Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- A tale of two games
- Difficulties in the UK
- Another way
- The need for direction
Headlines for the Month
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- Food retailers
- Clothing retailers
- Department stores
- DIY stores
- Furniture retailing
- Home shopping
- Health and beauty
- Economy
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
European Food Retailing
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- Market in brief
- Light at the end of some tunnels
- Food retailers hard hit
- Leading players
- Rationalisation
- Hard discounters
- Expansion
- Market shares
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- Figure 13: Europe: Leading retailers market shares, 2009
Edeka Group
News Analysis
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- Grocers
- Belgium: Colruyt meets first half targets
- Belgium: Delhaize
- …Group sees sales growth
- …keeps 2010 expectations as US improves
- Bulgaria: Lidl opens first Bulgarian stores
- Denmark: Dansk Supermarked sales rise 3%
- France: Carrefour
- …considers sale of Dia
- …to test two convenience formats
- …Brazilian operations' charges rise
- France: Casino to buy Carrefour's Thai assets for €868m
- Germany: Edeka introduces cash handling system
- Germany: Rewe Group focuses on retailing, travel and tourism
- Latvia: Maxima to give 2m litas in reimbursement for rising prices
- Russian Federation: X5 acquires Kopeyka
- UK: Asda
- …third quarter sales up
- …to create 7,500 new jobs
- UK: Co-op's £200m Christmas promotion
- UK: Marks & Spencer
- …and Waitrose gain food sales
- …achieves 70 of its Plan A targets
- UK: Morrisons denies rumours of Ocado bid
- UK: Sainsbury's
- …blow as seniors defect
- …sees busiest day of the year at new space
- …to open six food colleges
- UK: Tesco
- …strong third quarter growth
- …considers drive-thru launch at dotcom-only stores
- UK: Waitrose
- …sales up 10.6%
- …sees 'busiest day ever' despite snow
- …weekly sales up 11%
- Off-licences
- UK: Majestic profits rise 20%
- Clothing retailing
- Croatia: NKD expands in Croatia
- Denmark: IC Companys to reorganise brands
- Europe: TJX Europe slows expansion as third quarter profits fall 20%
- Germany: KiK to open 200 new stores each year
- Italy: Benetton 9-month net profit +5.5%
- Sweden: H&M
- …October sales in line
- …reaches predicted revenue targets
- UK: Alexon Group like-for-likes up 0.4%
- UK: Arcadia profits rise 6.4%
- UK: Burberry first-half profit up
- UK: Cortefiel prepares for international expansion
- UK: New Look gains Ex-Selfridges marketing boss
- UK: Fat Face reduce markdowns with product overhaul
- UK: Forever 21 opens its first UK store
- UK: French Connection like-for-like sales drop 6.1%
- UK: Gap
- …and Valentino collaboration launches tomorrow
- …international sales up 3% in third quarter
- UK: H&M Lanvin collection launches today
- UK: Moss Bros reports strong sales
- UK: Mulberry interim profits rise
- UK: New Look like-for-likes fall
- UK: Primark
- …Lakeside extends
- …Oxford Street store sets sales record
- UK: Suits You chain to be shut down
- UK: Ted Baker sales rise
- UK: TK Maxx to launch two new stores
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Barratts restructures management team
- UK: Office is closer to £150m deal with Silverfleet
- Multi-sector retailing
- Belgium: Colruyt meets first half targets
- Germany: Zooplus etail sales rise
- Sweden: Bergendahl's full year profits drop
- UK: Mothercare doubles international sales target
- UK: Poundland looking to go online
- UK: Richemont beats expectation with strong October growth
- Department stores
- Netherlands: Ahold only buyer left for Hema and has its doubts
- Netherlands: Maxeda sells off de Bijenkorf to Selfridges
- UK: Ex-Selfridges marketing boss joins New Look board
- UK: Fortnum & Mason reports first profit in six years
- UK: John Lewis
- …reports weekly sales of £100m
- …sees seasonal sales push up results
- …plans to launch in Middle East
- …sees record online and bumper Saturday sales
- UK: Johnlewis.com sales up 52%
- UK: Selfridges' footwear sales rise
- DIY retailing
- Germany: OBI launches online offer
- UK: Focus in talks about store disposal
- UK: Kingfisher reports third quarter retail profit up 8.2%
- UK: Topps Tiles profits down for the fifth year running
- Electrical retailing
- France: PPR appoints new chief executive
- UK: Comet suffers further losses
- UK: Dixons cuts interim losses
- UK: Game like-for-likes down
- UK: HMV like-for-likes fall 16% and losses widen
- UK: Phones4U deal likely to be below £700m
- Furniture retailing
- Europe: Permira looks to work with But to buy Conforama
- UK: Cath Kidston plans Far East as profits up
- Other specialist retailers
- UK: Halfords
- …launches transactional mobile site
- …profits up, like-for-like sales down
- Home shopping
- France: Redcats acquires French plus-size etailer
- Italy: Amazon launches Italian site
- UK: Amazon imports Black Friday promotion to UK
- UK: EBay takes record sales on Super Sunday
- UK: Groupon tempts Google with bargains
- UK: The Hut Group acquires Lookfantastic Group
- Health and beauty retailing
- Estonia: Watsons will leave Estonia despite strong country growth
- Germany: Celesio
- …retains full year outlook after third quarter profit rise
- …suffers from spending cuts with full year profits
- Hungary: Schlecker to leave Hungary
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: Hobbycraft doubles profits
- UK: WH Smiths sales fall
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: JD Sports
- …set to open first store in France
- …recruits former Republic boss
- UK: JJB Sports
- …issues profit warning
- …increasing debt
- …warns it may breach debt facilities
- Jewellers
- UK: Signet sees strong third quarter performance
- Economy
- Europe: Consumer confidence down in the UK but up for the rest of Europe
- Europe: EU consumer confidence at high
- Germany: Germany retailers expect biggest Christmas sales
- Latvia: Latvian VAT rate rise in 2011
- UK: £250m for London shops on traffic free day
- UK: BRC – retail sales still growing
- UK: British Chamber of Commerce lowers growth expectations
- UK: OFT warns retailers as shoppers lose out on 'billions' because of deceitful marketing
- UK: ONS: Retail sales rising
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