Table of Contents
Analyst’s Comment
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- Tesco boosting its loyalty programme
- Consumers don’t like loyalty cards
- Loyalty cards – trading stamps
- The costs of learning about your customers
Headlines for the Month
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- Food retailers
- Clothing retailers
- Mixed Goods
- Multi-sector
- Department stores
- DIY
- Electricals
- Miscellaneous
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends, 2008-09
- Early indications for August
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- Figure 2: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2007/09
- Figure 3: John Lewis: Year-on-year growth, 2008-09
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 4: RPI vs Wage rate growth, 2007-09
- RPI moving up again
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in Retail Price Index for selected product groups, 2008-09
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Furniture, Carpets and DIY
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- Housing
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- Figure 6: Housing transactions, 2005-09
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- Figure 7: UK house prices, 2000-09
- Furniture
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- Figure 8: Furniture retailers, sales trends, 1999-2008
- Figure 9: Furniture retailers, year-on-year sales growth, 2007-09
- Carpets
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- Figure 10: Carpet retailers, sales trends, 1999-2008
- Figure 11: Carpet retailers relative to all retail sales, 2007-09
- DIY
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- Figure 12: DIY retailers, sales trends, 1999-2008
- Figure 13: DIY retailers relative to all retail sales, 2007-09
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 14: Indices of retail prices for product categories (household goods), Jan 2004-Aug 2009
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 15: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 2004-09 (Q1)
- Leading retailers
- Furniture retailers
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- Figure 16: Furniture retailers’ sales relative to all retail sales, 1999-2009
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- Figure 17: Furniture retailers – Leading specialists, 2008/09
- Carpets
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- Figure 18: Carpet retailers’ sales relative to all retail sales, 1999-2009
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- Figure 19: Carpet retailers – Leading specialists, 2008/09
- DIY
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- Figure 20: DIY retailers’ sales relative to all retail sales, 1999-2009
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- Figure 21: DIY retailers – Leading specialists, 2007/08
Advertising News
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- New campaigns
- Comet sponsors WWTBM on ITV1
- Currys unveils new ad campaign
- M&S trials QR codes on juice bottles
- Morrison's plays poems
- Sainsbury's in X-Factor tie-up
- Tesco extends double-points offer
- Waitrose in direct marketing push
- Accounts gains and losses
- Burberry hires BBH
- Fat Face hands ad account to MCBD
- Holland & Barrett drops WCRS
- Iceland retains Tom Reddy ad agency
- JD Williams hands £20 million media account to MediaVest
- John Lewis takes paid-search business in-house
- Lida wins Signet DM account
Executive Appointments
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- Adams appoints new chief
- Ann Summers hires new marketing manager
- Clarks chief executive Bolliger to retire
- Jessops appoints new CEO
- M&S starts search for new chief
- Robert Dyas names new chairman, concludes debt deal
The Month in UK Retailing
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- Bakers (retail)
- Greggs enjoys profit increase
- Thorntons
- … completes refinancing
- … FY profits down 4.5%
- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-op launches legal service ad campaign
- Grocers
- Asda
- … posts strong Q2 sales
- … branches into life insurance market with LV
- Morrisons H1 profits soar 45%
- Sainsbury's
- … opens largest Northern Irish store
- … announces Scottish expansion plans
- … to triple games marketing budget
- Tesco
- … sets up weather team
- … seals partnership with Fortis
- Off-licences
- Majestic Wine halves minimum bottle purchase
- Other food specialists
- Holland & Barrett receives approval for Julian Graves takeover
- Clothing retailing
- Alexon to relaunch Ann Harvey
- Ben Sherman losses widen
- High & Mighty sold to N Brown
- Jaeger completes Aquascutum purchase
- Mackays sees profit fall
- Matalan to create 1,800 jobs
- Primark expects FY LFLs up 7%
- Mixed goods retailing
- Wilkinson posts record FY sales
- Multi-sector retailing
- HMV posts results, buys 7Digital stake
- Home Retail posts better-than-expected Q2 results
- Laura Ashley H1 sales up 6%
- M&S starts search for new chief
- Department stores
- Debenhams demands improved terms from suppliers
- Fenwick posts solid FY results
- Harrods sees FY sales rise 9%
- House of Fraser sees profits soar 16% in H1
- DIY retailing
- Kingfisher rushed to reveal H1 profits after data leak
- Focus
- … CVA likely to succeed
- … saved from administration
- Electrical retailing
- Kesa group sales dip despite rise at Comet
- DSGi sales down 6%
- Carpet retailing
- Allied Carpets announces redundancies
- Home shopping
- Findel fundraising receives strong backing
- Littlewoods launches in Europe
- Moonpig doubles profits
- Health and beauty retailing
- Lloyds Pharmacy to provide high street healthcare
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Sports Direct ups profit forecast as sales jump
- Jewellers
- Signet
- … suffers Q2 LFLs drop
- … Q2 profit jumps thanks to cost cuts
- Theo Fennell swings to £3.3 million FY loss
- Toys and games retailing
- Hamleys FY losses mount
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