This report series covers the 19 leading economies of Western Europe. In total these countries account for around 95% of all European retail sales, excluding Russia. The remaining ten countries are either too small (e.g. Luxembourg) or are not sufficiently well developed to warrant detailed coverage (e.g. Romania and Bulgaria) in this report. These developing countries plus Russia and Turkey are covered in Mintel’s European Retail Handbook 2011/12 – September 2012 and the report, Retailing in Emerging Markets – July 2011.

This data in its entirety is contained in this single copy 19-country report, which gives a full overview of clothing retailing in Europe. Single country reports are also available for the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

This report concentrates on ‘clothing specialists’, as defined below and used by national statistics offices across Europe, such as H&M, Grupo Inditex, Arcadia and C&A. But, as noted above, we include coverage of non-specialist sectors in various sections of the report.

The definition in European countries is that used for the NACE category 47.71: Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores, including fur and accessories such as ties, braces, gloves etc.

The report covers:

Consumer spending on clothing

Retail sales

Retail forecast for 5 years

Market shares

Channels of distribution

Clothing specialists sector sales

Trends in inflation