Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- Some Christmas
- Some went according to plan
- Demand for quality
- The internet
- Casualties
- Outlook for 2007
- Consumers still in boom mode
The Month in UK Retailing
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- Bakers (retail)
- Greggs’ likes-for-likes up for Xmas
- Thorntons rebounds after difficult Q1
- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-operative Group enjoys soaring Xmas sales
- Grocers
- Asda
- …launches into furniture market
- …and cuts petrol prices
- “Recovery on track,” says Sainsbury’s
- Tesco
- …surpasses festive forecasts
- …kicks off 2007 price war
- …promises 'green consumption revolution'
- …and moves into house-building
- Supermarkets
- …escape crackdown
- …as BRC calls for end to enquiry
- Morrisons
- …posts Christmas like-for-likes increase
- …and prepares to axe logo
- Off-licences
- A Majestic Christmas
- Mixed Goods Retailing
- Instore recovers momentum over Christmas
- Wilkinson extends RightPrice range
- Woolworths
- …posts dismal festive results
- …and may close up to 200 stores
- Multi-Sector Retailing
- Alliance Boots reports Q3 profits
- Online sales soar at Virgin Megastores
- HMV reports operating loss
- Home Retail reports disappointing Christmas trading
- Sales rise at John Lewis
- Laura Ashley sees sales slow in H2
- Next suffers difficult Christmas on the High Street
- Marks & Spencer
- …reports a good Christmas
- …aims to become carbon-neutral
- …and adds £500m to pension funding
- Department stores
- Beales suffer tough Christmas
- Debenhams down at Christmas
- Harrods ditches store cards
- House of Fraser enjoys best ever Christmas
- DIY Retailing
- Focus examines sale options
- Topps Tiles beats tough trading
- Electrical Retailing
- Kesa powers ahead
- DSG posts strong UK results
- Homewares Retailing
- Dunelm sales show strength
- Home shopping
- Asos continues form over Christmas
- Flying Brands hit by garden division sales
- Littlewoods signs up Trinny and Susannah
- N Brown sees festive sales soar
- White Company continues to grow
- Book and Stationery Retailing
- Pre-Christmas sales please Clinton Cards
- Music Zone, Greeting Card Group enter administration
- Greeting Card Group sold in MBO
- WH Smith reports further sales decline
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Sales continue to grow at John David
- Sports goods retailers face compensation claim
- Christmas sales disappoint Blacks Leisure
- JJB Sports reports pleasing Christmas results
- Jewellers
- Signet’s like-for-likes rise
- Theo Fennell reveals record Xmas
- Garden centres
- Blooms of Bressingham
- …pleased with Xmas trading
- …and enters takeover talks
- Christmas sees Dobbies’ sales jump over 30%
- Toys and games retailing
- An impressive Christmas for Game Group
- Hamleys' boosted by festive sales
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Jessops’ like-for-likes disappoint for December
Executive Appointments
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- Alliance Pharmacy appoints trading and marketing director
- Brown Thomas to search for new chief executive
- George appoints Next director
- Habitat UK manager to quit
- Harris to split his Carpetright roles
- HMV ousts UK head
- Kurt Geiger hires retail chief
- John Lewis appoints new MD
- Lidl appoint top marketer
- Limited exec joins QVC
- Lister joins New Look team
- Myriad loses top exec ahead of sale
- Recovery plan for Dolcis
- Two more directors quit Matalan
- United Carpets appoints Tricker
- Virgin Megastores appoint marketing chiefs
- Waitrose marketing chief quits
- Wharton joins Musgrave Budgens Londis
Product Development – Baked Goods
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- Asda
- Marks & Spencer
- Morrisons
- Somerfield
- Tesco
- Waitrose
Advertising News
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- New Campaigns
- Asos to sponsor America's Next Top Model
- Carphone Warehouse suspends CBB sponsorship
- First TV ads for Ilva
- £4m food labelling campaign launched
- Former Mis-Teeq star the new face of Ecko Red
- Liz Hurley named new face of Monsoon
- Morrisons £1m healthy eating campaign
- MTV and The Body Shop introduce HIV/Aids campaign
- Threshers discount a success
- Traffic lights food campaign airs
- Account gains/losses
- Agent Provocateur hires Blowfish Digital
- Carat and Zenith to fight for Superdrug
- Hammonds appoints Doner Cardwell
- House of Fraser £3m advertising review
- Otto UK consolidates media task
- PC World appoints Baber Smith
- Sainsbury's hire TMW for £1m DM task
- Vision Express £7m ad account pitch review
Retail Advertising Review
