Table of Contents
The Impending Scrap in the Electricals Market
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- Best Buy won’t find the UK market a push over
- Why the Fuss?
- Weak local players
- Now all that has changed
- And PC World?
- Competition is good for the sector
Headlines of the Month
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- Food retailers
- Clothing
- Mixed goods
- Multi-sector
- Department stores
- DIY
- Electricals
- Carpet retailers
- Home shopping
- Miscellaneous
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends, 2009-10
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- Figure 2: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2008-10
- John Lewis
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- Figure 3: John Lewis: Year-on-year growth, 2008-10
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 4: RPI vs Wage rate growth, 2008-10
- The RPI up again
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in Retail Price Index for selected product groups, 2009-10
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Mixed Goods
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 6: Mixed goods retailers relative to all retail sales, 1999-2009
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- Figure 7: Mixed goods retailers, sales trends, 2000-09
- Retail price inflation
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 8: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories (£m), 2005-09
- Leading retailers
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- Figure 9: Mixed goods retailers – Leading players, 2008/09
News Analysis
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- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-operative Group profits boosted by acquisitions
- Grocers
- Asda offers top executives early pay to avoid 50% tax
- Bond stands down as Asda chief executive
- Sainsbury's
- …sales up 4.4% in Q4
- …launches Nectar credit cards
- Tesco launches Couture clothing range
- Waitrose circles EAT
- Off-licences
- Oddbins reports strong sales
- Clothing retailing
- Tommy Hilfiger sold for $3 billion
- Alexon raises £20.3 million through capital raising
- Ann Summers to expand its brand
- Ben Sherman posts FY loss
- French Connection losses widen
- Matalan completes refinancing
- Monsoon sees profits rise eight-fold
- Moss Bros chairman steps down
- Phase Eight receives bid approaches
- River Island chief steps down
- Ted Baker profits rise 3.6%
- Footwear retailing
- LK Bennett sees sales surge
- Mixed goods retailing
- Mothercare sales dented by bad weather
- Poundland announces bullish expansion plans
- Multi-sector retailing
- Laura Ashley profit up 7.8%
- M&S
- …Q4 LFLs up 5.1%
- …unveils new ad strategy
- Next profits climb 18%
- Department stores
- Stockmann unaware of Debenhams bid rumours
- Debenhams
- …posts £114.5 million profit
- Harrods not for sale, says Fayed
- House of Fraser outlines expansion plans
- John Lewis launches new department to tempt international shoppers
- Liberty posts EBITDA increase
- DIY retailing
- Kingfisher FY profits surge 49%
- Wickes to trial new format
- Electricals retailing
- Best Buy to open first UK store in May
- DSG plans massive megastore roll-out
- Carpet retailing
- Carpetright issues profit warning
- Furniture retailing
- DFS founder considers refinancing options
- Home shopping
- Findel chairman steps down
- Ideal Shopping posts profit after turnaround
- Ocado
- …FY sales up
- …to float after general election
- Play.com appoints new chief
- Richemont completes Net-a-Porter acquisition
- Health and beauty retailing
- Lush profits fall in 2009
- Books and stationery retailing
- Clinton Cards profits jump 29% in H1
- Card Factory to be sold to Charterhouse
- Music and DVD retailing
- HMV to extend product offering
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Ashley could raise £26 millions Blacks bid
- Blacks snubs Sports Direct takeover offer
- Sports Direct makes offer for Faith
- Jewellers
- Signet records solid FY results
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Halfords to close central Europe businesses
- Economy
- CBI: retail sales grow for second consecutive month
- London retail LFLs up 9.9%
- ONS: Retail sales rebound in February
- Scottish retail sales worst for 11 years
- UK retail sales up 6.6% in March
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