Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- Deichmann – role model for the recovery
- Robust sector
- Thrifty consumers
- Deichmann leads the way
Headlines for the Month
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- Food retailers
- Clothing retailers
- Multi-sector
- Department stores
- DIY
- Electricals
- Health and beauty
- Luxury goods
Retail Sales Review
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- Key points
- France
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- Figure 1: France: Retail sales trends, 2009-10
- 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, 2009-10
- 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, 2009-10
News Analysis
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- Bakers (retail)
- UK: Hotel Chocolat raises £3.7 million in chocolate bonds
- UK: Thorntons suffers further sales woe
- Grocers
- Belgium: Colruyt enjoys strong start to 2010
- Estonia: Maxima continues to struggle
- France: Carrefour sales up in Q2
- France: Casino Q2 sales up 8.5%
- Germany: Aldi
- …exits Greece
- …founder Theo Albrecht dies
- Latvia: Lenta announces expansion plans
- Netherlands: Jumbo Supermarkets enjoys positive Q1
- Portugal: Jeronimo Martins Q2 profit improves
- Russian Federation: Magnit reports Q2 sales boost
- Russian Federation: Seventh Continent sales up 15%
- Sweden: Axfood Q2 results show improvement
- UK: Fidelity buys Ocado stake
- UK: Ocado hits out at funding claims
- UK: Government creates new supermarket adjudicator
- UK: Sainsbury's
- …to roll out 'eco-friendly' milk bags
- …trials prescription vending machines
- UK: Tesco launches £140m Clubcard promotion
- Clothing retailing
- Italy: Benetton H1 profit rises
- Spain: Mango announces bullish expansion plans
- Sweden: H&M reports June sales improvement
- UK: Alexon appoints commercial director
- UK: Arcadia relaunches all of its fashion sites
- UK: Aurora
- …appoints new MDs at Coast and Oasis
- …posts £23 million profit
- UK: Fly53 to open 26 stores
- UK: Matalan LFLs up 3%
- UK: Primark
- …appoints Lyttle as new COO
- …to open second Oxford Street store
- UK: Select looking to expand
- UK: SuperGroup posts strong results
- UK: Topshop to open Tokyo flagship store
- UK: USC uses website to sell overseas
- UK: Zara returns to profit
- UK: LK Bennett to launch in the US
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Jones Bootmaker up for sale
- Mixed goods retailing
- UK: Argos trials same day delivery
- UK: Mothercare
- …buys 25% stake in franchisee
- …UK sales down 2.6%
- UK: Wilkinson profits soar 120%
- Multi-sector retailing
- Germany: Metro Group posts solid H1 results
- Italy: Gruppo Coin buys 54 stores
- UK: Alliance Boots takes stake in Turkish company
- UK: Fopp to open store in Waterstone's outlet
- UK: HMV launches digital music service
- UK: M&S
- …appoints new CFO
- …sells school uniforms for overweight kids
- …starts student initiative
- UK: Next
- …brand Lipsy to broaden offer
- …sales rise 1.3%
- Department stores
- Finland: Stockmann posts soild Q2 results
- UK: Beales buys new department store
- UK: Debenhams
- …completes refinancing
- …mulls sale and leaseback deals
- UK: Harvey Nichols profit increases
- DIY retailing
- Germany: Praktiker sales down 5.8%
- UK: Kingfisher cost cuts aid results
- UK: Robert Dyas back in black
- UK: Topps Tiles sales decline slows
- UK: Travis Perkins profits up 18.6%
- Electrical retailing
- Russian Federation: M.Video enjoys strong Q2
- UK: BrightHouse LFLs up 10.7%
- UK: Carphone Warehouse posts sales rise
- UK: Dixons
- …scraps some own brands to streamline offer
- …and Phones 4U form partnership
- Carpet retailing
- UK: Carpetright Q1 sales drop
- UK: United Carpets FY profits soar
- Furniture retailing
- UK: DFS appoints new chief
- UK: Habitat hires Waldron as retail director
- UK: Mark Elliot rescued from administration
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Dunelm FY revenue climbs 18.2%
- Home shopping
- UK: Asos sales surge 54%
- UK: Findel
- …losses widen
- …sells CWIO division
- UK: Flying Brands profit down
- UK: Shop Direct losses narrow
- Health and beauty retailing
- Belgium: Omega Pharma Q2 results disappoint
- Russian Federation: 36.6 sees revenue fall
- UK: Superdrug plots new TV ad campaign
- UK: The Body Shop posts steady results
- UK: The Fragrance Shop posts LFLs increase
- UK: The Perfume Shop trials Superdrug link-up
- Books and stationery retailing
- UK: Borders sells Paperchase for $31 million
- UK: The Works to be sold for £80 million
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Blacks LFLs down 7.5%
- UK: JJB shareholder ups stake
- UK: Sports Direct posts strong results
- UK: Trespass plans major expansion
- Luxury goods retailing
- France: Hermes sales improve
- UK: Burberry
- …buys 50 stores for £70 million
- …sales up 24%
- Garden centres
- UK: Dobbies posts FY profit increase
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- UK: Halfords posts mixed results
- UK: Jessops targets return to profit
- Economy
- UK: BRC: July retail sales hit by economic uncertainty
- UK: CBI: Retail sales up in July
- UK: London retail sales climb 14.4% in June
- UK: Retail sales improve in June, says ONS
Footwear Retailing
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- Retail sales forecasts
- Outlook for footwear retailing
- Market size and performance
- The European competitive landscape
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- Figure 13: Europe: Leading footwear specialists’ market shares, 2008-09
- Deichmann
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- Figure 14: Deichmann: Estimated share of German footwear specialists sales, 2005-09
- Strategic evaluation
- Recent history
- Financial performance
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- Figure 15: Deichmann: Sales performance, 2005-09
- Store portfolio
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- Figure 16: Deichmann: Outlet data, 2010
- Retail offering
- e-commerce and home shopping
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