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- Advertising expenditure
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- Figure 1: Total advertising expenditure by all advertisers (£m), November 2002 – November 2006
- Figure 2: Total advertising expenditure by all retail advertisers (£m), November 2002 – November 2006
- Use of media
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- Figure 3: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (%), November 2005 and November 2006
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- Figure 4: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (£m), November 2005 and November 2006
- Top 25 retail advertisers
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- Figure 5: Top 25 retailers by adspend (£), October 2006 – November 2006
- Food
- Variety Stores
- Furniture
- Electricals
- Other
- Nielsen Media Research/ Definitions
Retail Sales and Inflation
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- Retail sales
- Office for National Statistics
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- Figure 6: Retail sales trends: December 2005 – December 2006
- Figure 7: Non seasonally adjusted % value change on previous year, December 2005 – December 2006
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- Figure 8: Seasonally adjusted % volume change on previous year, December 2005 – December 2006
- Significant features of the latest ONS statistics
- Confederation of British Industry
- British Retail Consortium/KPMG
- Retail price inflation trends
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- Figure 9: Annual percentage change in retail price index for selected product groups: December 2005 – December 2006
- Figure 10: Annual percentage change in retail price index for selected product groups: December 2005 – December 2006
- Retail Prices Index
- Consumer Prices Index
- British Retail Consortium: Shop Price Index
Sector Analysis – Clothing and Footwear
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 11: Clothing & footwear retailers: Sales trends, 1996-2006
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- Figure 12: Clothing and footwear retailers as % all retail sales: 1997 – 2006
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 13: Indices of retail prices for product categories (clothing and footwear), Jan 1997- Dec 2006
- Sales by sub-sector
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- Figure 14: Breakdown of clothing retailers’ sales by sub-sector, 1994-2006
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 15: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 1995-2006 Q3, (£m current prices including VAT, not seasonally adjusted)
- Clothing retailers: latest trends
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- Figure 16: Leading specialist clothing retailers, 2006
- Footwear Retailing: latest trends
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- Figure 17: UK: Leading specialist footwear retailers, 2004-05
Sector News Review: Clothing Retail
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- July
- Clothing Retailing
- Alexon sees troubles continue
- Marchpole acquires luxury clothing company
- Matalan
- …founder given six weeks to bid
- …and increases offer
- Mexx to go online
- Moss Bros experience challenging first-half
- August
- Clothing Retailing
- Topshop
- …cleared for US launch
- …and announces Kate Moss design deal
- Austin Reed
- …rejects offer
- …and returns to profit
- Jacques Vert, Alexon mull sales
- Fat face reveals fine full year
- French Connection woes continue in first half
- Clothing sales up at Matalan
- Monsoon creates a storm with Sophie-Ellis-Bextor
- Mosaic heads towards £800m float
- River Island sues Debenhams
- ABF updates Primark trading
- Footwear Retailing
- Stylo appoints Spitz
- September
- Clothing Retailing
- Alexon
- …sees sales hit by warm weather
- …and scraps Mandolin
- Burberry reveals retail sales rise
- Cortefiel coming to UK
- Dawnay, Day set to raise Austin Reed offer
- Jaeger plans growth, US return
- Matalan
- …sees board recommend Hargreaves’ offer
- …as recovery plans are revealed
- Mk One records 16-month loss
- Monsoon reveals trading difficulties
- Moss Bros
- …reveals interim profit drop
- …as Baugur considers bid
- Mothercare boosted by international sales
- New Look abandons flotation plans
- Ted Baker
- …looks east for expansion
- …as success continues
- October
- Clothing retailing
- Arcadia
- …see sales and profits fall
- …plans to overhaul stores
- Austin Reed board accepts £49 million offer
- Burberry records interim profit drop
- Lion Capital buys Contessa
- Gap
- …reveals Mouret dresses line
- … and immediately sees them sell out
