Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- Management exodus at ASDA continues
Retail Review
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- Food and drink
- Tesco
- To launch music download service?
- FWD withdraws appeal
- To strengthen foothold in Japan
- To cut clothing prices?
- ASDA
- To develop store portfolio
- Opens George standalones
- Strong Q1
- Staying out of the c-store market
- Introduces specialty manager role
- Launches eyewear range
- Sainsbury’s
- Full-year profits rise
- King asserts authority
- To focus on improved service
- Online operation breaks even
- New store openings
- Buys 14 Morrisons stores
- Signs new designer team
- Launches Sainsbury’s at Bells Stores
- Morrisons
- Reopens converted stores
- Somerfield
- Sales boosted by refits
- Closes Kwik Save stores
- Acquires Scottish forecourt c-stores
- To open second franchised store
- The Co-operative Group
- Delivers strong results
- Food sales up
- Co-op Pharmacy sales up
- Current trading
- Acquires Conveco
- Londis
- Full-year results
- Recommends £60m Musgrave offer
- Costcutter
- Reports sales growth
- The Heart of England Co-operative Society
- Reports profit growth
- Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Co-op
- To introduce ‘Pay By Touch’
- Plymouth & South West Co-op
- Like-for-like sales increase
- Scotmid Co-op
- Enjoys strong sales
- Lincolnshire Co-operative
- Posts sales growth
- Planet Organic
- To open third store
- Le Riche
- To acquire Safeway stores?
- Lawrence Hunt
- Posts sales increase
- Greggs
- Makes “satisfactory start”
- Whittard of Chelsea
- Upbeat profit forecast
- Majestic Wine
- To expand to Ireland?
- Unwins
- Considering selling the business?
- Clothing and footwear
- Next
- Robust sales growth
- Arcadia
- Launching new collections
- Laura Ashley
- Returns to the black
- Home furnishings perform well
- Held back by fashion sales
- International operations
- Mail order and e-commerce
- Current trading
- Matalan
- Full-year profits halved
- Retail sales up
- New store openings
- Current trading
- Refurbishment plans
- To sell Lee Cooper?
- TK Maxx
- To launch standalone stores
- Opens new distribution centre
- Ethel Austin
- LDC considering offers
- Ciro Citterio
- Sold to Indorama Group
- Launching new brands
- River Island
- Opens store in Turkey
- USC
- Takeover bid?
- Mexx
- Expanding in the UK
- Jigsaw
- To open standalone accessories store?
- Monsoon
- Accessorize opens store in Stockholm
- Forminster
- To design products in-house
- TM Lewin
- To open womenswear flagship outlet
- Emma Somerset
- Refurbishing stores
- Barbour
- To open standalone womenswear store
- LVMH
- Reopens Louis Vuitton Sloane Street store
- Stylo
- Sees profits drop
- Barratts underperforms
- Shellys planning concessions
- Shoe Studio
- Considering opportunities for growth
- C&J Clark
- Reports profits growth
- LK Bennett
- To open store in Portsmouth
- Faith
- Expanding in Middle East
- MBO talks fail?
- Brantano
- UK division performs well
- Books and music
- Ottakar’s
- Reports sales growth
- HMV
- Trading update
- Virgin Megastores
- To invest £90m in the business
- Music Zone
- To launch bookstores
- Fopp
- Opens its largest store
- Toys and games
- Game Group
- Acquires Sanity stores
- Warner Bros Studio Stores
- Goes into administration
- Sports goods
- John David Group
- Full-year profits plunge
- Reviewing strategic options
- Store conversions
- Licence agreements
- Current trading
- Blacks Leisure
- Strong full-year results
- Store network expands
- Refurbishment programme continues
- Current trading
- Sports World
- To increase store portfolio
- adidas
- Signs for Oxford Circus flagship store?
