Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- Whither DIY?
- End of a love affair
- Still going strong
- First love
- Opportunities
Headlines for the Month
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- Food retailers
- Clothing retailers
- Multi-sector retailers
- Department stores
- DIY
Retail Sales Review
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- Key points
- France
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- Figure 1: France: Retail sales trends, 2008-09
- Inflation
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- Figure 2: France: Inflation, 2009-10
- Germany
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- Figure 3: Germany: Retail sales trends, 2009-10
- Inflation
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- Figure 4: Germany: Inflation, 2009-10
- Italy
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- Figure 5: Italy: Retail sales trends, 2008-09
- Inflation
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- Figure 6: Italy: Inflation, 2009-10
- Netherlands
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- Figure 7: The Netherlands: Retail sales trends, 2009-10
- Inflation
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- Figure 8: The Netherlands: Inflation, 2009-10
- Spain
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- Figure 9: Spain: Retail sales trends, 2009-10
- Inflation
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- Figure 10: Spain: Inflation, 2009-10
- UK
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- Figure 11: Retail sales trends, 2009-10
- Inflation
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- Figure 12: UK: Annual percentage change in Retail Price Index for selected product groups, 2008-10
News Analysis
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- Bakers (retail)
- Thorntons posts profit increase
- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-op Group reviewing media account
- Grocers
- Asda
- … and Sainsbury's launch youth training initiatives
- … bosses seek to tackle "boring" performance
- … LFLs up 6% in 2009
- Morrisons profit boosted by new stores
- Tesco
- … extends double Clubcard points offer
- … Tesco launches Couture clothing range
- Waitrose
- … joins forces with Delia and Heston
- … targets £10bn sales
- Clothing retailing
- TJX Europe FY like-for-likes rise 5%
- Tommy Hilfiger sold for $3bn
- Adili sold for £1
- Agent Provocateur appoints Winser as new chairman
- Alexon plots £20m cash call
- Austin Reed reports tough year
- Fat Face owner injects £8.5m fresh capital
- French Connection losses widen
- J Crew enters UK after deal with Net-a-Porter
- Matalan
- … considers refinancing
- … founder could receive £250m amid refinancing
- Moss Bros chairman steps down
- Mulberry reveals strong FY trading
- New Look board mulls IPO withdrawal
- Primark sales up 8%
- Suits You CVA successful
- SuperGroup
- … seeks to raise £125m
- … confirms IPO details
- … IPO expected to be oversubscribed
- Whistles suffers £5m loss in 2008
- Michels rules himself out of M&S chairman role
- River Island aims for slice of childrenswear market
- US: Gap plots new shopping website and Italian entry
- Mixed goods retailing
- Poundland
- … owner Advent mulls sale
- … announces bullish expansion plans
- … founder to launch mid-market variety chain
- Home Bargains in £25m expansion drive
- Multi-sector retailing
- Home Retail Group LFLs down 9.4%
- Books and stationery retailing
- Card Factory founders poised for £400m windfall
- Department stores
- Debenhams sales up 1.7%
- House of Fraser
- … announces partnership with Retail Arabia
- … outlines expansion plans
- John Lewis
- … combines store and online retailing
- … posts 9.7% profit rise
- Liberty
- … mulls freehold sale of London flagship store
- … poised for sale
- DIY retailing
- Kingfisher sales hit the buffers
- Travis Perkins profits down 11%
- Electrical retailing
- Best Buy circles Homebase stores
- Furniture retailing
- DFS poised for £500m sale
- Habitat makes redundancies to re-establish growth
- Home shopping
- Richemont makes Net-a-Porter bid
- Flying Brands profit up
- N Brown to launch plus-size menswear
- Health and beauty retailing
- Alliance Boots considers click-and-collect deals with rivals
- The Body Shop posts robust results
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Blacks
- … adjourns EGM after Sports Direct buys stake
- … begins store expansion
- … to ask for deadline for Sports Direct bid
- … circled by Halfords
- Sports Direct
- … blocks Blacks' fund raising and mulls bid
- … eyes Blacks Leisure stake
- … retails sales rise 9%
- … succeeds in Blacks stake purchase
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Halfords
- … buys car servicing company
- … ponders £30m Blacks Leisure bid
- HobbyCraft attracts more suitors
- Economics
- BRC: Retail sales rebound in February
- London retail LFLs up 9.9%
- ONS: Retail sales down 1.8%
- Scottish retailers suffer poor January sales
E-commerce in Europe
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- E-commerce infrastructure
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- Figure 13: Europe: Broadband access, by country, 2009
- E-commerce shoppers
- Numbers of shoppers
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- Figure 14: Europe: Consumers shopping online for goods and services in the last year, 2006-09
- Figure 15: Europe: Number of online shoppers by country, 2009
- What products and services they buy
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- Figure 16: Europe: Products and services purchased online, by country, 2009
- E-commerce spending
- Market size
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- Figure 17: Europe: E-commerce market size by country, 2009
- Spend per capita
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- Figure 18: Europe: E-commerce spend per head of total population, by country, 2009
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- Figure 19: Europe: Estimated e-commerce spend per head of online shopping population, 2009
- Online retail sales
- Sector size and trends
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- Figure 20: Europe: Estimated online retail sales by country, 2005-09
- Online sales per capita
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- Figure 21: Europe: Estimated online retail sales per head of total population, 2009
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- Figure 22: Europe: Estimated online retail sales per head of online shopping population, 2009
- Online retail – sales forecasts and outlook
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- Figure 23: Europe: Retail e-commerce sales estimates and forecasts, by country, 2009 and 2014
- Leading retailers
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- Figure 24: Europe: Top 10 e-commerce retailers, 2008
Amazon.com Inc
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- Strategic evaluation
- History
- Financial performance
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- Figure 25: Amazon.com Inc: Group financial performance, 2005-09
- Retail offering
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- Figure 26: Amazon.com Inc: Sales mix, North America and International, 2008
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- Figure 27: Amazon.com: Dates of market entry
- Market positioning
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- Figure 28: Profile of Amazon UK online customers, Nov 2009-Jan 2010
- Pricing
- Third party sellers
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