- Ashley buys Kangol
- Matalan posts further sales fall
- Monsoon chief exec sells up
- Mothercare profits in first half
- Paul Smith expansion continues
- Peacocks plans flagship, considers more womenswear stores
- Primark posts sales, profit rise
- November
- Clothing retailing
- Adams Childrenswear put up for sale
- Austin Reed set for expansion, possibly Germany
- Gap to launch Banana Republic in UK
- Baugur
- … to buy into Allsaints
- … plans big UK deals and US move
- Mk One to sell 20 stores
- Amazon to run Mothercare's online platform
- Mulberry profits in first half
- Office reports success while USC/D2/Qube slump
- Footwear retailing
- Alexon to sell Dolcis to mystery buyer
- Kinnaird’s Hamsard 3032 gets Dolcis
- December
- Clothing retailing
- Like-for-likes down at Alexon
- Booming online sales for Ann Summers
- Burberry reports bumper Q3
- Moss Bros issues profit warning
- Mothercare suffers difficult Q3
- New Look reports solid Christmas trading
- Ted Baker reports 11% growth
Sector Advertising Review – Clothing
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- Advertising expenditure
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- Figure 18: Total advertising expenditure by clothing retailers, November 2002 – November 2006
- Use of media
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- Figure 19: Use of media by clothing retailers and all retailers (%), November 2005 and November 2006
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- Figure 20: Use of media by clothing retailers and all retailers (£m), November 2005 and November 2006
- Top ten clothing retail advertisers
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- Figure 21: Top ten clothing retailers by adspend, November 2005 and November 2006
- Retailer focus
- Marks & Spencer
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- Figure 22: Marks & Spencer, media use by adspend and as share of total, November 2005 – November 2006
- Figure 23: Marks & Spencer, top five brands by adspend, November 2006
- Matalan
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- Figure 24: Matalan, media use by adspend and as share of total, November 2005 – November 2006
- Figure 25: Matalan, top two brands by adspend, November 2006
- Clarks
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- Figure 26: Clarks, media use by adspend and as share of total, November 2005 – November 2006
- Figure 27: Clarks, top five brands by adspend, November 2006
- H&M
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- Figure 28: H&M, media use by adspend and as share of total, November 2005 – November 2006
- Figure 29: H&M, top five brands by adspend, November 2006
- Nielsen Media Research/ Definitions
Report Focus: Gift List Services
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- Consumers: who, where and why
- Market worth over £280m
- Weddings dominate gift list market
- List value size varies
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- Figure 30: You and Your Wedding average value of gift lists 2004–06
- Difficult to quantify market size
- Market shows steady growth
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- Figure 31: Market size for gift list services, 2000-06
- Profiles of leading Gift List Services Retailers
- John Lewis
- Background
- Setting up a gift list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Debenhams
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- General trading store (The Wedding List Company)
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Argos
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Focus
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Amazon.co.uk
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- The Wedding Shop
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Confetti
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Wedding presents direct
- Background
- Setting up a wedding list
- Making a gift purchase
- Delivery of gifts
- Evaluation of gift service
- Growth only for some in the gift list market
- Wedding list trends – the adventurous, the aspirational and the altruistic
- Internet revolution but not on its own
- Gift list futures
- What does the future hold for gift list services ?
- Weddings on the rise again
- Charity wish lists more popular for anniversaries
- Gift lists become less traditional
- Rising affluence boosts market
- Upmarket retailers likely to thrive
- Pink pound offers an opportunity for growth
- Internet offers further room for expansion
- Internet offers unique advantages
- Weddings remain the only opportunity for real growth
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