Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- Groceries Code Adjudicator
- Supplier relations
- Customers have benefited
- Will it work?
- Do we need it?
Headlines for the Month
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- Food retailers
- Clothing retailers
- Mixed goods
- Multi-sector
- Department stores
- DIY
- Electricals
- Carpet retailing
- Furniture retailing
- Home shopping
- Health and beauty
- Books and stationery
- Sports and leisure
- Miscellaneous
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Key points
- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends, 2009-10
- BRC and ONS out of line - again
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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, 2009-10
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 4: RPI vs Average weekly earnings growth, 2008-10
- The RPI eases back
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for selected product groups, 2009-10
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Food Retailers
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 6: Food retailers, sales trends, 2001-10
- Figure 7: Food retailers as % of all retail sales, 2000-10
- Subsectors
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- Figure 8: Breakdown of food retailers’ sales by sub-sector, 2005-10 H1
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 9: Indices of retail prices for key product categories, 2005-10
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 10: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 2005-10 (Q1)
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- Figure 11: Food retailers sales relative to all spending on food and drink, 2000-09
- Leading Food retailers
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- Figure 12: Food retailers: Leading retailers’ share of food retailers’ sales, 2008/09
News Analysis
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- Bakers (retail)
- Hotel Chocolat raises £3.7 million in chocolate bonds
- Thorntons suffers further sales woe
- Grocers
- Aldi founder Theo Albrecht dies
- Fidelity buys Ocado stake
- Ocado hits out at funding claims
- Government creates new supermarket adjudicator
- Sainsbury's
- …to roll out 'eco-friendly' milk bags
- …trials prescription vending machines
- Tesco launches £140 million Clubcard promotion
- Clothing retailing
- Alexon appoints commercial director
- Arcadia relaunches all of its fashion sites
- Aurora
- …appoints new MDs at Coast and Oasis
- …posts £23 million profit
- Fly53 to open 26 stores
- Matalan LFLs up 3%
- Primark
- …appoints Lyttle as new COO
- …to open second Oxford Street store
- Select looking to expand
- SuperGroup posts strong results
- Topshop to open Tokyo flagship store
- USC uses website to sell overseas
- Zara returns to profit
- LK Bennett to launch in the US
- Footwear retailing
- Jones Bootmaker up for sale
- Mixed goods retailing
- Argos trials same day delivery
- Mothercare
- …buys 25% stake in franchisee
- …UK sales down 2.6%
- Wilkinson profits soar 120%
- Multi-sector retailing
- Alliance Boots takes stake in Turkish company
- Fopp to open store in Waterstone's outlet
- HMV launches digital music service
- M&S
- …appoints new CFO
- …sells school uniforms for overweight kids
- …starts student initiative
- Next
- …brand Lipsy to broaden offer
- …sales rise 1.3%
- Department stores
- Beales buys new department store
- Debenhams
- …completes refinancing
- …mulls sale and leaseback deals
- Harvey Nichols profit increases
- DIY retailing
- Kingfisher cost cuts aid results
- Robert Dyas back in black
- Topps Tiles sales decline slows
- Travis Perkins profits up 18.6%
- Electrical retailing
- BrightHouse LFLs up 10.7%
- Carphone Warehouse posts sales rise
- Dixons
- …scraps some own brands to streamline offer
- …and Phones 4U form partnership
- Carpet retailing
- Carpetright Q1 sales drop
- United Carpets FY profits soar
- Furniture retailing
- DFS appoints new chief
- Habitat hires Waldron as retail director
- Mark Elliot rescued from administration
- Homewares retailing
- Dunelm FY revenue climbs 18.2%
- Home shopping
- Asos sales surge 54%
- Findel
- …losses widen
- …sells CWIO division
- Flying Brands profit down
- Shop Direct losses narrow
- Health and beauty retailing
- Superdrug plots new TV ad campaign
- The Body Shop posts steady results
- The Fragrance Shop posts LFLs increase
- The Perfume Shop trials Superdrug link-up
- Books and stationery retailing
- Borders sells Paperchase for $31 million
- The Works to be sold for £80 million
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Blacks LFLs down 7.5%
- JJB shareholder ups stake
- Sports Direct posts strong results
- Trespass plans major expansion
- Luxury goods retailing
- Burberry
- …buys 50 stores for £70 million
- …sales up 24%
- Garden centres
- Dobbies posts FY profit increase
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Halfords posts mixed results
- Jessops targets return to profit
- Economy
- BRC: July retail sales hit by economic uncertainty
- CBI: Retail sales up in July
- London retail sales climb 14.4% in June
- Retail sales improve in June, says ONS
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