Report Summary
Providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date information and analysis of the UK Retail market, including the behaviours, preferences and habits of the consumer.
While this report covers the retail market throughout 2019 and into 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major distorting effect on the state of the UK Retail market, with companies with a June year-end potentially losing a quarter of a year’s in-store trading.
With a large section of non-essential retail businesses closing their physical stores, many customers have moved to buying online. However, thanks to the economic uncertainty from job losses and decreased income, there has been a drop in overall demand as economic uncertainty saw many reducing their spending.
Retailers who have been more active online such as BooHoo or ASOS have benefitted from the shift to buying online, with a precedent already set for successful online brands buying up failing high street companies. However, as lockdown restrictions lift the increased demand for in-person shopping experiences could provide a boost to that area of the sector. This report covers the state of the UK Retail sector throughout 2019 and into 2020, as well as the effect that early lockdowns had on the industry.
Read on to discover more details or take a look at all of our UK Retail market research.
Quickly understand
- The impact of COVID-19 on UK Retailing.
- An overview of mergers and acquisitions as well as administrations in the UK retail sector.
- Major players and developments by UK retail sector.
- A comparison of retailer performance by sales, profit and store data for the leading UK retailers. (Databook)
- Index of trading names and company names for the leading 600 UK retailers. (Databook)
Covered in this report
Books and Stationary Brands: WH Smith, Card Factory, Waterstones, The Works, Paperchase.
Carpet Brands: Carpetright, Tapi Carpets & Floors, Wilsons Furnishers, United Carpets, Claverts Carpets.
Clothing Brands: Next, Primark, M&S, TK Maxx, Arcadia Group.
DIY Brands: Kingfisher, Wickes, Homebase, Topps Tiles, C Brewer.
Electrical and Telecom Brands: Dixons Carphone, 02, Apple Retail, Vodafone, Three UK.
Food Brands: Greggs, Holland & Barrett, Thorntons, Hotel Chocolat, Krispy Kreme.
Footwear Brands: C&J Clark, Kurt Geiger, Office Holdings, Schuh, Footasylum.
Furniture Brands: IKEA, Steinhoff, Dunelm, DFS, Wren Kitchens.
Expert analysis from a specialist in the field
Written by Neil Mason, a leading analyst in the Retail sector, his extensive knowledge delivers in-depth commentary and analysis to highlight current trends and add expert context to the numbers.
The 2021 Retail Rankings paints a picture of the retail sector that went into lockdown. It helps to put into context the businesses which have failed, such as Debenhams, Arcadia and Aurora. Their share of retail sales was relatively low (they rank at 30 or under in the Ranking), but their share of outlets is far greater at over a quarter of the totals identified in their particular sector. The Rankings shows the growing strength of the online retailers and will be the benchmark to assess the state of retailing as it emerges from lockdown in 2021 and 2022.
Neil Mason
Retail Category Director
Table of Contents
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Technical Notes
- Key issues covered in this Report
- Qualifications for inclusion
- Figure 1: Small and medium company exemptions, 2016
- Sales areas
- Classifications
- Rankings
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Data
- Year-ends
- Sales
- Profit
- Non-retail data
- Subsidiary accounts
- Sales density
- Classifications and market shares
- Figure 2: Sector codes used in this report
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The Impact of COVID-19 on UK Retail
- Bringing forward the inevitable
- Online winners
- Top 10
- Figure 3: UK: Top 10 retailers, 2017-19
- Putting the store losses in context
- The huge hole on the high street
- Online the clear winner
- Migration online
- Figure 4: Retail sales growth/decline by sector, 2019-20
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Administrations
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- Figure 5: Key administrations, February 2020-February 2021
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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- Figure 6: Key mergers and acquisitions, February 2020-February 2021
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Books, News and Stationery Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 7: Books, News and stationery specialists: sales as proportion of all retail sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 8: Leading books, news and stationery specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Carpet Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 9: Carpet specialists’ sales as % all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 10: Leading carpet specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Charities
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- What we’ve seen
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Clothing Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 11: Clothing specialists: sales as proportion of all retail sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 12: Leading clothing specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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DIY Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 13: DIY specialists: sales as proportion of all retail sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 14: Leading DIY specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Electricals, IT and Telecoms Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 15: Electricals, IT and telecoms specialists sales as % all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
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- Figure 16: Leading electrical, IT and telecoms specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Food Specialists (including Off Licences and Tobacconists)
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 17: Food specialists’ sales as a % of all food retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 18: Leading food specialists, market shares, 2019/20
- What we’ve seen
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Footwear Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 19: Footwear specialists’ sales as % all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 20: Leading footwear specialists, market shares,2019
- What we’ve seen
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Furniture and Homewares Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
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- Figure 21: Furniture and homewares specialists’ sales as % all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 22: Leading furniture and homewares specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Garden Centres
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 23: Garden products: spending as proportion of all retail sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 24: Leading garden centres, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Health and Beauty Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 25: Health and beauty specialists*, sales as % of all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 26: Leading health and beauty specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Home Shopping Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 27: Mail order (incl. internet pureplayers): sales as proportion of all retail sales, 2011-20
- Figure 28: Other non-store retailers: sales as proportion of all retail sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 29: Leading home shopping specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Jewellery Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 30: Jewellery specialists, sales as % of all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 31: Leading jewellery specialists, market shares,2019
- What we’ve seen
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Miscellaneous Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 32: Miscellaneous specialists’ sales as % of all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 33: Leading miscellaneous specialist retailers, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Mixed Goods Retailers
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 34: Mixed goods retailers, sales as % of all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 35: Leading mixed goods retailers, market shares, 2019
- Figure 36: Leading department store retailers, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Opticians
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Sector structure
- Figure 37: Leading opticians, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Recreation Specialists
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 38: Toys and sports clothing and equipment specialists, estimated sales as % of all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
- Figure 39: Leading sports specialists, market shares, 2019
- What we’ve seen
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Supermarkets, Superstores and Convenience Stores
- Sector introduction
- Sector highlights
- Figure 40: Supermarkets’ sales as % of all retailers’ sales, 2011-20
- Sector structure
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- Figure 41: Leading supermarkets, market shares*, 2019/20
- What we’ve seen
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