carrefour
- …selling stake in logistics real estate business
- …Carrefour and Spanish Glovo to form delivery partnership
- …Carrefour half-year results
- France: Casino Group
- …targets a maximum debt level of €1.5 billion
- …resells its activities in the Indian Ocean
- Germany: Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd to align sourcing of their private brands
- Italy: Conad sales grow 3.5%
- Ireland: JC Savage supermarket to be salvaged by Dunnes Stores takeover
- Netherlands: H1 results from Netherland-based Sligro
- Netherlands: Jumbo reports positive half year results
- Netherlands: Positive results for Netherland-based Jan Linders in FY2018
- Poland: Poland's Grupa Muszkieterów sees turnover up 5% in first half
- Spain: Carrefour Spain replaces plastic bags with cotton meshes
- Spain: Auchan Spain announces an increase in turnover of 1.4%
- Spain: Euromadi forecasts growth of 11% in 2019
- Sweden: Swedish Axfood reports strong Q2 growth
- UK: Asda uses 90,000 plastic bottles for car park resurfacing
- UK: Iceland:
- …generates £500,000 of in-store sales from mobile discount vouchers
- …trialling new plastic bag free concept
- UK: Lidl combats plastic waste with its new reusable bags for fruit and veg
- UK: M&S
- …incentivising reusable containers for food-to-go
- …unveils a new-look food hall
- …WHSmith ready to open its M&S Food concession in Darlington
- UK: Sainsbury
- …and Deliveroo partner up for delivery trial
- …scraps plastic bags for fruit and veg in reusable bag trial
- UK: Tesco
- …and YO! Sushi extend partnership
- …to quit using plastic bags for grocery deliveries
- UK: Waitrose
- …closes 7 stores culling 700 jobs
- …to extend ‘While You’re Away’ delivery trial
- …waves away plastic with new multi-coloured recycled trays
- Off-licences
- UK: Majestic Wine to be acquired by US investment firm Fortress
- Other food specialists
- UK: Greggs interims post a 14.7% rise in sales
- UK: Holland & Barrett launches on-to-go lunch range
- UK: Hotel Chocolat see palatable full year sales up by 14%
News Analysis – Clothing and footwear
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- France: Sonia Rykiel goes into court ordered liquidation
- Spain: Zeeman to operate 250 stores in Spain
- Sweden: Major shareholder Melby Gard makes bid for Sweden’s Kappahl
- UK: Arcadia rescue faces US legal challenge
- UK: Jobs axed as Boohoo acquires Karen Millen and Coast
- UK: Burberry
- …creates a collection from sustainable nylon
- …like-for-like sales rise by 4%
- UK: Jack Wills
- Sports Direct buys Jack Wills out of administration
- …Sports Direct seeks rent cuts for Jack Wills stores
- UK: Joules report soaring full-year profits
- UK: Julian Dunkerton ‘steadies ship’ after Superdry see plunging loss in profit
- UK: The last of Bonmarché’s shareholders sells to Philip Day
- UK: Next posts 4.3% increase in full price sales for H1
- UK: White Stuff profits slump from digital spend and discounting
- UK: £7 million raised for Sosander through sale of new shares
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Russell & Bromley to join the line-up at Covent Garden
- UK: Vans to occupy former Miss Selfridge flagship site
News Analysis – Mixed Goods
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- Department stores
- UK: Bluegem capital offloads Liberty in a £300 million deal
- UK: Debenhams
- …to launch new in-house brands
- …asks lenders for additional £50 million
- UK: John Lewis to launch new in-house menswear brand
- Multi-sector retailing
- France: LVMH to take a 10% share of Stella McCartney's fashion business
- Switzerland: Richemont sees revenue increase by 12%
- UK: B&M posts ‘record breaking’ sales
- UK: Flying Tiger halts UK store openings after profits plunge
- UK: Poundland outperforms the high street with reported revenue growth of 1.6%
News Analysis – Household Goods
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- DIY retailing
- France: 789 jobs to be cut due to store closures from Castorama and Brico Dépôt
- UK: Homebase saves Bathstore from administration
- UK: Travis Perkins
- …accelerates Wickes disposal plans
- …set to demerge Wickes
- Electrical retailing
- UK: Dixons Carphone launches AR experience
- Furniture retailing
- France: Miliboo publishes higher full-year results
- France: Vente-unique posts 10% growth in sales
- UK: After a strong trading performance DFS profits are on track
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Sales soar for Dunelm
News Analysis – Online
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- UK: Amazon set to open second Clicks & Mortar store in Cardiff
- UK: ASOS issues profit warning
- UK: Emma Mattress revenues grow to £18m
- UK: Eve Sleep posts 0.9% dip in half year results
- UK: Findel makes ‘solid start to the year’
- UK: Opumo receives investment from Scandi fund
- UK: Takeaway.com and Just Eat agree on merger terms
News Analysis – Other Retail
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- Health & beauty retailing
- France: Interparfums sales rise by 15.2% thanks to Coach and Montblanc
- France: L’Oreal disappoints with Q2 growth
- Italy: Sisley up 7.5% sell-in sales for first half of 2019
- UK: Boots trials reverse vending machines
- UK: Bodycare FY2018: modest growth and profit drop
- UK: Molton Brown’s debut in fragrances
- UK: Savers sees solid growth of 10.2% for FY2018
- Shopping centres
- UK: Hammerson hit by CVA’s and administrations
- UK: Intu seeks head office job cuts
- UK: Westfield’s UK income hit by retail CVAs
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Sports Direct
- …delays full-year results
- …announces release date of delayed full-year results
- …posts a £54.6m loss in full-year results
- Jewellers
- Greece: Damning deficits found in Folli Follies accounts
- UK: Watches of Switzerland recorded surging profits
- Miscellaneous Specialists
- France: French children’s product retailer Orchestra posts stable first quarter results
- Netherlands: Specsavers Netherlands sees a record turnover of €150m for FY2018
- UK: Hobbycraft's full-year profits surge
- UK: Mothercare seeks to offload UK arm following full-year losses
- UK: Pets at Home makes strong start to year
News Analysis – Economy
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- UK: BRC reports ‘weakest July on record’ for UK retailers
- UK: June retail sales up by 4.0%
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