About Mintel’s research:

Retail Review enables comparison of UK retail performance by identifying the winners and losers among leading retailers in all categories of retail activity, including home shopping. It contains three-year trends in sales and profit performance together with an analysis of retail company performance and developments for over 160 of the UK’s largest retail reporting entities with an identifiable UK turnover of over £75 million (£100 million in food).

The Review enables users to identify the key players of the future by highlighting emerging retailers that are expected to expand rapidly over the next three years. Additionally, the Review highlights companies just below the turnover threshold and those companies that are known to have UK sales in excess of the turnover threshold but which do not give a breakdown of their UK sales.

The key issues affecting trading in each retail category are examined to assess which categories are likely to deliver growth in 2006 and which are vulnerable to external factors and structural changes in the market, especially the continued expansion of major grocery retailers into non-food retailing. The Review contains the results of exclusive consumer research into the state of consumer confidence and what people’s expenditure priorities are for 2006 to give greater depth to understanding of how consumers are going to behave in what is expected to be another difficult year for UK retailers.