Table of Contents
Analyst’s Comment
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- Heads coming out of the sand
- Concerns
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- Figure 1: Concern over finances, change Feb 2008-Jun 2009
- Rationalising
- Realisation
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- Figure 2: Concern over job prospects, 18-25-year-olds, Feb 2008-Jun 2009
- Retail sales
Headlines for the Month
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- Food retailing
- Clothing and footwear
- Mixed goods
- Department stores
- DIY
- Electricals
- Carpets
- Home shopping
- Sports retailing
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 3: Retail sales trends, 2008-09
- Early indications for June
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- Figure 4: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2007/09
- Figure 5: John Lewis: Year-on-year growth, 2008-09
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 6: RPI vs Wage rate growth, 2007-09
- The RPI falls below zero
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- Figure 7: Annual percentage change in Retail Price Index for selected product groups, 2008-09
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Clothing and Footwear Retailers
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 8: Clothing and footwear specialist retailers, sales trends, 1998-2009 (May)
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- Figure 9: Deflation in clothing and footwear, 1999-2009 (May)
- Sharp falls
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- Figure 10: Clothing and footwear retailers as % of all retail sales, 1998-2008
- Young vs Old
- Sub-sectors
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- Figure 11: Breakdown of clothing and footwear retailers’ sales, by sub-sector, 1998-2009 (May)
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 12: Indices of retail prices for key product categories, 1998-2008
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 13: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 1998-2008
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- Figure 14: Clothing retailers as % all spending on clothing, 1998-2008
- Clothing sector
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- Figure 15: Clothing specialists: Leading retailers’ share of clothing retailers’ sales, 2007/08-2008/09
- Footwear
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- Figure 16: Footwear specialists: Leading retailers’ share of footwear retailers’ sales, 2007
Advertising News
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- New campaigns
- Currys to sponsor The Simpsons
- Harvey Nichols in sale-fighter push
- Iceland continues jungle camp sponsorship
- Matalan sponsors Sky summer shows
- Next plots in-store magazine
- Sainsbury's challenges Tesco with price-led ads
- Tesco
- …rolling out 'pound shop' strategy
- …wades into school uniform price war
- Accounts gains and losses
- Boots hires Rapp for No7 ad account
Executive Appointments
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- Hamleys appoints new chairman
- M&S chief announces plans to step down
- Rose receives support as M&S executive chairman
- Sainsbury’s considers two for chairman role
- Theo Fennell returns to board
Advertising Expenditure
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- Figure 17: Total advertising expenditure, by all advertisers (£m), Apr 2005-Apr 2009
- Figure 18: Total advertising expenditure, by all retail advertisers (£m), Apr 2005-Apr 2009
- Use of media
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- Figure 19: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (£m), Apr 2008-Apr 2009
- Figure 20: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (%), Apr 2008-Apr 2009
- Top 25 retail advertisers
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- Figure 21: Top 25 retailers by adspend (£), Apr-May 2009
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The Month in UK Retailing
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- Grocers
- Iceland posts record sales and profits
- Kwik Save moves to Spain
- Morrisons ploughs ahead with farm in Scotland
- Sainsbury's LFLs climb 7.8%
- Tesco
- …reveals "solid" Q1 performance
- …in £458m property deal
- …in insurance deal with Fortis
- …could bid for Northern Rock
- Off-licences
- First Quench posts FY loss
- Majestic sees FY profits plummet 56%
- Clothing retailing
- H&M reports rise in Q2 profit
- Jacques Vert records £2.9m loss
- Matalan defies gloom with robust FY results
- Mulberry FY profit down despite sales growth
- New Look to roll out premium brand
- Primark sales jump 20%
- Ted Baker sees sales lift in Q1
- Footwear retailing
- Mr Shoes trips into administration
- Mixed goods retailing
- Home Retail sees strong Homebase sales
- Instore FY pre-tax loss widens to £10.5m
- Multi-sector retailing
- M&S
- …to launch home shopping in 70 countries
- …to launch pick 'n' mix sweet selection
- …reports improvement in Q1 sales
- Department stores
- Beales sales dip in H1
- Debenhams' share offer receives weak uptake
- Harvey Nichols to trial online fashion sales
- House of Fraser quells rumours of banking covenant breach
- DIY retailing
- Focus ponders CVA
- Kingfisher plans large Russian expansion
- Electrical retailing
- Best Buy suffers 15% fall in Q1 profit
- DSGi suffers £140.4m FY loss
- Kesa Electricals reports FY loss
- Music and video goods retailing
- HMV reports 11.5% rise in FY pre-tax profit
- Virgin Megastores posts loss
- Carpet retailing
- Allied Carpets
- …to place subsidiary in administration
- …to close stores and cut jobs
- …goes into administration and pre-pack deal
- Carpetright suffers 72% slump in FY profit
- Home shopping
- Asos boasts 93% surge in FY profits
- Ideal Shopping Direct enjoys sales increase
- N Brown enjoys sales rise
- Shop Direct
- …to rebrand Littlewoods
- …unveils Woolworths.co.uk
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- JJB Sports
- …plots £50m fund raising amid loan storm
- …row escalates
- Toys and games retailing
- Game sees LFLs plummet 15.4%
- Hamleys plummets into £2.7m FY loss
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Halfords profits rise 2.4%
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