- Rohan
- Opening new stores
- Jewellery
- Signet Group
- Like-for-like sales up
- Goldsmiths
- Stake acquired by Baugur
- Health and beauty
- Boots
- ‘Health and Beauty’ magazine on sale in stores
- The Body Shop
- Reports like-for-like sales decline
- UK like-for-like sales down
- Store ‘recycling’
- International operations
- Expansion plans
- Optical and photographic goods
- Dollond & Aitchison
- Sales ahead for Q1
- Electrical goods
- Dixons
- To close 106 stores…
- … following weak results
- Partners with Napster
- Furniture and household goods
- DFS
- Chairman ups offer
- ScS Upholstery
- Interim results impress
- KA International
- To expand in the UK
- Homestyle
- Sells Rosebys
- DIY
- Kingfisher
- To increase presence in Poland
- Miscellaneous
- Ann Summers
- Sales up for 2003/04
- On the move
- Burberry
- The Co-operative Group
- Faith
- Ipswich and Norwich Co-op
- Littlewoods
- Marks & Spencer
- Morrisons
- Next
- New Look
- Somerfield
Retail Market Analysis
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- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends: April 2003-April 2004
- Figure 2: Retail sales trends: April 2003-April 2004
- Breakdown of sales by sector
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- Figure 3: Retail sales value trends, by sector: April 2003-April 2004
- Figure 4: Retail sales volume trends: April 2003-April 2004
- Retail price inflation trends
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in retail price index for selected product groups: April 2003-April 2004
- Figure 6: Annual percentage change in retail price index for selected product groups: April 2003-April 2004
- The Footfall National Index (UK)
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- Figure 7: FootFall shopping centre index (UK), April 2004
- Matrix
- Value
- Volume
Sector Analysis – Mixed Goods
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- Figure 8: Mixed goods and home shopping: Sales trends, 1996-2003
- Figure 9: Mixed goods and home shopping: Sale trends Index, 1998-2003
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 10: Indices of retail prices for selected product categories, 1998-2004
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- Figure 11: Monthly inflation rates for selected product categories, May 2003-April 2004
- Breakdown of sales by sub-sector
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- Figure 12: Mixed goods and home shopping: Breakdown of sales, by sub-sector, 1998-2004 (est)
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- Figure 13: Mixed goods and home shopping: Breakdown of sales, by sub-sector, 1998-2004 (est)
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 14: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 1995-2003
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- Figure 15: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 1995-2003
- Mixed goods retailers: Latest trends
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- Figure 16: Mixed good retailers: Sale trends, 1998-2004
- Figure 17: Mixed goods retailers: Sales trends, 2001-04
- Large mixed goods retailers: Latest trends
- Woolworths recovering?
- Will Poundstrecher turnaround?
- Mixed results for Department stores
- Small mixed goods retailers: Latest trends
- Mail order houses: latest trends
- Other non-store retailers: latest trends
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Sector News – Mixed Goods
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- Company results
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- Figure 18: Latest full-year results – Mixed goods
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- Figure 19: Latest full-year results – Department stores
- Figure 20: Latest full-year results – Home shopping
- Mixed goods
- Marks & Spencer
- Launches Per Una Dué
- Launches new catalogue
- Chairman to quit
- Weak Q4…
- …and M&S plans to take action
- Announces job cuts
- Turns to staff for ideas
- Expanding Plymouth store
- To open new store in the Cardinal Place development
- Breaks into the furniture and homewares market
- Radice appointed new M&S clothing boss
- Recruits menswear designer
- Premium range to be launched in 2005
- Looking for Scandinavian partners?
- Disappointing Christmas results
- Marks & Spencer to try new style format
- George Davies oversees hunt for Per Una space in new year
- To roll out Sp. tailoring range
- Woolworths
- Stepping up refurbishment plans
- To license toy brands?
- To rebrand big W stores
- To expand online product offer
- Recovery on track
- big W’s sales grow
- MVC “disappoints”
- Investing in infrastructure
- Further investment on refits
- Firm Christmas trading
- Bhs
- Registers flat sales
- Major store refurbishment programme planned
- Brown & Jackson
- Unveils small loss
- New format take up
- Current trading
- Christmas sales decline
- Pushes ahead with recovery strategy
- TJ Morris
- To expand store network
- Tchibo
- Revives UK expansion drive
- B&M
- Refurbishing stores
- Department stores
- John Lewis Partnership
- JLP profits grow…
- …driven by Waitrose
- WaitroseDirect merges with JLDirect
- Unveils solid festive sales
- To abandon Jonelle brand
- Debenhams
- Launched new ranges
- To expand international operations
- Direct catalogue likely to go
- Job cuts
- Fashion to fill space left by departure of electronics departments?
