Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- GIVe
- Unrivalled track record
- Innovative
- Hardly the best time for a launch
- Targeting the older woman
- Will GIVe succeed?
- Yes it should
Headlines for the Month
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- Food retailers
- Clothing retailers
- Department stores
- Home shopping
- Sports goods
- Furniture retailers
- Electricals retailers
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 July
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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
- The RPI stable
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in Retail Price Index for selected product groups, 2008-09
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Mixed Goods
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 6: Mixed goods retailers, sales trends, 1999-2009
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- Figure 7: Mixed goods retailers relative to all retail sales, 1999-2009
- Retail price inflation
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 8: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories (£m), 2004-08
- Leading retailers
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- Figure 9: Mixed goods retailers – Leading players, 2007/08-2008/09
Executive Appointments and Advertising News
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- Executive appointments
- Aurora names new CEO
- Primark chief steps down
- Sainsbury's appoints Tyler as new chairman
- Shop Direct appoints finance chief
- Advertising news
- New campaigns
- Comet boost search activity
- Habitat in European brand campaign
- M&S Money campaign
- M&S in credit club promotion
- Morrisons sponsors farm show on ITV
- Shop Direct to promote Woolies profile
- Topman in social media push
- Accounts gains and losses
- Burberry calls pitch for global media business
- HMV appoints Retail Eyes
The Month in UK Retailing
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- Bakers (retail)
- Thorntons enjoys revenue increase
- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-op posts H1 profit increase
- Grocers
- Asda launches Asian clothing range
- Sainsbury’s
- …launches financial services campaign
- …launches new loyalty scheme
- ...posts solid results
- Spar LFLs rise 5.2%
- Tesco
- …seals partnership with Fortis
- …prepares for website relaunch
- …profits climb up in H1
- …Clubcard goes international
- Clothing retailing
- Adili to open high street stores
- Alexon posts pre-tax loss
- Ann Summers eyes larger share of lingerie market
- Aurora Fashions enjoys "strong first half"
- French Connection
- …to withdraw from Japan
- …losses more than double
- Jacques Vert reveals LFLs drop
- Moss Bros suffers £3 million loss
- New Look mulls flotation plan
- Next profits up 6.9%
- Original Factory Shop sales and profits up
- Ted Baker pre-tax profits down 18.4%
- Zara
- …prepares for online move
- …hit by Inditex expansion
- Multi-sector retailing
- M&S
- …reports sales improvement
- …ramps up overseas delivery service
- …to unveil overhauled website
- Department stores
- Debenhams LFLs down 3.8%
- John Lewis relaunches fashion website
- John Lewis Partnership suffers profit drop
- TJ Hughes records 9.1% sales increase
- DIY retailing
- B&Q launches £20 million price offensive
- Kingfisher records 35% H1 profit rise
- Robert Dyas
- …names new chairman, concludes debt deal
- …posts £10 million loss
- Topps Tiles optimistic over FY results
- Home shopping
- Amazon launches standalone footwear site
- Asos sales boosted by overseas growth
- Boden ponders major European expansion
- Findel LFLs slide 5%
- Ideal Shopping Direct posts flat losses
- N Brown posts 13% profit increase
- Shop Direct Group enjoys 7.4% sales boost
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Blacks Leisure
- …to breach banking loan terms
- …calls administrators to O’Neill stores
- …considers CVA
- JD Sports profit up 14.5%
- JJB Sports
- …announces £100 million rights issue
- …losses increase
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Halfords Q2 LFLs up 2.2%
- Pets at Home explores IPO potential
- Luxury goods retailing
- Burberry
- …to launch social network
- …enjoys revenue boost
- Garden centres
- Dobbies sees FY profits plunge 80%
- Housewares retailing
- Dunelm
- …founder sells 8% stake
- …sales improve in second half
- Furniture retailing
- Furniture Village sees FY profits slump
- Video and computer games retailing
- Game profits down 67%
- Photographic retailing
- Jessops unveils survival plan
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