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Analyst Comment
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- Refurbishing the store estate
- Carrefour
- New stores are not enough
- Keeping track of the customer base
- Leclerc
- Customers becoming more demanding
European Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 1: Major European economies: Year on year retail sales value growth, 2012-13
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- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2012-13
- Inflation
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2012-13
- Figure 4: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2012-13
Luxury Goods Retailing
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- Prada Group
- What we think
- Prada brand soars in 2012 – but the group sees a slowing trend
- Asian growth proves volatile
- Increasingly focused on Prada brand and leather goods
- The Prada brand is popular among mid-market shoppers
- Intellectual property strategy
- A recent convert to e-commerce
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 5: Prada: Group financial performance, 2008/09-2012/13
- Figure 6: Prada: Group net revenue breakdown, by channel, 2009/10-2012/13
- Figure 7: Prada: Group net revenue breakdown, by region, 2009/10-2012/13
- Customer profile
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- Figure 8: UK: Brand profile, by gender, age, and socio-economic group, May 2013
- e-commerce and social media
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Department stores
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Home shopping
- Health and beauty retailing
News Analysis
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- Co-ops
- UK: Co-op
- …sees fall in first half profits
- …to launch online grocery website
- Convenience stores
- UK: Waitrose adds 10 convenience stores to London portfolio
- Grocers
- Austria: Lidl Austria appoints new managing director
- Belgium: Delhaize Group hires new CEO
- Europe: Ahold
- …appoints new chief human resources officer
- …profits top estimates
- France: Auchan first-half sales rise
- France: Carrefour releases first half results
- France: Leclerc
- …abandons Coopernic
- …begins selling optical products
- Germany: Edeka South - West appoints new managing director
- Russian Federation: Dixy sees July sales rise 21%
- Russian Federation: Magnit sees growth in Europe
- UK: Asda
- …drops Saatchi & Saatchi
- …funds a retail degree for staff
- …hires VCCP for its advertising
- …offers online delivery pass to challenge rivals
- …records slow sales growth
- …store vision to rival Tesco Watford
- UK: Morrisons
- …and Argos sign up to personal marketing service
- …unveils Nutmeg TV ad
- UK: Sainsbury’s outpaces big four rivals
- UK: Tesco
- …and Next hit back at claims made about their labour sources
- …criticised by ASA over advert
- …ditches store as it listens to locals
- …to introduce till cash monitoring system
- UK: Waitrose
- …buys The Good Food Guide
- …proposes using GPS tracking for click-and-collect
- …to help young offenders
- Other food specialists
- UK: Harris + Hoole takes former Jessops sites
- UK: Countrywide eyes AIM listing as profits rise
- Off-licences
- UK: Conviviality Retail acquires Wine Rack
- Clothing retailing
- Europe: Stradivarius launches online store
- France: Esprit posts first annual loss
- France: Hermes sees rise in first-half profit
- Lithuania: H&M opens first store in Lithuania
- UK: Abercrombie & Fitch sales fall
- UK: Government demands use of plus size mannequins
- UK: Hanro signs for first UK store
- UK: Jane Norman to close Oxford Street store
- UK: Matalan to launch new sports fascia
- UK: McQueen sales high after royal dress success
- UK: New Look sees profits surge as like-for-like sales edge up
- UK: Peacocks to sell kids clothing in garden centres
- UK: Primark
- …owner raises profit expectations
- …to end online trial
- UK: River Island returns to Singapore
- UK: Six retailers to open stores in Canary Wharf’s Jubilee palace
- UK: SuperGroup's positive sales reflect “enduring appeal”
- UK: Taking Shape to enter UK market
- UK: TK Maxx to open new store in Covent Garden
- UK: Topshop to expand U.S. presence
- UK: Uniqlo launches children’s clothing range
- UK: Victoria’s Secret set to open Bluewater store
- Footwear retailing
- UK: LK Bennett owners consider sale
- Mixed goods retailers
- UK: B&M rewards buyers’ faith
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: Home Retail sees departure of Terry Duddy
- UK: Marks & Spencer
- …hires store environment chief
- …hit by glitches at distribution centre
- …increases its efforts to solve IT glitches
- …loses customer insight boss
- …trials new accessories department
- …launches new ‘leading ladies’ campaign
- Department stores
- Netherlands: Bijenkorf
- …shuts five stores leaving Primark to benefit
- …to restructure estate
- Spain: El Corte Inglés
- …offers Click & Car service
- …sees profits drop 18%
- UK: Debenhams
- …adds two new designers to roster
- …ups marketing activity with use of augmented reality
- UK: House of Fraser trials virtual queue system
- UK: John Lewis
- …insurance business part of new advertising campaign
- …to pay out £40 million to underpaid staff
- …labels electricity costs
- …sales up by 6.6%
- …to launch upmarket in-store restaurant
- UK: John Lewis
- …views an opening in Westfield London
- DIY retailing
- Germany: Praktiker to be broken up
- UK: B&Q makes 180 redundancies
- UK: Homebase launches first co-buying initiative
- UK: Kingfisher hires Marks & Spencer’s Plan A director to lead Net Positive Plan
- Electrical retailing
- Ireland: Carphone Warehouse and Harvey Norman in partnership
- UK: BrightHouse launches new payment model
- UK: Comet
- …to be re-launched under new name
- …Clive Coombes backtracks on Comet re-launch
- …former owner recoups £54 million
- …new Comet brand investigated by Deloitte
- UK: Dixons to sell off French and Turkish business arms
- Furniture retailing
- UK: Dreams hires new chief executive
- UK: Dwell’s creditors to receive no payout
- UK: Furniture retailers investigated by OFT
- UK: Jysk takes three former Dreams stores
- UK: The Range to open 5 new stores by 2016
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Brissi hires big names to its board
- UK: Cath Kidston sees rise in full year profits of 13%
- Home shopping
- Germany: Asos investor Bestseller takes stake in rival company
- UK: Amazon increases mobile app presence
- UK: Asos
- …hires new sourcing director
- …signs contract for management of distribution centre
- UK: Boohoo.com eyes float
- UK: Damartex aquires Coopers of Stortford
- UK: DRL steps up flotation plans
- UK: Figleaves.com to launch erotic boutique
- UK: Game eyes growth in online video game market
- UK: Girl Meets Dress receives venture capital funding
- UK: Richard Desmond moves into contract publishing with Very magazine
- UK: Tesco to launch iPad-style tablet
- Health and beauty retailing
- Europe: Celesio sees profits surge by over 50%
- UK: Boots boss Alex Gourlay to move to Walgreens
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: Card Factory to refinance following attempted sale
- UK: Staples launches back to school advertising campaign
- UK: WHSmith full-year profits “in line with expectations"
- Music retailing
- UK: HMV
- …creditors to lose £250 million
- …hires new director for its Pure loyalty programme
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: JD Sports looking to expand its Pro performance fascia
- UK: Sports Direct to enter FTSE 100
- Jewellers
- UK: Pandora to open largest global store in Oxford Street
- Toys and games retailing
- UK: ModelZone to leave the high street
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- UK: Go Outdoors sees rise in sales
- Economy
- UK: BRC releases retail sales figures
- UK: Retailers could face business rates increases of £300 million
- UK: Scottish sporting successes boost retail sales in July
- UK: Shop prices fall 0.5% due to discounting in stores
- UK: UK retail sales jump 1.1% in July
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