- Baroness takes control
- Focuses on fashion offer
- House of Fraser
- Delivers profit growth
- Bromley store to close
- To launch new furniture ranges
- Introducing new fashion brands
- Standalone stores for World of Food?
- Harrods
- To refurbish menswear section
- Profits down at Harrods
- Shelves plans to open satellite food store
- As reports of suitor emerge
- Selfridges
- Abandons £300m redevelopment
- Chief Executive resigns
- Plans to overhaul menswear department
- Harvey Nichols
- Irish debut planned
- James Beattie
- Reports flat full-year sales
- Current sales picking up
- Looking for new Managing Director
- Christmas sales dented by strong competition
- Beale
- Full-year profits decline…
- …affected by refits
- Current trading
- Allders
- Reports loss
- Designers unveiled in March
- Liberty
- Liberty interim results
- TJ Hughes
- MBO set to fuel expansion again
- Fortnum & Mason
- Sales rise
- Elphicks
- To refurbish store
- Palmers
- Acquires Chadds of Lowestoft
- Flannels
- To open Liverpool store
- Multi-sector
- GUS
- Looking to float Experian
- To cut jobs?
- Trading boosted by Argos’ performance
- Homebase performs well
- Strong Christmas growth
- Announces record profits…
- …despite decline in mail order sales
- Sells Burberry stake
- While 30 new Homebase stores planned
- Littlewoods
- One-off gains boost profits
- May date for Index demerger
- 800 jobs to be cut at Shop Direct
- Competition Commission clears merger
- Merchant Retail Group
- De Gruchy refurbishes store
- Christmas sales boosted by The Perfume Shop
- Mixed performance for group in H1…
- …as department stores continue to disappoint
- CI Traders
- Registers strong H1
- Home shopping
- N Brown
- Reports sales increase
- To launch TV shopping channel
- Christmas sales up
- Findel
- Reports profit growth
- Strong sales growth…
- As it announces plans for fashion push
- Thane UK
- Launches mail order magazine
- Shop Direct
- Former Argos Additions catalogue revamped
- Dream Direct
- Cuts losses
- ASOS
- Trading update
- To increase menswear offer
- Flying Brands
- Flying Brands posts growth
- Boys Stuff
- Introduces ‘Girls Stuff’
- QVC
- Sales ahead
- Ideal Shopping Direct
- Expects loss for full-year
- La Redoute
- UK sales up
- Amazon
- Launches home & gardening range
Key Topic – Sports Goods Retailing
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- Introduction
- Market value and trends
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- Figure 21: UK: Consumer spending on sports goods, 1999-2003
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- Figure 22: UK: Consumer spending on sports goods, by product category, 2000 and 2002
- Clothing
- Footwear
- Equipment
- Channels of distribution
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- Figure 23: UK: Sports goods market: Sales by distribution channel, 2003
- Specialists
- Department and variety stores
- Home shopping
- Clothing retailers
- Footwear retailers
- Others
- Sales through sports specialists
- Sector value and trends
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- Figure 24: UK: Sports specialists’ sales, 1999-2003
- Figure 25: UK: Sports specialists relative performance, 1999-2003
- Outlets
- Leading specialists
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- Figure 26: UK: Leading sports specialists, 2002
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- Figure 27: UK: Leading specialists’ market shares, 2002
- Consumer research
- Outlets used for sports goods shopping
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- Figure 28: Outlets used for sports goods purchasing in the past 12 months, 1999-2003
- Expenditure on sports goods
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- Figure 29: Expenditure on sports goods in the past 12 months, 2000-03
- Prospects and forecasts
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- Figure 30: UK: Retail sales forecasts, 2003-08f
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